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The Portuguese: A Portrait of a People by Barry Hatton
RRP: $19.34$17.60Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent s south-west rim. Barry Hatton shines a light on... -
Old Ireland in Colour by John Breslin 9781785374319
RRP: $24.50$19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Irish Published Book 2020 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785374319Author John BreslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion... -
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff
RRP: $16.76$10.94CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad,... -
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
RRP: $24.50$16.98The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of the forgotten war.'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of... -
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession by David Grann 9781849830669
RRP: $12.89$8.27By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and... -
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818
RRP: $19.34$13.16Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet... -
A History Of God by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $16.76$11.73The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often... -
Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin
RRP: $36.11$31.31This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work... -
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $16.76$10.94The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-rival. From the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zigzag'. Adam Worth was the greatest master... -
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $16.76$11.73There 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... -
Drawing the Samurai Sword: The Japanese Art of Swordsmanship; Master the Ancient Art of Iaido by Tuttle
RRP: $18.05$11.87To the Japanese, the sword is a spiritual weapon. It possesses a particular divinity, reflecting the soul of its maker, owner, and user. Around its mystical powers has grown the centuries-old ritual and practice of Samurai swordsmanship which is still... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb 9781529007626
RRP: $32.25$24.02A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnson'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' The Times_____France: An... -
Indelible City: Dispossesion and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
RRP: $16.76$11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Stella Prize 2023 (Australia) and Non-Fiction, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 (Australia) and Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2023... -
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
RRP: $19.34$12.64Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction.'The best book we have got on Crete' ObserverThe Germans expected their... -
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: $19.34$14.13WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building... -
The Black Jacobins by Nick Broten
RRP: $8.39$7.88Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring. Other forms of history - the histories of gender, class, rebellion and nonconformity - add much-needed context and color to our... -
The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy by Alan R. MacDonald
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book is the first detailed discussion of the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625). It offers a refreshing new perspective on the Reformed Kirk during the crucial period in its development. It is an... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 by Steve Waugh
$6.44Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $19.34$12.64The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.Hobsbawm's classic... -
The West Yorkshire Moors: A hand-drawn guide to walking and exploring all of the county of West Yorkshire's open access moorland by Christopher Goddard 9780995560970
RRP: $16.76$14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995560970Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gritstone PublishingPublisher Gritstone Publishing -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca 9780141395852
RRP: $19.34$14.13Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the... -
Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors by Toni Mount
RRP: $14.18$9.35Our capital city has always been a thriving and colourful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchanging gossip and doing business. Abandoned by the Romans, rebuilt by the Saxons, occupied by the Vikings and... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $32.25$23.25BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times 'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict,... -
A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $14.18$9.69**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE 'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday... -
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
RRP: $12.89$9.17Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel... -
The Last Jews Of Kerala by Edna Fernandes 9781846270994
RRP: $14.18$9.44Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when their combined number has diminished to fewer than... -
Man Without A Face: The Autobiography Of Communism's Greatest Spymaster by Anne McElvoy
$24.25For decades, Markus Wolf was known to Western intelligence officers only as "the man without a face." Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from the shadows to reveal his remarkable life of secrets, lies, and betrayals as head of the world's most... -
English Journey by J. B. Priestley
RRP: $12.89$8.57'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his... -
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook
RRP: $16.76$11.73The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst... -
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab
RRP: $24.50$14.87From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. 'McNab's first major non-autobiographical work of non-fiction ... -
On China by Henry Kissinger
RRP: $21.92$15.84In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique... -
Blood in the Trenches: A Memoir of the Battle of the Somme by A Radclyffe Dugmore 9781399024396
RRP: $19.34$14.13Written by Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore of the Kings Own Light Infantry, this personal memoir provides an excellent account of the Great War up to the Battle of the Somme. A wide ranging and perceptive relation of events, Radclyffe Dugmores pedigree as a... -
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick 9780195305029
RRP: $36.75$25.09In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81... -
Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 by Fergal Keane
RRP: $19.34$12.51Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War. Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border... -
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria 9780241692417
RRP: $32.25$23.25The international best-selling author explores the revolutions, past and present, that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live.Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of “illiberal democracy” two decades ago. Now comes Age of... -
Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Sarris
RRP: $11.60$8.32After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousand years. In this Very Short Introduction Peter... -
Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII by Harriet Marsden
RRP: $18.05$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646041299Author Harriet MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press -
The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam by Webb, Simon 9781526797094
RRP: $19.34$14.13A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa... -
DK Eyewitness Belgium and Luxembourg by DK
RRP: $19.34$14.64The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring these historic countries.Appreciate the architectural splendour of Brussels, wander through picture-postcard Bruges,... -
The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough 9781789544688
RRP: $15.48$10.89The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'This book is like a time machine because McDonough writes so vividly' History of War 'McDonough writes clearly and readably with...