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The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition J M Roberts 9781846144431
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.06The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World... -
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45 by Leo Marks
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.65In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of genius. In Between... -
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times 'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times When Captain... -
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street above in high heels... Merriman has burrowed her way... -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening... -
Lost Lines of Wales: Rhyl To Corwen by D.W. Southern 9781912213108
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213108Author Paul LawtonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint -
What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by Max Siollun 9781911723264
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.53Most accounts of Nigeria's colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership. Thanks... -
The History Lessons by Shalina Patel 9781837731619
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €12.53GO AND BUY THIS BOOK - SHALINA IS AN EXTRAORDINARY TEACHER AND MAKES EVERY SUBJECT FASCINATINGBella Mackie, author of How to Kill Your FamilyTaking the reader on a tour through history, from the... -
Uncommon Grounds (New edition): The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.69First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark... -
Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift by Ian Knight
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops, 500 of their allies... -
Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson 9780006531913
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.77A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail. Magnus Magnusson's... -
The Flag: The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior by Andrew Richards 9781612007496
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64This book describes the wartime experiences of Reverend David Railton, MC, who was a chaplain on the Western Front during WWI. As a chaplain, Railton supported soldiers in their worst moments, he... -
Captives: Prisoners of War and Internees 1939-1945 by The National Archives 9781803995953
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €13.08Millions of people were held captive all over the world during the Second World War, including those in the armed services, who were captured and became prisoners of war, as well as many ordinary... -
Stations of Coastal Command: Then and Now David Smith 9781870067874
RRP: €44.63Booksplease Price: €37.65Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganisation of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain's mainstay in the battle against the German... -
The Woman They Could Not Silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear by Kate Moore
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.21From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an... -
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeSUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014This addition to the landmark Penguin History of... -
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9781784874407
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote... -
Welsh History: Strange but True by Geoff Brookes
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.97Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed - until his third wife insisted that they were removed. In 1856 Ronald Rhys... -
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War by Saul David
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.40'Excellent' Antony Beevor 'Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater... -
Panther Tank: The Panzerkampfwagen V in World War II David Doyle 9780764364778
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.58Featuring sloping armor and armed with a powerful 75 mm gun, Germany's Panther tank was developed as a counter to the Soviet T-34. Entering production in 1943, the Panther was intended to become... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 9781853264993
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.16Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length... -
Three Sisters: The conclusion to the Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy by Heather Morris
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.79'Gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.' Christy Lefteri, author of the million-copy bestseller The Beekeeper of AleppoTHEIR STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEARTTHEIR JOURNEY WILL FILL YOU WITH HOPEYOU WILL... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.33Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return... -
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Prof. Dacher Keltner 9781802061161
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to... -
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian Copenhaver
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.51'. . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised... -
They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France by Charles Glass 9780143111139
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €18.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111139Author Charles GlassFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor Philip Freeman 9780300281873
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.96The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman "When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its... -
Lightning Boys by Grub Street 9781911703266
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703266Author Grub StreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience,... -
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza 9781944700829
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €15.66"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange, a world I hope we will... -
Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines: More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Garrett Ryan 9781633888937
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London's Lost Treasures by Jason Sandy
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.27A beautifully illustrated introduction to mudlarking which tells the incredible, forgotten history of London through objects found on the foreshore of the River Thames. Often seen combing the... -
The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Andrea Levy 9780755359424
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly... -
The Black Friar: The Seeker 2 by S. G. MacLean
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.44Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this twisty, action-packed historical thriller for fans of CJ... -
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98In Pop Goes the Weasel, Albert Jack explores the strange and fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew, showing that their real meanings are far from innocent.Who were Mary... -
Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Jowett, Philip
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.48The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France... -
Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804180136
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €16.31A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to... -
Wild Kilted Yoga: Flow and Feel Free by Finlay Wilson
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.22Viral Scottish yoga star Finlay Wilson is back with Wild Kilted Yoga. Get ready for more tartan, more dramatic scenery and more tips and tricks to make your yoga practice extra special. This... -
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."-Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor...