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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab
RRP: $33.13$27.50*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost... -
Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines by Shaw, W B Kennedy 9781399092050
RRP: $58.40$21.35During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert. This small,... -
The Underground Village by Kyeong-ae Kang 9781915829054
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915829054Author Kyeong-ae KangFormat PaperbackImprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star -
Riflemen of Wellington s Light Division in the Peninsular War: Unpublished or Rare Accounts from the 95th Rifles 1808-14 by Gareth Glover 9781399087421
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Those Who Forget: One Family's Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning by Geraldine Schwarz
RRP: $21.43$14.70During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement... -
Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid by David Wragg
RRP: $19.48$11.99The daring British air raid that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.In November 1940 Britain was isolated in its stand against Nazi Germany and its ally, Italy. The country could not afford to lose control of the Mediterranean, but the Royal... -
The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America Robert Thurston (Miami University, USA) 9781405840835
RRP: $72.13$69.17Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was... -
The South Downs by Peter Brandon
RRP: $39.00$30.11The South Downs has throughout history been a focus of English popular culture. With chalkland, their river valleys and scarp-foot the Downs have been shaped for over millennia by successive generations of farmers, ranging from Europe's oldest... -
The Bomber War: A Ladybird Expert Book: Book 7 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: $17.53$12.97Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight against Nazi Germany.- How did aeroplane technology change the theatre of war?- How did the Blitz affect... -
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig 9781421446592
RRP: $88.73$81.00The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War.Finalist of the American Battlefield Trust Military History Book Prize, Winner of the Richard Barksdale Harwell AwardThe memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting... -
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney
RRP: $42.90$33.85The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the... -
Enemy Of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson 9780735211605
RRP: $48.73$32.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735211605Author Steven JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Churchill's German Special Forces: The Elite Refugee Troops who took the War to Hitler by Paul Moorcraft
RRP: $39.00$27.87The existence of German-speaking units fighting for the Allied cause during WW2 has remained largely a well-kept secret. But seventy-five years on these units' contribution to victory needs to be fully acknowledged. Prime Minister Winston Churchill... -
Elizabeth & Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens by Susan Doran 9780712353489
RRP: $78.00$55.79This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a major British Library exhibition, Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens brings new insights to the familiar... -
Wild Hope by Marisa Bate
RRP: $33.13$22.37Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of miles from home. Behind a carefree smile lies a... -
Churchill's Most Secret Airfield: RAF Tempsford by Bernard O'Connor
RRP: $33.13$23.95Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth - just after dusk on moonlit nights either side of the full moon, planes... -
Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton 9780141018317
RRP: $33.13$23.95On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian... -
A Jerusalem Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by T J Gorton
RRP: $23.38$19.11Jerusalem has a special status as a city that is both terrestrial and celestial. The name includes a cognate for 'peace, ' but the old stones of the city have witnessed epic bloodshed and destruction over the centuries. The three great monotheistic... -
Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens by Jane Whitaker
RRP: $78.00$59.55The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No... -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: $23.38$16.05What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast... -
Soviet Armoured Cars 1936-45 by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: $23.38$16.63The armoured car has an important place in the early history of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) - they were the most important AFV during the Russian Civil War and figured prominently in the mechanization of the Red Army that began in late 1929... -
The Great Tapestry of Scotland Colouring Book by Andrew Crummy
RRP: $17.53$12.25The Great Tapestry of Scotland is one of the most ambitious community arts projects ever undertaken. The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, it was created by a team of over a... -
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper 9780300119831
RRP: $42.90$41.38A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth... -
Panzer IV by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473856752
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the... -
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
RRP: $31.18$26.95A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the... -
Aircraft of World War II: Development, Weaponry, Specifications by Robert Jackson
RRP: $25.33$17.22Aircraft of World War II details the design and specifications of 75 of the most important warplanes used during the conflict, from the venerable Fairey Swordfish biplane, through legendary aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and Douglas C-47... -
The Pacer Family: End of an Era by Fred Kerr 9781526726933
RRP: $48.75$17.14In the 1980s British Railways sought a cheap replacement for the ailing Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) trainsets which saw the introduction of the Class 14x trainsets that became known as Pacers. These proved to be cheap to operate hence popular with the... -
Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales by Christine van Ruymbeke
RRP: $39.00$27.73The Shah Nameh (The Book of Kings), The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan (The Flower Garden) are amongst the greatest works of Persia, containing some of the most beautiful, rich and diverse language in the literary world. They rival Dante's Divine... -
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter
RRP: $35.08$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334502Author Rana MitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 133mm * 31mm -
The Viking Siege of Paris: Longships raid the Seine, AD 885-86 by Si Sheppard
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Vikings' siege of Paris in 885-86 was a turning point in the history of both Paris and France. In 885, a year after Charles the Fat was crowned King of the Franks, Danish Vikings sailed up the Seine demanding tribute. The Franks' refusal prompted the... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
RRP: $33.13$26.27A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
England's Forgotten Past: The Unsung Heroes and Heroines, Valiant Kings, Great Battles and Other Generally Overlooked Episodes in Our Nation's Glorious History by Richard Tames
RRP: $19.48$13.65Richard Tames, the well-known popularizer of English history, offers an entertaining exploration of the bits of English history that have been sidelined, lost or somehow overlooked. Written in an engaging, easy-to-read and often humorous style, Tames... -
Big Bangs by Howard Goodall
RRP: $25.33$18.21The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?What do we mean by "in tune"?Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard... -
Leyton & Leytonstone Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Alan Simpson 9780752449319
RRP: $31.18$24.24The once-peaceful villages of Leyton and Leytonstone have undergone a rapid transformation since the mid-nineteenth century. Both have grown from rural communities with farms and market gardens, to become suburban towns, eventually engulfed by the vast... -
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy by John Prevas
RRP: $48.75$28.59According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and made him swear eternal hatred of Rome. Whether the story is true or not, it is just one of hundreds of legends that have appeared over... -
Old Rutherglen Rhona Wilson 9781872074726
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074726Author Rhona WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 239mm * 6mm -
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474601948
RRP: $21.43$14.63The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the... -
Roman Gardens by Anthony Beeson
RRP: $31.18$21.16This book looks at the origins of ancient Roman garden design and its Greek influences. It includes the use and design of private domestic gardens as well as those connected to theatres and temples. Gardens connected to mausolea are also included. It... -
In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey by Barbara Toy
RRP: $25.33$16.97Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride.In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels in North Africa and Arabia, set out in her trademark Land Rover to drive from Libya to... -
Love Me Do! the Beatles' Progress by Michael Braun 9781631682711
RRP: $29.23$18.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631682711Author Michael BraunFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 15mm