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Migrants: The Story of Us All Sam Miller 9781408713549
RRP: £25.00£14.66Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator'Timely and empathetic:... -
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
RRP: £36.49£32.33Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
Rome in the Ninth Century: A History in Art by John Osborne 9781009415378
RRP: £85.00£77.00Intended as a sequel to Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge, 2020), this survey of the material culture of the city of Rome spans the period from the imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the nadir of the fortunes of the Roman Church a century... -
Italian Armoured & Reconnaissance Cars 1911-45 by Filippo Cappellano
RRP: £11.99£8.43The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War... -
Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn 9780199372195
RRP: £42.99£32.03As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the... -
Britain in the 1950s: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times - Memories of a Post-War Decade by John Wade
RRP: £19.99£14.28The 1950s was the decade of the Queen's Coronation and the Festival of Britain; of family shops and pea-souper smogs; listening to the wireless and watching the box; when money was counted in pounds, shillings and pence and weights were in pounds and... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams
RRP: £14.99£9.70Viking Britain author Thomas Williams returns with a brief history of the interaction between the Vikings and the British to tell the story of the occupation of London. The Vikings remoulded the world, changed the... -
Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales by Christine van Ruymbeke
RRP: £20.00£13.75The 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... -
The Field of Cloth of Gold by Glenn Richardson
RRP: £15.99£13.82Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late... -
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire: Archaeology, History and the Decline of Rome by Neil Christie 9780340759660
£33.26The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and... -
Royal Tombs of Medieval England by Mark Duffy 9780752425795
RRP: £27.50£20.68This comprehensive and detailed survey of English royal tombs from 1066-1509, including junior royals as well as kings and queens, is combined with accounts of burial practice, tomb design, craftsmen, and construction.Book InformationISBN... -
Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 by Juan Jose Ponce Vazquez
RRP: £30.99£22.85Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes... -
Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction by Henrik Lagerlund
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influence of... -
Borodino Field 1812 & 1941: How Napoleon and Hitler Met Their Matches Outside Moscow by Robert Kershaw
RRP: £25.00£18.54The Battle of Borodino resonates with the patriotic soul of Mother Russia. The epic confrontation in September 1812 was the single bloodiest day of the Napoleonic Wars, leaving France's Grande Armee limping to the gates of Moscow and on to catastrophe in... -
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
RRP: £29.95£24.06"[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live."-Los Angeles Review of BooksThe definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and... -
Central Birmingham 1888: Warwickshire Sheet 14.05a by Barrie Trinder
£3.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844927Author Barrie TrinderImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present by Norman Davies
RRP: £57.00£48.75This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently... -
Central Liverpool by David Paul 9780752406404
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752406404Author David... -
Sog Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969 by Joe Parnar
RRP: £32.95£22.38The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States Special Forces unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War. The... -
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences by Nobutaka Ike
RRP: £66.00£57.33A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804703055Author Nobutaka IkeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl
RRP: £28.99£21.28In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North by Kate Fox
RRP: £9.99£6.64From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. ... -
Northfield Past & Present by Veronica Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book includes a fascinating selection of previously unseen photographs drawn from the collections of local residents. Northfield has a beautiful conservation area about which much has been written, but the authors, John and Jean Smith, have... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta 9780691247632
RRP: £30.00£23.29How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social... -
Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War by Michael Fewer
RRP: £9.99£7.11A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war - the defining event of modern Irish politics. The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder... -
Backstop Land Glenn Patterson 9781838932022
RRP: £13.99£12.61'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for... -
Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18 by Robert Johnson
RRP: £25.00£18.02WINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'A riveting account of T. E. Lawrence's battles on and off the battlefield... Using scrupulous research and succinct prose, Johnson provides a gold mine of stratagems... a must-read for military leaders... -
Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer
RRP: £8.99£6.70"Introducing The Enlightenment" is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in... -
Colonising Egypt by Timothy Mitchell
RRP: £27.00£21.06Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.About the... -
India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta
RRP: £30.00£26.95In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War, while 3 million civilians were killed by the... -
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Hildi Kang
RRP: £19.99£17.54In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... -
The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 by Frank O'Gorman
£42.36This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the... -
What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? by John Hausdoerffer
RRP: £24.00£23.03As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage-to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: £10.99£7.401920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
£32.30During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
Bolt Action: World War II Wargames Rules: Second Edition by Warlord Games
RRP: £35.00£26.42With more than 23,000 copies sold of the first edition, this second edition of the best-selling Bolt Action World War II wargaming ruleset from Osprey and Warlord Games presents streamlined and refined rules, incorporating all the FAQs and errata... -
When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam by Michael Philip Penn 9780520284944
RRP: £30.00£23.29The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under... -
Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603 by Susan Doran
RRP: £36.99£32.53Clearly organised under A-Level topicsSusan Doran highly thought of for England and Europe (Seminar Study)Very little in same format on English church in this periodDiscusses interpretations of historiansAbout the AuthorSusan DoranBook InformationISBN... -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: £35.00£28.14Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of...