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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North Robert Ferguson 9781781858950
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by a Norwegian - against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia... -
Shillelagh: The Irish Fighting Stick by John W Hurley
RRP: £19.95£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450538411Author John W HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
A Brief History of the Martial Arts: East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu Jonathan Clements 9781472136466
RRP: £14.99£9.80'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Clements' RICHARD BEITLICH, Martial History Team blogFrom Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a... -
A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe 9780486404882
RRP: £24.99£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404882Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Making Edwardian Costumes for Women by Suzanne Rowland
RRP: £25.00£20.70Edwardian fashions for women were characterized by the S-shaped silhouette, embellished with lace, tucks, ruffles, tassels, frills and flounces. This essential book includes eleven detailed projects, which form a capsule collection of clothing and... -
Beside the Sea: Britain's Lost Seaside Heritage by Sarah Freeman
£13.23From the Victorian era to the early years of the 1960s, Summer in Britain meant a mass exodus, as millions of Britons boarded steam locomotives and charabancs to swap the drudgery of life in the country's industrial heartlands for the fleeting pleasures... -
Longbowman vs Crossbowman: Hundred Years' War 1337-60 by David Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.95For centuries, the crossbow had played a key role on the battlefields of continental Europe, with mercenaries from Genoa and Brabant in particular filling the ranks of the French army, yet on the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War they came up against a... -
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen
RRP: £14.99£11.75Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: £25.00£20.92An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
The Illyrians by John Wilkes
RRP: £36.95£32.91For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now... -
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Fifth Edition by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £14.99£13.03As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's oldest and most civilized peoples, as "older brothers" to the younger Russian culture.Yet... -
Abandoned Places: Where time has stopped by Richard Happer
RRP: £16.99£11.87Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting in decay. Stories, facts and photographs... -
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage 9780802715524
RRP: £18.00£10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715524Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Walker & CompanyPublisher Walker & CompanyWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Lightbulb Moments in Human History - From Cave to Colosseum Scott Williams 9781803412009
RRP: £17.99£15.39Lightbulb Moments in Human History tracks humanity's big ideas and the eccentricities of those who conceived them. Along the way you'll find answers to questions such as: Why did the Sumerians have temple prostitutes? Just how psychotic was the God of... -
Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace by Julia Cooke
RRP: £16.99£11.58** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai **Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am... -
Gallipoli by L. A. Carlyon
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. Brief by his standards, but essentially heroic. Shakespeare might have seen it as a tragedy with splendid bit-parts for buffoons... -
The History of Tattooing by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly
RRP: £12.49£9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486468129Author Wilfrid Dyson HamblyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Enemy Of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson 9780735211605
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies 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 -
A History of Lincoln by Richard Gurnham
RRP: £22.50£16.79The earliest settlement beside the Brayford Pool was called Lindon, and this Celtic name was adopted by the Roman conquerors in the first century ad. e fortress established on the hill above the river Witham was later transformed into a provincial... -
Escape from Paris: A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France by Stephen Harding
RRP: £14.99£11.66Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and... -
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£8.13From the dawn of history to the death of Cleopatra, ancient Egypt was home to larger-than-life personalities. Across one hundred lives, Toby Wilkinson explores the true character and diversity of human experience in the ancient world's greatest... -
Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a Fifteenth-Century Art by Jessica Finley
£29.85In the Middle Ages, wrestling was practiced as both pastime and self-defense by every level of society - nobles, townsman and peasants alike - and was regarded as the foundation of all other martial arts. And no medieval wrestler's name looms as large as... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
RRP: £16.99£13.32A 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... -
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea Anthony Grafton 9780674030480
£28.08When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and... -
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslanyan 9781788162647
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white... -
Jaguar Boys: True Tales from the Operators of the Big cat in Peace and War by Ian Hall
RRP: £12.99£9.09Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone of the RAFs tactical strike-attack and recce forces for a decade from the mid-1970s... -
Around Bury St. Edmunds in Old Photographs: Britain In Old Photographs by Robert Halliday
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is a fascinating selection of images featuring the town of Bury St Edmunds along with many of its surrounding villages. Robert Halliday has collected together over 250 old photographs, and these, coupled with his informative captions, give an... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries, the elite of the field armies was the heavy armoured cavalry - the cataphracts, clad in lamellar, scale, mail and padded fabric armour. After the fall of the West, the Greek-speaking... -
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake J Harris 9780062276704
RRP: £19.99£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062276704Author Blake J HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Nein: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944 Paddy Ashdown 9780008257071
RRP: £9.99£6.64From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and... -
Letters of Note: War by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£4.84In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.Includes letters... -
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
RRP: £22.99£20.01In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and... -
The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between... -
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism Matt ffytche (Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK) 9781138793897
RRP: £46.99£40.97Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians and cultural theorists discuss landmark debates about the uses... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds
RRP: £16.99£11.27'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? ... -
Pharaoh: King of Egypt Margaret Maitland 9780714119984
RRP: £9.99£6.80The powerful image that the kings of Egypt presented to their subjects was so awe-inspiring and captivating that people today are still impressed by the compelling stories and imposing statuary of the Pharaoh. But the reality of Egyptian kingship was... -
Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sandra Boehringer
RRP: £36.99£32.53This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary,... -
Lyme Regis Past & Present by Jo Draper
RRP: £12.99£9.62Lyme Regis grew up as a medieval port, and re-invented itself as a seaside resort in the mid-eighteenth century. This book uses image picture collection at Lyme Regis Museum to illustrate the dramatic changes in the town and also the continuities. The... -
A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment Norena Shopland 9781526787675
RRP: £20.00£14.29Traditionally, historic women have been seen as bound by social conventions, unable to travel unless accompanied and limited in their ability to do what they want when they want. But thousands of women broke those rules, put on banned clothing and... -
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: £30.00£24.29"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities...