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Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921 by Tom O'Neill, MA
RRP: £22.00£16.44In 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the fort on Spike Island in County Cork was the largest British-military-run prison for Republican prisoners and internees in the Martial Law area, housing almost 1,400 men from Munster and south Leinster... -
A History of the Czech Lands Jaroslav Panek 9788024622279
RRP: £40.00£39.55Born January 1, 1993, after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside its modern borders boast an ancient and intricate past. With A... -
Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon by Ryan S Walters
RRP: £22.00£14.05On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than... -
In Cold War Skies: NATO and Soviet Air Power, 1949-89 by Michael Napier
RRP: £35.00£24.17Throughout the second half of the 20th century, international relations across the globe were dominated by the Cold War. From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, US and Soviet strategic forces were deployed across the Arctic Ocean in North... -
Firefighters during the Troubles: The Men and Women on the Frontline Tell Their Stories by John Wilson
RRP: £12.99£11.01Before the outbreak of the Troubles, a typical firefighter's year might have included call-outs to chimney fires, the occasional house fire or road accident, and - even more rarely - a large factory or hay shed fire. While a firefighting career was... -
The Paras in Afghanistan by Craig Allen
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 2021, the British Army's 20-year engagement in Afghanistan ended with chaotic scenes at Kabul International Airport. The Parachute Regiment had been involved since the earliest days of conflict and was there at the end to provide security for the... -
Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam by Robert G. Hoyland 9780415195355
RRP: £36.99£32.53Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriorsArabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and... -
SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944 by M. R. D. Foot
RRP: £43.99£38.84SOE in France was first published in 1966, followed by a second impression with amendments in 1968. Since these editions were published, other material on SOE has become available. It was, therefore, agreed in 2000 that Professor Foot should produce a... -
China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
RRP: £15.95£13.10A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."-Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in... -
Lost Federations: The Unmade History of Star Trek by A. J. Black 9781915359117
RRP: £14.99£10.89SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early... -
The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Ching Kwan Lee
RRP: £26.00£24.85China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign... -
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his... -
Roman Shields by M.C. Bishop
RRP: £14.99£11.75The introduction of the scutum in the 4th century BC revolutionized the way the Romans fought. Instead of being purely defensive, the shield became a weapon in its own right. Using the top edge or boss to punch an opponent, or the lower rim to smash down... -
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell by Prof Paul Bew 9780192873705
RRP: £25.00£21.19The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles
RRP: £5.99£4.11Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages.Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and little-known rebels.We begin with the... -
KJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Black, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £40.00£32.57This beautiful Bible edition honors the legacy of the King James Version Bible in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type,... -
Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Suleyman by Kaya Sahin 9780197531631
RRP: £24.49£20.78A full life and times biography of Suleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to... -
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
RRP: £10.99£8.65Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond. 'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' Sunday Times'A... -
A Prince and a Spy: The gripping novel from the master of the wartime spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: £14.99£11.54In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy.'A master of the wartime spy... -
The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology: Toward a Theory of Maqasid al-Aqida by Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour 9780197648636
RRP: £70.00£59.48In the Islamic tradition, fiqh (Islamic law) is generally regarded as the science of furu'al-din (matters complementary to the Islamic faith), as opposed to kalam (Islamic theology) which is known as the science of usul al-din (matters primary to the... -
Old York Paul Chrystal 9781840338508
RRP: £19.95£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338508Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 5mm -
Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead. Inferno is a searing account... -
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella
RRP: £35.00£27.74An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the SouthAfter the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to... -
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Clements 9781529332421
RRP: £25.00£16.78'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR'A... -
Cruiser Birmingham: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Conrad Waters 9781526724977
RRP: £30.00£21.95The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the `as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £14.99£9.80In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested,... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316097
RRP: £37.50£21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316097Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory 9780008601713
RRP: £14.99£13.16A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES ... -
To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman 9780374298340
RRP: £32.00£19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374298340Author Noah FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth 9780415118460
RRP: £37.99£33.38St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived... -
Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle by Dagnija Neimane 9780997553307
RRP: £13.75£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997553307Author Dagnija NeimaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dagnija NeimanePublisher Dagnija NeimaneWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Prehistoric Lancashire by David Barrowclough 9780752447087
RRP: £25.00£18.94What was life like for the prehistoric inhabitants of Lancashire? This is the first book to look at the history of the county from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age period. What emerges is a picture of a complex society that changed and developed with the... -
UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940-44: The Most Bombed Place on Earth by S. A. M. Hudson
RRP: £14.99£11.95As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal... -
Battleship Warspite: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Robert Brown 9781526719379
RRP: £30.00£21.95The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam 9780691233765
RRP: £22.00£16.52A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new... -
Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands by Harold Briley
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Journalists are said to write the first rough drafts of history. But I was only the messenger.'When Argentine troops surged onto the shores of the Falkland Islands, it was Harold Briley who broke the news to Britain and the rest of the world. As the BBC... -
The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western Europe 950-1250 Robert I. Moore (formerly University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) 9781405129640
RRP: £27.95£24.25The tenth to the thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the Inquisition, the expropriation and mass murder of Jews, and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy and... -
Changing Scarborough by Paul Chrystal 9781781552544
RRP: £14.99£11.55Scarborough has a rich and varied history extending from the Roman signal station and the marauding hordes of Vikings under Tostig Godwinson and Harald III of Norway through its revival under Henry II who built the Angevin stone castle and granted... -
Pastoral Care in Medieval England: Interdisciplinary Approaches Peter Clarke (University of Southampton, UK) 9781032091150
RRP: £39.99£35.06Pastoral Care, the religious mission of the Church to minister to the laity and care for their spiritual welfare, has been a subject of growing interest in medieval studies. This volume breaks new ground with its broad chronological scope (from the early... -
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880390Author Matthew DelmontFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult