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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious... -
SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress Damien Lewis 9781787475168
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold stories of WWII' - Bear Grylls on SAS Ghost Patrol'The untold story' - Daily Mail on SAS Nazi... -
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.05From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on... -
Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah by Nicholas Noe 9781844671533
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $29.82In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the "Party of God," burst into the spotlight of the... -
The Air War Through German Eyes: How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies over the Reich by Jonathan Trigg 9781398116504
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.06Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis' homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing... -
Callanish and Other Megalithic Sites of the Outer Hebrides: And Other Megalithic Sites of the Outer Hebrides by Gerald Ponting 9781904263081
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.96On the remote north-western Isle of Lewis stands one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in the world, a stone circle forming part of a huge Celtic Cross, built over four thousand years ago... -
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America's most iconic poets Emily Dickinson 9781474625647
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with... -
Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times'Angry, accusatory and... -
The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed... -
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Lively' THE TIMES'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThrough ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical... -
Cambodia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kate Reavill 9781787023154
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.72Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Say "Cambodia," and two associations often come to mind: the lost glories of Angkor, and the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Any understanding of... -
British Lorries 1900-1945 by S. W. Stevens-Stratten
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.51The first forty-five years of the twentieth century saw the most formative period in the history of commercial vehicles: in 1900 the mechanically powered lorry was a novelty, yet by 1945 the... -
The Book of Unsolved Mysteries by Publications International Ltd 9781645583493
Booksplease Price: $25.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645583493Author Publications International LtdFormat HardbackPage Count -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $18.69A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization... -
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $7.40'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious... -
The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains by Jeremy Jones
Booksplease Price: $26.522023 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides 2023 Banff Mountain Book Award finalist in Guidebooks Includes stories, lists, and prescriptive guidance based on... -
Italian Battleships of World War II Mark Stille (Author) 9781849083805
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.75Italy's navy, the Regia Marina was the fourth-largest naval force in the world at the outbreak of World War II, and yet is often overlooked and largely discounted as ineffective. In general the fleet... -
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson 9780857524201
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the... -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fascinating, vast and... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (3): Catastrophe: the Death of Sixth Army by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.Armee. Having fought hard just to... -
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the new Colombia by Tom Feiling
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores... -
Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05When the tall, athletic Edward of York seized the English throne in 1461, he could have chosen any bride he wanted. With his dazzling good looks, few were able to resist his charm and promises. For... -
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of... -
My Early Life by Winston Churchill 9780907871620
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Winston Churchill wrote this account of the first 25 years of his life in 1930. It reveals him struggling with Latin grammar at prep school, charging the Dervishes at Omdurman and preparing his first... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' Richard Broad 9781846680007
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating... -
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh by Toby Harnden 9781785908415
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Branded as 'Bandit Country' by the British government, South Armagh was the heartland of the Provisional IRA. It was the rebel Irish stronghold where Thomas 'Slab' Murphy reigned supreme, bomb... -
Jarrow Reflections Paul Perry 9781398118577
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Jarrow's early history is associated with its mediaeval monastery, home of the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede, but much of the town developed later, during the Industrial Revolution, when coal mining and... -
Cars We Loved in the 1990s by Giles Chapman 9780750993180
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48The 1980s car era had been brash and loud - but the 1990s that followed was markedly more sober, stylish and sophisticated. A period when safety and durability improved . . . even though insurance... -
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of... -
The Balkans 1940-41 (2): Hitler's Blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia and Greece by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07The Wehrmacht's last Blitzkrieg campaign was indeed a lightning war, since German forces were required to seize both Yugoslavia and Greece before redeploying immediately to the East ready to attack... -
Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary Stories by Hannah Holman
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.21There were over 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster and their horrific experience has captivated readers and moviegoers for over 100 years. But what was it actually like for a woman to say goodbye... -
Republic (Collins Classics) by Plato 9780008480080
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $5.05HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what... -
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.02All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a... -
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (J. Sando Western History) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780425247853Author... -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott 9781800244825
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.09Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at... -
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by Stephen Davis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Damning' - Mail on Sunday'Utterly horrific and compelling' - The Guardian'This investigation rings true' - Publishers WeeklyOn 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow... -
Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident by 9781574884227
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $23.20The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what... -
U-47 in Scapa Flow by Angus Konstam 9781472808905
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy - nothing could penetrate the defences of this bastion.So how, in the dead of night, was Gunther... -
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than...