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Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES by Conn Iggulden
RRP: $21.43$15.58ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches' DAILY MAIL'Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $23.38$16.89This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in... -
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds
RRP: $21.43$14.70PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.' SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one of the... -
When I Were A Lad...: Snapshots From A Time That Health & Safety Forgot Andrew T Davies 9781907554001
RRP: $19.48$13.34When I Were a Lad... looks at the glorious-yet-risky childhoods of yesteryear before the Health and Safety officers told us we couldn't do everything because it was too dangerous. The sleeper hit of Christmas 2009 - more than 4,000 copies sold... -
Around the World in 80 Years: A Life of Exploration by Ranulph Fiennes 9781399729734
RRP: $48.75$32.43A CELEBRATION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING EXPLORER' PRAISE FOR SIR RANULPH FIENNES:'Always that little bit further and always the best. It is why, even to this day, I remain in awe at all he has accomplished... -
The Woman from Beaumont Farm by Annemarie Brear 9780645033908
$16.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $29.23$21.35Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
The Cat and The City: 'Vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell by Nick Bradley
RRP: $19.48$14.27A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick'A love letter to Japan and its literature' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan'Ingenious... Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking' Guardian'An ideal tonic for anyone craving far-flung adventure' Mail on Sunday'If you're itching... -
Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts by Piers Morgan
RRP: $19.48$13.34The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the cancel culture. ... -
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
RRP: $25.33$18.21Shortlisted for the PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize'A terrific book, rich and endlessly thought provoking. . . If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese civilisation, read this' - Michael WoodAn engrossing history of ancient... -
Thought Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation by Annie Besant
RRP: $48.75$38.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999609996Author Annie BesantFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Sacred BonesPublisher Sacred Bones -
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. by Pelt,,Robert,Jan Van
RRP: $62.38$43.93This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people-mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others-lost... -
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten 9781837700448
RRP: $19.48$13.65If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event... -
Poetry of the First World War by Marcus Clapham
RRP: $21.43$15.07The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert... -
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain Peter Fryer 9780745338309
RRP: $33.13$23.28Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of... -
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman 9780062859020
RRP: $33.13$22.37The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty... -
Go! Go! Go!: The SAS. The Iranian Embassy Siege. The True Story by Will Pearson 9780753828540
RRP: $19.48$13.65The first comprehensive account of the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.GO! GO! GO! tells the action-packed story of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. It is a comprehensive, detailed and gripping account of an unforgettable six-day drama... -
History Find it! Explore it!: More than 250 things to find, facts and photos! (National Geographic Kids) by National Geographic Kids
RRP: $13.63$9.69Travel back in time with this fun search and find fact book from National Geographic Kids. Find it! Search the busy illustrated scenes to find more than 250 objects, animals and people. From the Iron Age to Ancient Egypt, The Vikings to... -
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller by Josef Lewkowicz 9781529177497
RRP: $17.53$12.97**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The Survivor both terrifies us and inspires us. It's a must read.'Tova Friedman, author of The Daughter of Auschwitz.One of... -
Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt
RRP: $25.33$17.16'A gripping story about the personalities who initiated the mapping of Britain and their extraordinary skill and endurance' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, but in our modern map-obsessed world how... -
Century Sisters: Our Hundred Years by Patricia Owtram
RRP: $19.48$14.27The redoubtable Owtram sisters, best-selling authors of Codebreaking Sisters, take us back in time once again with recently rediscovered diaries and letters from the '20s and 30s that paint a vivid picture of their childhood at Newland Hall in... -
Testament by Wilbur Smith 9781838776350
RRP: $42.90$28.68An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith.FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST RISEFOR THE GLORY OF EGYPTYears of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two kingdoms have now been... -
Blind Mans Bluff by Christopher Drew
RRP: $21.43$15.58__________________________Adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea: the remarkable reality of Cold War submarine warfareIn Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter... -
The Great Book of British Useless Information by Hannah Warner
RRP: $19.48$13.75Which king ordered everyone to bed at 8pm? How many Pot Noodles are sold every second in Great Britain? How many streets must a London cabbie memorise in order to pass 'the knowledge'? How much does the hammer of Big Ben's bell weigh? If you want to... -
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
RRP: $21.43$15.58In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became... -
German Soldier vs British Soldier: Spring Offensive and Hundred Days 1918 Dr Stephen Bull 9781472861177
RRP: $31.18$22.64This illustrated study pits the Kaiser’s troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw Germany use veteran, highly trained assault troops and innovative... -
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $25.33$18.21There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. Its scope and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. By examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement... -
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
RRP: $33.13$23.95ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The TimesA century... -
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives by Adam Smyth 9781847926296
RRP: $48.75$35.69A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.'This really is the loveliest of books' I'I cannot recommend it highly enough' SPECTATORThis is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess,... -
Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county by Martin Latham
RRP: $19.48$13.34Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a... -
British Fiji Class Cruisers and their Derivatives by Conrad Waters 9781526799838
RRP: $97.50$68.68A follow-up to the author’s highly regarded history of British ‘Town’ class cruisers, this book takes the same approach, combining coverage of the development, design details and career highlights of the original class as well as the Uganda, Minotaur and... -
Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium by Erik Davis 9780262048507
RRP: $58.50$39.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048507Author Erik DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780199535668
RRP: $21.43$16.36Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 9780241984482
RRP: $19.48$14.27Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his... -
Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $17.53$12.97The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient... -
Gimson's Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to Johnson Andrew Gimson 9781910931431
RRP: $29.23$21.66A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson.For the reader who has heard of such giants as Gladstone and Disraeli, and has drunk... -
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
RRP: $25.33$22.35A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the... -
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
RRP: $29.23$19.62BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.'An outstanding journalist and chronicler.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Fused with... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
RRP: $21.43$15.58Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed'... -
One Day in September by Simon Reeve
RRP: $21.43$14.70In the early hours of 5 September 1972 the perimeter fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich was scaled by terrorists. Their target was the temporary home of the Israeli Olympic team, and within 24 hours seventeen men were dead: eleven Israelis,...