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The College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge by Reginald H. Adams
RRP: $19.48$15.29At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in formal hall at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the... -
Hunter of Stories Eduardo Galeano 9781472128867
RRP: $19.48$13.46'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and entertain' Morning StarThe internationally acclaimed last work... -
Tiger!: The de Havilland Tiger Moth by Stuart McKay 9780859791823
RRP: $58.40$44.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791823Author Stuart MckayFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War Ian Mackersey 9780753828137
RRP: $19.48$11.99The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air.'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with... -
The Tudor Socialite: A Social Calendar of Tudor Life by Jan-Marie Knights
RRP: $39.00$26.01Delivered in bite-sized diary chunks, Jan-Marie Knights takes the reader on a journey into the world of Tudor high society. This is a world of love affairs, tragedy, marriage and death; the realm of flamboyant dress, opulent jewellery and burning... -
The Zekameron: One hundred tales from behind bars and eyelashes by Maxim Znak
RRP: $25.33$17.90WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024 'How did these stories get into your hands? They flew, as if painted by Marc Chagall, through prison walls, borders, and languages.' - Valzhyna Mort ... -
Understanding Early Christian Art Robin M. Jensen (University of Notre Dame, USA) 9781032105482
RRP: $70.18$61.33Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to... -
Georgian Liverpool by Hugh Hollinghurst
RRP: $31.18$21.16Liverpool grew rapidly in the Georgian period as it was a major port for Atlantic trade, rivalling any other city in the UK outside London in terms of prosperity and population. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the city embarked on an... -
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition by Kanan Makiya
RRP: $52.65$41.07First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, "Republic of Fear" was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction... -
The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century by Bernadette Cunningham
$76.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846825385Author Bernadette CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Marvel Deluxe Edition: Marvel Super Heroes - Secret Wars by Jim Shooter 9781804910504
RRP: $77.98$55.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910504Author Jim ShooterFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd -
Britain Since 1707 by Hamish Fraser 9780582894150
RRP: $77.98$77.10Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced... -
SBS: Special Boat Squadron by Iain Gale
RRP: $19.48$13.10A historical adventure chronicling the exploits of the Special Boat Squadron, the seaborne raiders who, by strength and guile, carried out World War Two's most daring covert operations. From this moment on, you and your men, you don't exist. ... -
A Brief History of the Mediterranean by Jeremy Black
RRP: $21.43$7.04A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home.'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean... -
Secret Tewkesbury by David Elder 9781398111868
RRP: $31.18$21.16From its Saxon beginnings to the severe floods of 2007, Tewkesbury is one of Britain's most remarkable towns. It is well known for its Norman abbey of cathedral-like proportions and the great battle which proved to be one of the most decisive in the Wars... -
Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art Leon Wainwright (Department of Art History, The Open University (United Kingdom)) 9781781384176
RRP: $42.88$38.75Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception.Featuring attention to works by the following ... -
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews by Peter Longerich
RRP: $43.86$33.03A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that... -
The Archbishops of Canterbury: A Tale of Church and State by John Butler 9781841657905
RRP: $25.33$17.57The office of Archbishop of Canterbury is the oldest continuous institution in Britain - older than the English crown and much older than Parliament. For over fourteen hundred years, from Augustine in the 6th century to Justin Welby in the 21st,... -
The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism by Sebastian Edwards
RRP: $54.60$42.28How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic... -
What is the History of Emotions? Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago) 9781509508501
RRP: $30.23$27.30What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the... -
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: $29.23$24.24The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentle hearted torturer - the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He... -
Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963
RRP: $17.53$12.97"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with... -
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi
RRP: $31.20$26.99Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society's-and her own-perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but... -
Battle on the Lomba 1987: The Day a South African Armoured Battalion Shattered Angola’s Last Mechanized Offensive - a Crew Commander's Account by David Mannall 9781909982024
RRP: $38.90$28.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982024Author David MannallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Rommel - A Reappraisal by Ian F. Beckett 9781781593592
RRP: $38.98$27.85How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, 70 years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and... -
Scotland's Lost Villages by Dane Love 9781911043058
RRP: $35.10$29.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043058Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd -
The Oxford History of the Holy Land by Robert G. Hoyland
RRP: $25.33$18.21Histories you can trust. The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the... -
The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose
RRP: $11.68$8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448401683Author Cara AshroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm)... -
The 'Russian' Civil Wars 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World by Jonathan D. Smele
RRP: $38.98$35.53This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the... -
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Fifth Edition by Andrew Wilson
RRP: $29.23$25.41As 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... -
Titanic Hero: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia by Sir Arthur H. Rostron
RRP: $42.88$30.44The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors. The Carpathia was on its regular voyage to New York City, when early on 15 April 1912 it received a distress signal from the White Star Line ocean... -
England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England 1625-1662 by Anthony Milton
RRP: $77.98$67.53England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations. Rather than seeing the Civil War years as a destructive... -
Love Letters: Intimate Correspondence Between Famous Lovers Andrea Clarke 9780712353519
RRP: $25.33$16.28In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30 handwritten notes included in this book span... -
B/EB-66 Destroyer Units in Combat by Peter E. Davies
RRP: $29.23$21.35Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi region. However, underlying all these was the secretive 'electron war' in which highly-skilled electronic... -
Pink Floyd Are Fogbound In Paris by Ben Graham
RRP: $38.90$26.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715017231Author Ben GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future by Peter Gleick
RRP: $58.50$36.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541702271Author Peter GleickFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 48mm -
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: $54.58$47.54This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War-the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944-when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide,"... -
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways Christian Wolmar 9781848871731
RRP: $39.00$27.87Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the... -
Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad by Jason D. Marks 9780811714044
$87.69The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the Leaping Horseman, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division's savage fighting on Stalingrad's outskirts and in the devastated ruins of the... -
Kendall's Longitude by John Bendall 9781788239417
RRP: $19.48$14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788239417Author John BendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers