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MetaMAUS by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £25.00£18.88VISUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY RICH, TAKE A LOOK INSIDE ART SPIEGELMAN'S MODERN CLASSIC, MAUS'If you are serious about comics or the Holocaust, this book should be on your shelf' San Francisco Book ReviewMAUS is widely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of... -
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine Will Loxley 9781474615709
RRP: £20.00£12.05'An army of bitchy, backstabbing, rivalrous literary greats inhabit this energetic history... Loxley's voice is energetic and enthused' The Times'I enjoyed being transported, through Loxley's vignettes, to various corners of London...Loxley's first... -
Daphne Du Maurier's Cornwall by Bret Hawthorne
RRP: £14.99£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857040466Author Bret HawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia Robert Macklin 9781472140692
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources Niall Christie (Langara College, Canada) 9781138543119
RRP: £27.99£27.38Muslims and Crusaders combines chronological narrative, discussion of important areas of scholarly enquiry and evidence from Islamic primary sources to give a well-rounded survey of Christianity's wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382. Revised, expanded and... -
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £12.00£8.44The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous... -
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia 9780715653050
RRP: £16.99£12.07Winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History (American Historical Association). Award-winning historian Priya Satia presents a new history of the Industrial Revolution that positions war and the gun trade squarely at the heart of the rapid... -
The Pattern: The 33rd Regiment and the British Infantry Experience During the American Revolution, 1770-1783 by Robbie MacNiven
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511893Author Robbie MacNivenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
T.H. Green by John Morrow 9781138620759
RRP: £19.99£17.69This volume collects a range of the most important published critical essays on T.H. Green's political philosophy. These essays consider Green's ethical and political philosophy, his accounts of freedom, rights, political obligation and property and the... -
Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber by Tony Blackman
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape instantly recognisable as is the howling noise it makes when the engines are opened for take-off... -
Edward Elgar and His World by Professor Byron Adams 9780691134468
RRP: £32.00£25.16Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and... -
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine by Anne Van Arsdall 9780367753771
RRP: £35.99£31.69Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has... -
The Anne Lister Walk by Christopher Goddard
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450226Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher Goddard -
Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum
RRP: £26.99£23.20An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and... -
Why History Matters by John Tosh
£19.16Does history matter? Is it anything more than entertainment? And if so, what practical relevance does it have? In this fully revised second edition of a seminal text, John Tosh persuasively argues that history is central to an informed and critical... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £25.99£24.56"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
RRP: £20.00£14.69LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for... -
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard 9780814794623
RRP: £24.99£21.67Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been... -
The United States Of Absurdity by Dave Anthony
RRP: £12.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578755Author Dave AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £25.99£15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097681Author Eddie JakuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPublisher Harper -
Norway's Knitted Heritage: The History, Surprises, and Power of Traditional Nordic Sweater Patterns by Annemor Sundbø 9780764366154
RRP: £54.99£48.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764366154Author Annemor SundboFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Schiffer CraftPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 2177g -
Victorian Fashion by Jayne Shrimpton
RRP: £9.99£7.67The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century... -
America's War For The Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780553393958Author Andrew J. BacevichFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House... -
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by Simon Ings
RRP: £12.99£8.56LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime - but also through... -
The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023 by Daniel Bedrosian 9781538183427
RRP: £38.00£32.20George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) stands as one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history, with an impressively large discography, enormous number of members, and long history. For the first time, this... -
Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125-1325 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany - the Holy Roman Empire - saw the creation of the defensive... -
Who Owns Ireland: The Hidden Truth of Land Ownership in Ireland by Kevin Cahill 9780750984454
RRP: £20.00£15.04It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on 'the dark edge of Europe'. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850... -
The Bronze Lie by Myke Cole
RRP: £15.99£11.61Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess - but was this... -
Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World Mairin MacCarron 9781032088945
RRP: £39.99£35.06Awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021The Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, and his extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus (dating of Easter and... -
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence 9780345466273
RRP: £7.99£4.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466273Author Jerome LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Harley Hitch and the Fossil Mystery by Vashti Hardy 9780702323430
RRP: £7.99£5.82In this third book in the series, Harley goes on a time-twisting adventure! On a school trip to the Inventia Jurassic Coast, Harley finds an unusual fossil. Has she discovered an entirely new species of dinosaur? ... -
Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany by Dagmar Herzog
RRP: £35.00£28.74What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics? Were they repressive for everyone, or were some... -
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East by David Stahel
RRP: £24.99£20.94Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its... -
Nine Lives: The Engrossing Memoir of a Cold War Harrier Pilot by Chris Burwell
RRP: £25.00£18.02Chris Burwell charts one man's career in aviation from joining the RAF in 1969 aged 18, to having responsibility for training pilots for the world's major airlines nearly 50 years later. After training at RAF Cranwell and RAF Valley and a tour as a... -
The Mamluks: Slave Warriors of Medieval Islam by John Brunton 9781398107342
RRP: £22.99£15.58From humble beginnings as slaves in Egypt, the Mamluks trained as soldiers and rose in status to seize control of the largest empire in Islam. They ruled over Egypt and Syria for over two centuries. They saved the region from devastation by the Mongols... -
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by David Blackbourn
RRP: £40.00£30.82With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a... -
Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers 1945-91 by Mark Stille
RRP: £11.99£8.43A history of the enduring Essex-class ships, the US Navy's finest and most numerous fleet carrier during World War II, which were modernized repeatedly and served with distinction. The Essex class was the USN's war-winning ship class of the Pacific... -
Battle Book of Ypres by Beatrix Brice 9781473821231
£25.09Of the many hard-fought battles on the Western Front, Ypres stands out as an example of almost inhuman endeavour. For four long years it was the focal point of desperate fighting. Officially there were four main battles in 1914, 1915, 1917 and 1918;... -
The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron
RRP: £16.99£14.61An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War... -
Hockley: Britain in Old Photographs by David Harvey 9780752447216
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating collection of photographs, including many rare and old images (some from as early as 1865) explores Hockley over the past century and a half, and details the social, architectural and functional changes in the area. With sections on...