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Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949 by Erhard Steiniger
RRP: $52.50$37.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784386184Author Erhard SteinigerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
The Cat and The City: 'Vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell by Nick Bradley
RRP: $20.98$15.37A 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... -
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 9781780746463
RRP: $27.28$18.12BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the... -
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty by Natalie Livingstone
RRP: $27.28$15.77'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain... -
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan 9781526608246
RRP: $27.28$17.47From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita' The... -
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller by Captain Tom Moore
RRP: $23.08$16.32Embark on an enchanting journey into our country's past hundred years through the remarkable life of Captain Sir Tom MooreTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful life story with lessons for us all . . . beautifully written' DAILY... -
A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin 9780805088090
RRP: $52.50$31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088090Author David FromkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Gertrude Jekyll by Twigs Way
RRP: $16.78$13.94Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for the superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art... -
Maus: a Survivor's Tale: No 1 by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $73.50$49.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679406419Author Art SpiegelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
Pegasus Bridge: D-day: The Daring British Airborne Raid by Stephen E. Ambrose
RRP: $23.08$14.70D-Day before dawn. Minute by minute, hour by hour the danger grows... In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defence forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe... -
Weimar and Nazi Germany by Chris Hinton
$64.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719573439Author Chris HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 1080gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm... -
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson
RRP: $52.50$37.84Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population during... -
World History in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant by Dorothy Ail
RRP: $27.28$18.06What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions - and many more - in 200 simple and accessible... -
The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA: the Book that Inspired the Dig by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: $27.28$16.21The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim,... -
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds 9780199986118
RRP: $52.48$38.77D-Day--June 6, 1944--is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the... -
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
RRP: $23.08$16.32Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.'Stands comparison with Sapiens... Thrilling' Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces. Ancient Greece... -
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War by Erik Larson 9780008681753
RRP: $52.50$34.50The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On... -
Tudor England by John Guy
RRP: $60.88$57.94From Henry VII's capture of the crown at Bosworth in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, Tudor England witnessed far-reaching changes in politics and religion under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth herself. John Guy's compelling new... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: $39.88$29.42'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily MailShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012Wasn't the... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: $16.78$12.16The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists... -
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber 9780804710138
RRP: $79.80$70.71France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. ... -
Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly compelling... -
St Kilda: A People's History by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: $27.28$17.98St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of the outside world for hundreds of years. Their... -
Military Aircraft: World's Greatest Fighters, Bombers and Transport Aircraft from World War I to the Present by Thomas Newdick
RRP: $52.48$37.36Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of... -
Bloody London by David Fathers
RRP: $20.98$14.68An entertaining, revealing and beautifully illustrated walking guide to London's horrific history, Bloody London features walks that take in everything from Jack the Ripper's haunts, to the site of John Christie's house of horrors, to the plague outbreak... -
Bill Wyman's Chelsea: From Medieval Village to Cultural Capital by Bill Wyman 9781911397359
RRP: $35.68$25.43Bill Wyman has worked in the London borough of Chelsea on-and-off since joining the Rolling Stones in 1962, and has lived in the area since 1982. Over the past few years, Bill has walked every street of his beloved neighbourhood, photographing anything... -
Subsmash: The Mysterious Disappearance of HM Submarine Affray by Alan Gallop
RRP: $20.98$15.86In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages. Affray had put to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel. She radioed her last position... -
Dreams of Peace: A gripping wartime family saga by Rowena Summers 9781804365755
RRP: $20.98$13.52The war is drawing to a close, but life for the Caldwell sisters is far from peaceful...Still waiting for her fiance, James, to return from fighting in North Africa, Imogen focuses her attention on driving for the Auxiliary Territorial Service General... -
Hillsborough - The Truth by Phil Scraton
RRP: $23.08$16.32This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the... -
Exploring History Student Book 2: Cavaliers, Colonies and Coal by Rosemary Rees
$49.01Content covered: Challenges to the Catholic ChurchThe English Civil WarChanging ideas: 1660-1789The Slave TradeThe British EmpireThe Industrial RevolutionBook InformationISBN 9781292218700Author Rosemary ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Pearson... -
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser 9780714685007
RRP: $60.88$52.69This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War... -
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
RRP: $27.28$17.98In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium.During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders,... -
Enquiring History: The French Revolution by Dave Martin
$52.94Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.Enquiring History: It makes you think! The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students... -
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell
RRP: $35.68$24.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry... -
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $73.50$53.11The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell. The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great... -
Selected Works by Cicero
RRP: $23.08$16.32Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero... -
Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939-45: Tanks, Self-Propelled Guns, Halftracks & AFVs by Chris Bishop
RRP: $41.98$29.51Illustrated with detailed artworks of German tanks and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939-45 is the definitive study of the equipment and organisation of the Wehrmacht's armoured divisions... -
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
RRP: $27.28$19.09From the bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, and creator of the explosive Netflix series, Ancient Apocalypse____________________________________'Supernatural: of or relating to things that cannot be explained according to natural laws.''As... -
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Rosie Bsheer 9781503612570
RRP: $54.58$44.60The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of... -
The Local: A History of the English Pub by Paul Jennings
RRP: $27.28$23.12Paul Jennings traces the history of the British pub, and looks at how it evolved from the eighteenth century's coaching inns and humble alehouses, back-street beer houses and 'fine, flaring' gin palaces to the drinking establishments of the twenty-first...