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O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins 9780671662417
£16.32An account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle.Book InformationISBN 9780671662417Author Larry CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Last Best Hope by George Packer
RRP: £14.99£9.53What happened to America? Is there still hope?We have arrived at a critical moment in American history. The United States is divided, its democracy is shaken. But all is not lost.The remarkable fruit of two decades of research, Last Best Hope is a... -
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents by Paul Brummell
RRP: £25.00£22.03Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as tokens of friendship, apology or authority; as taunts, bribes, boasts or tricks. They can also go wrong: Mali's 2013 gift of a camel to French President Francois... -
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack 9780199645183
£46.35Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people s appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what images they created, and how all this made people feel... -
A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire by Kevin Turton 9780752456782
RRP: £17.99£13.64A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire is a collection of stories from the county's past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre, but all equally absorbing. Revealed here are the dark corners of the county, where witches, body snatchers, highwaymen and... -
Main Street: Heart of Wexford by Nicky Rossiter 9780750987547
RRP: £16.99£12.94Wexford is one of the few towns or cities in Ireland where Main Street is still the main retail and commercial street of the town. In Dublin this honour goes to O'Connell and Grafton Street; in Cork it is Patrick Street; but in Wexford, Main Street is... -
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother Anne Sebba 9781780226620
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged,... -
Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 by Eamon Duffy
RRP: £22.50£19.35Personal prayer books and the jottings in their margins tell us about their owners and about life in late medieval and Reformation England In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the... -
A History of Zimbabwe by Alois S. Mlambo
RRP: £24.99£19.38The first single-volume history of Zimbabwe with detailed coverage from pre-colonial times to the present, this book examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and... -
Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by Sam Warner
RRP: £85.00£74.51Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried - and failed - to reform the system of industrial relations. Designed to tackle Britain's strike problem... -
Snifters at Tottering Hall by Annie Tempest
RRP: £15.99£11.05For nearly thirty years Annie Tempest has entertained 'Country Life' magazine readers with her weekly strip cartoon, Tottering-by-Gently, reaching much greater audiences worldwide through the associated merchandise, including book compilations such as... -
Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ Units by George Eleftheriou
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fully illustrated study of the Nakajima Ki49 'Helen', the twin-engined bomber of the Pacific War, from Japanese aviation expert George Eleftheriou. The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu ('Dragon Eater'), codenamed 'Helen' by the Allies, was a twin-engined... -
Mod Lib Valleys Of The Assassins by Freya Stark
RRP: £13.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757532Author Freya StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 257gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel by Paul Buhle 9781804293492
RRP: £12.99£11.60Under the Banner of King Death is a tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, bringing to life an itinerant community of outsiders behind today's legends. This graphic novel breaks new ground in our understanding of piracy and pirate culture,... -
The History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today Prof. Kenneth L. Campbell (Monmouth University, USA) 9781350260740
RRP: £27.99£24.44The History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural, and religious history of the British Isles. Kenneth Campbell explores the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and... -
Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present by Ben Kiernan 9780190053796
RRP: £25.99£17.53For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich... -
The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s by Joseph Egan
RRP: £14.99£11.74One of Hollywood's first scandals was nearly its last. 1936 looked like it would be a great year for the movie industry. With the economy picking up after the Great Depression, Americans everywhere were sitting in the dark watching the stars-and few... -
The European Witch-Hunt by Julian Goodare 9780415254533
RRP: £45.99£40.53The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North... -
A James Connolly Reader by Shaun Harkin
RRP: £16.99£12.07Considered by many to be Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression and imperialism. Active across the world, Connolly was a peerless organiser, sharp polemicist, and highly... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Germany: 2nd Edition by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.47Revised and expanded for Bolt Action 2nd Edition, this book provides players with all of the information they need to command Germany's military might. Detailed unit options and theatre selectors allow players to build armies for any of Germany's... -
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960 by Patrick William Otim 9780821411469
RRP: £27.99£24.14Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£11.62Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)-a summation of three and a half centuries of the... -
Doncaster Then & Now by Geoffrey Howse
RRP: £14.99£10.18Doncaster thrived during the Georgian period, and continued to grow as a railway town in the nineteenth century. As a consequence, it can boast a rich architectural history, the influence of which can still be seen and appreciated in the fabric of the... -
An Artilleryman in Stalingrad by Wigand Wuster
RRP: £30.00£24.32In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht. The short life expectancies of the Eastern Front made him a veteran commander even at that age. He led a battery in an artillery regiment as it approached Stalingrad... -
The Golden Age of Yorkshire Resorts 1800-1914 George Sheeran 9781398113459
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Yorkshire coast has been attracting holidaymakers for centuries. This book is the first to delve into the world of moneyed visitors to the county's seaside resorts, showing what attracted such people and why places like Scarborough, Filey and others... -
North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam by Susan T. Stevens
RRP: £58.95£47.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024088Author Susan T. StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £18.99£13.61This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
Cradley Heath, Old Hill & District: A Second Selection by Ron Moss
RRP: £12.99£9.62In this second selection of images of Cradley Heath, Old Hill and district, great use has been made of the marvellous old photographs that can be seen in, and are still being deposited at the Sandwell Community History & Archive Service collection in... -
English Local History: An Introduction Kate Tiller 9781783275243
RRP: £26.99£22.87The classic guide to exploring English local history, brought up to date and expanded. This is a book for anyone wanting to explore local history in England. It summarises, in an accessible and authoritative way, current knowledge and approaches,... -
Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker by Terry Breverton
RRP: £9.99£6.64The Wars of the Roses were a bitter and bloody dispute between the rival Plantagenet Houses of York and Lancaster. Only one man, Jasper Tudor, the Lancastrian half-brother to Henry VI, fought from the first battle at St Albans in 1455 to the last at... -
Secret Redcar, Marske and Saltburn by Colin Wilkinson
RRP: £15.99£10.85The town of Redcar and the resort of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, with the adjoining village of Marske-by-the-Sea, lie on an 8-mile stretch of the coast in north-east England. In this book author Colin Wilkinson reveals the stories behind how these once small... -
The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: £12.99£8.63In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The... -
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran Vol. 10 by Charles Melville
RRP: £26.99£23.84The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami... -
The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich
RRP: £13.99£9.09*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall... -
Insanitary City: Henry Littlejohn and the Condition of Edinburgh by Paul Laxton 9781859362204
RRP: £24.99£20.40Dr Henry Littlejohn's Report on the Sanitary Condition of Edinburgh (1865) was a landmark in urban management and public health administration. The Lancet described it as 'monumental'. The Report had a significance far beyond the boundaries of Edinburgh... -
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: £8.99£7.81Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of... -
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 by J.R. Maddicott
RRP: £31.49£29.84The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which began to meet in the reign of King AEthelstan, it... -
Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa by Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri 9780520390454
RRP: £25.00£19.59The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of... -
1014: Brian Boru & the Battle for Ireland Morgan Llywelyn 9781847175571
RRP: £11.99£9.00The date was Good Friday, April 23rd in the Year of Our Lord 1014. The most ferocious battle ever fought in Ireland was about to begin... In the three decades since Morgan Llyweyln wrote the bestselling novel Lion of Ireland, she has studied the... -
Attack State Red by Richard Kemp
RRP: £16.99£12.28What happened in Helmand's Sangin Valley in the spring of 2007 was nothing short of extraordinary. After the last gasp defence of the platoon houses by the Paras that preceded them in theatre, the soldiers of the Royal Anglian Regiment arrived in...