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The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39On the afternoon of August 15, 1969, Richie Havens took the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, welcoming a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Havens... -
Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal' The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and... -
The Museum by the Park: 14 Queen Anne's Gate by Max Bryant 9781911300328
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.59The depth of history at Queen Anne's Gate - a handsome Baroque street overlooking St James's Park - is unusual even in London, and few houses resonate with more memories than the extraordinary number... -
Icebound by Andrea Pitzer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine historian - and a wonderful writer' - Peter Frankopan, author of the bestselling The Silk Roads. 'The name of William Barents isn't... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753827871
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The... -
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz Shlomo Venezia 9780745643847
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.77This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki,... -
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry 9780300260939
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines"A fitting tribute to the hundreds of men and women who risked their lives in... -
The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid Russell Jones 9781800181717
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $33.58In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we... -
Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide by Paul Wilkinson
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $31.82The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged,... -
The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe
Booksplease Price: $35.18In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and... -
The First World War by John Keegan
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that created the modern world... -
Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.31Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very... -
The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS 'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of... -
Historic England: Newcastle: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Paul Perry 9781445681252
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53This illustrated history portrays one of England's great cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Newcastle's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. ... -
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea by Terry Breverton
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98A compendium of fascinating information about the great waters that cover two-thirds of our Earth and the men and women that sailed them.Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and... -
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.61A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty.** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for... -
Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami Sonali Deraniyagala 9781844089079
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.82Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2014The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's... -
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 by Marika Sherwood 9781845113650
RRP: $96.60Booksplease Price: $90.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival by 9780810113022
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewish town of Izbica in the Lublin district of Poland - a... -
Mons, an Artillery Battle by David Hutchison 9781912390731
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390731Author David HutchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Forest of Foes by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.12In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church. AD 652... -
US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941: America's mighty last battleship fleet Mark Lardas 9781472859501
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.18The first book to examine the battleship-led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding. When the... -
Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $24.19WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman's epic... -
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187 by Steven Runciman
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...'Steven Runciman's... -
The Rebel's Mark by S. W. Perry
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.03Elizabeth's reign is reaching its winter and England's old adversaries are fading. But in a world on the brink of change, showing any weakness can be fatal...1598. Nicholas Shelby, unorthodox... -
Poland: A history by Adam Zamoyski 9780007556212
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall... -
Ecclesiastical History of the English People: With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede by the Venerable Saint Bede 9780140445657
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon... -
1945: Victory in the West by Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams, TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.50'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPHMarch 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War Janie Hampton 9780007356324
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction... -
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov
RRP: $30.43Booksplease Price: $23.86Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career,... -
Universal History, From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. by the Late Hon. Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee. Vol. 2. by Alexander Fraser Tytler L Woodhouselee 9781425559779
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $59.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425559779Author Alexander Fraser Tytler L WoodhouseleeFormat PaperbackP -
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.18A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the... -
A Girl Aboard the Titanic: The Remarkable Memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year-old Survivor of the Titanic Disaster by Eva Hart
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20'I saw that ship sink, I never closed my eyes. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it. I can remember the colours, the sounds, everything. The worst thing I can remember were the... -
The Little Book of Floriography: The Secret Language of Flowers by Orange Hippo! 9781800695399
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $9.45Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of... -
A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and... -
The Viceroy's Daughters Anne de Courcy 9780753812556
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy... -
Pagan Symbols of the Picts: The Symbology of pre-Christian Belief by Stuart McHardy 9781910021750
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols which have been discovered on various items across Scotland. The book sets out a cohesive interpretation of the Pictish past, using a variety of both... -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes 9780007225729
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.86Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from... -
Secret Liverpool by Mark Rosney
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53When you ask most people about Liverpool, you could be forgiven for thinking that the city is only famous for its maritime history, its two successful football teams or for being the birthplace of... -
The Black Prince by Michael Jones 9781784972943
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88A major new biography of the Black Prince. 'A clear-eyed and thrilling vision of the man behind the legend' DAN JONES. 'Pacy, vivid and extremely readable' TLS. In 1346, at the age of...