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Fire Island: A Queer History Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: $21.43$14.70"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of... -
Viking Voyagers by Jack Tite
RRP: $19.48$14.53Around 1,200 years ago the legendary voyaging Norsemen set sail to raid and trade - the Viking Age had begun. Step back in time to find out what Viking life was like, how they travelled, where they traded and their rich mythology. Come face to face with... -
When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank L. Holt
RRP: $61.41$53.78Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then,... -
The Cambridge History of the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler 9781107602304
RRP: $66.28$59.01Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban... -
The Story of Cambridge by Stephanie Boyd
RRP: $35.08$29.00How did a small market town on the edge of the Fens become famous throughout the world? And how do Cambridge's two communities - 'town' and 'gown' - get along? This engaging history explains how Cambridge has developed from its prehistoric roots to... -
The Story of the Second World War For Children: 1939-1945 Peter Chrisp 9781783124503
RRP: $21.43$13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783124503Author Peter ChrispFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Jonathan Freedland 9781529369045
RRP: $39.00$27.20SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE TIMES, THE... -
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 4) Robert A Caro 9781847922953
RRP: $58.50$42.30Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's multi-award-winning best-selling work on American President Lyndon Johnson.The Passage of Power, 'the series' crowning volume' (Economist), spans the years... -
Death in the Fields: The IRA and East Tyrone by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $33.13$32.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374432Author Jonathan TriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Kurds in a Changing Middle East: History, Politics and Representation by Faleh A. Jabar 9780755651054
$57.23The Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world, numbering more than 20 million people. Their homeland lies mostly within the present-day borders of Turkey, Iraq and Iran as well as parts of Syria, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Yet until... -
Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hilter's Most Brilliant General Erich Manstein 9780760320549
RRP: $42.90$25.64Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany's top WWII general, is now made available again. Field Marshal Erich... -
Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project by Ruth Ahnert 9781009175555
RRP: $33.15$28.70Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding... -
Kings and Queens (Collins Gem) by Neil Grant
RRP: $13.63$9.69A copiously illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present, complete with concise genealogical charts and details of key historical events. The book is divided into five sections,... -
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris 9780571350520
RRP: $48.75$33.13'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY'Humane, humorous and joyful.' RUTH SCURRWhen the celebrated... -
Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders 9781862073272
RRP: $29.23$19.62During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal... -
The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties Robert Conquest 9781847925688
RRP: $42.90$31.73Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet... -
The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History by Colin McEvedy
RRP: $25.33$18.21The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East. From 50,000 B.C. to the fourth century A.D., it is one of the most successful of the... -
War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin
RRP: $25.33$17.30Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible... -
Rampaging Rugby by Robin Bennett 9781913102609
RRP: $13.63$9.38Rampaging Rugby is the first in the Stupendous Sports series, which aims to do for sport what Horrible Histories did for Year 6 history with Mr Simkin! Full of cartoons, player tips your coach won't tell you, irreverent explanations, fascinating facts... -
Pride: The Inspiring True Story Behind the Hit Film by Tim Tate 9781786062918
RRP: $21.43$15.00In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community in the remote... -
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson 9781781257258
RRP: $48.75$35.69Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating'... -
They Went to Portugal: A Travellers' Portrait by Rose Macaulay
RRP: $25.33$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198397Author Rose MacaulayFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 9780872202047
RRP: $23.38$19.54This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the Wealth of Nations contains--and conceals--a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: $33.13$23.95America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire... -
Octopus Socktopus by Nick Sharratt 9781407189475
RRP: $11.68$8.21A brilliant board book from bestselling author-illustrator, Nick Sharratt. Lift the flaps to reveal your favourite octopus! Will it be the Cuckoo Clocktopus, the Scary Shocktopus or maybe even the Party... -
The Shortest History of England James Hawes 9781910400999
RRP: $17.53$12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400999Author James HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story Ramzy Baroud 9780745337999
RRP: $33.13$22.83Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have... -
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting... -
The Great War on the Western Front: 1914 - 1918 by Mike Lepine 9781915343536
RRP: $42.88$30.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343536Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited -
A-Z Cambridge Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Ruth Meyer
RRP: $13.63$9.69Discover hidden gems around Cambridge with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert,... -
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $37.03$26.54State of Emergency : Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies. The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now... -
Break Point: SAS: Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story by Ollie Ollerton
RRP: $17.53$12.52DON'T MISS OLLIE OLLERTON'S MUST-HAVE SURVIVAL GUIDE, HOW TO SURVIVE (ALMOST) ANYTHING! PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROLLIE OLLERTON CO-HOSTS SAS: WHO DARES WINS ALONGSIDE ANT MIDDLETON, JASON FOX and MARK BILLINGHAM. THIS IS HIS... -
England's Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $68.25$47.54'Inspired . . . encourages us to take a fresh look at the familiar' - The TimesEngland's cathedrals are the nation's glory. They tower over its landscape, outranking palaces, castles and mansions. They attract roughly half the nation's population each... -
The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by S. A. Smith
RRP: $17.53$12.97This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men... -
Letters for the Ages: The Private and Personal Letters of Sir Winston Churchill by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $39.00$27.87Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more... -
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $25.33$18.21Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c.1517) shows a radically... -
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons Laura Cumming 9781784708634
RRP: $19.48$14.27**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.'A modern... -
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
RRP: $48.75$32.82The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the... -
OCR Ancient History AS and A Level Component 1: Greece by Charlie Cottam
RRP: $35.08$33.74This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period... -
Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II Colin Smith 9780141010366
RRP: $29.23$21.35Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had...