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An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal by Barbara Böck 9781842467985
£40.84Throughout the world, traditional medical systems continue to impact the lives of many people. These systems vary greatly in their underlying beliefs - but all commonly rely on the consumption of plant matter as a central practice. An Ancient... -
The Battles for Monte Cassino Then and Now by Jeffrey Plowman
RRP: £50.00£41.59The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations. Between January... -
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
RRP: £10.99£9.08A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure-with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe-for readers of all ages What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind... -
Norfolk Places Behind the Faces by John Ling
RRP: £15.99£10.85Norfolk has many places of interest connected with its diverse and sometimes bloody past. This book explores locations around the county linked with historical figures and major events. Houses, monuments and statues are associated with the likes of Lord... -
F2H Banshee Units by Jim Laurier
RRP: £15.99£11.61A fully illustrated study of the extraordinarily successful early-generation jet, the F2H Banshee, a frontline aircraft that served with 27 US Navy and US Marine Corps squadrons and three Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) squadrons. The F2H Banshee was an... -
Not a Guide to: Torbay by Anthony Poulton-Smith 9780752468822
RRP: £5.99£5.10Did you know? Torbay, 'The English Riviera' boasts 22 miles of coastline, with 20 beaches and coves. The famous Torbay palm is in fact a cabbage tree (cordyline australis) from New Zealand. The Torbay Picture House was Europe's oldest cinema. Seat 2, Row... -
!Brigadistas!: An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War by Miguel Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679609Author Miguel FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 165g -
Haunted Chester by David Brandon 9780752447810
RRP: £12.99£9.62This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a tour of the streets, alehouses, cemeteries and city walls of Chester the ancient city many claim is the most haunted in the North. Drawing on contemporary and historical sources, it contains... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: £14.99£9.80Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath... -
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London Midge Gillies 9781529339710
RRP: £25.00£16.78There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to... -
Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century by Matthew Ford
RRP: £20.00£17.84This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponising our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. 'Smart' devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing... -
Haunted Stevenage by Paul Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.55From unexplained sightings to the search for evidence of ghosts, this book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from Old and New Stevenage and the surrounding area. Compiled by paranormal historian Paul Adams, this collection features the restless... -
To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin by Andrew Cook 9780752439068
RRP: £12.99£9.62The murder of Rasputin on the night of 17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.Book... -
Colonialism and Homosexuality by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £37.99£33.78Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of... -
Renault R35 & R40 Through a German Lens by Alan Ranger
£16.41The Renault R35, an abbreviation of Char leger Modele 1935 R (or R35), was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War. Designed from 1933 and produced from 1936, the tank was intended as an infantry support light tank. To this end it was... -
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity Kolleen M. Guy (Associate Professor, Ricardo Romo Distinguished Professor in the Honors College, University of Texas at San Antonio) 9780801887475
RRP: £27.50£26.93Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the... -
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective by Robert C. Allen
RRP: £26.99£21.77Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of... -
In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars by James Davey
RRP: £14.99£13.43Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the... -
Dartmoor In Old Photographs by Tom Greeves 9780752431468
RRP: £12.99£8.32This fascinating volume of archive pictures recalls life as it once was on Dartmoor: the towns, the villages and the local people who lived and worked on the moor between the 1860s and 1950s. Illustrated with over 200 archive photographs and postcards,... -
The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad by Thomas Hegghammer
RRP: £34.99£26.45Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he... -
A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin John Julius Norwich 9781848546097
RRP: £12.99£8.60From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key... -
Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity by Paul Readman 9781108424738
RRP: £30.99£27.17People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the... -
Bannockburn 1314: The Battle 700 Years On by Chris Brown
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Battle of Bannockburn is the most celebrated battle in history between Scotland and England. Fought over two days on 23 and 24 June 1314 by a small river crossing in Stirling, it was a decisive victory for Robert the Bruce in the Scottish Wars of... -
World War II Vichy French Security Troops Dr Stephen M. Cullen 9781472827753
RRP: £12.99£9.09After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than... -
The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs
RRP: £49.99£48.84The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord... -
Illustrated Tales of Northumberland by Rob Kirkup
RRP: £15.99£10.85Northumberland is England's most northerly county and one of its most beautiful, with its spectacular countryside and coastline. Its location on the Anglo-Scottish border brings a wealth of history and culture, which, together with the stunning scenery,... -
Those Who Forget: One Family's Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning by Geraldine Schwarz
RRP: £10.99£7.32During 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... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He... -
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
RRP: £18.00£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288584Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The Renaissance Pupil's Book Rose Barling 9780719551864
£25.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719551864Author Rose BarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 228mm *... -
The Somme: A New History by Professor Gary Sheffield
RRP: £9.99£6.80On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous 7-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with... -
Liberating Libya! by Rupert Wieloch
RRP: £25.00£17.62Free Libya! was the chant heard throughout Libya during the Arab Spring revolution that ended with the death of Colonel Gadaffi in October 2011. The story is about British involvement in Libya since the first treaty signed with the rulers in Tripoli in... -
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Collins Classics) by E. M. Berens
RRP: £2.99£2.84HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'This was the slaying of the Minotaur, which put an end forever to the shameful tribute of seven youths and seven maidens which was exacted from the... -
US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol. 2: The LCT, LSM, LCS(L)(3), and LST by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67This second of two volumes on American landing craft of World War II focuses on the larger LCT, LSM, LCS(L)(3), and LST vessels that transported tanks and heavy equipment to the shores of North Africa and Normandy and throughout the Pacific. The need for... -
Wild Hope by Marisa Bate
RRP: £16.99£11.47Retracing 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... -
Hunt the Bismarck by Angus Konstam
RRP: £25.00£18.02Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit by the Royal Navy. Bismarck entered naval service in the summer of 1940. She was... -
1864: The forgotten war that shaped modern Europe by Tom Buk-Swienty
RRP: £12.99£9.45The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops... -
The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC by Graham Shipley
RRP: £49.99£43.90The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC examines social changes in the old and new cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingdoms. An appraisal of the momentous military and political changes after the era of Alexander, this book... -
Census and Social Structure Richard Lawton 9780714629650
RRP: £135.00£117.68First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording births, deaths and marriages, population numbers and trends,... -
The Apache Wars: The Hunt For Geronimo, The Apache Kid, And The Captive Boy Who Started The Longest War In American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...