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Japanese Jiu-jitsu: Secret Techniques of Self-Defense Darrell Max Craig 9784805313244
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.67With extensive, step-by-step photographs and instructions, this jiu-jitsu guide is an efficient tool for mastering this ancient martial art.The original Japanese martial art developed by the elite... -
Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.08Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.Book InformationISBN... -
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07The 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... -
Exploration Fawcett by Percy Fawcett
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z.The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. In... -
Sowing Empire: Landscape And Colonization by Jill H. Casid 9780816640966
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.93Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping-landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century-are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From... -
Blood, fire, death: The Swedish Metal Story by Ika Johannesson 9781627310673
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $39.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310673Author Ika JohannessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Rasputin: A short life Frances Welch 9781780722320
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.18Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with his fingers and boasting, 'I don't even know my ABC.... -
The Shortest History of Democracy John Keane 9781913083380
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083380Author John KeaneFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook 9780008321888
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.57The stunning new story of love and secrets from the Number One bestselling author of The Forgotten Village Can one promise change the fate of two women decades apart? ... -
The Philosophy of Cheese by Patrick McGuigan
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.54Patrick McGuigan is a British food journalist and cheese writer, who contributes to The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times, among many other titles. He has travelled the world, from the... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia... -
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.86The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and... -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the... -
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00'Masterly' - Robert Harris, author of Imperium 'Essential reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome' Independent*****Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's... -
Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.24In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage - the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its... -
Lockerbie: The Truth by Douglas Boyd 9780750985772
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.45On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects... -
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Fully Revised Edition) by Edward W. Said
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the World Trade Centre bombing, the West has been haunted by a spectre called 'Islam'. As portrayed by the news media - and by a chorus of... -
The Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $50.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 2001 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780375706363Author Fred... -
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine 9781107676169
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $42.06The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are... -
Typewriter: The History, The Machines, The Writers by Tony Allan 9781627950343
Booksplease Price: $25.70Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up,... -
The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties Robert Conquest 9781847925688
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Robert 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 Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington 9781529311983
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.88*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $24.70For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne... -
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $30.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of... -
The Mavericks: English Football When Flair Wore Flares Rob Steen 9781472974853
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54ONE OF FOUR FOUR TWO MAGAZINE'S '50 FOOTBALL BOOKS YOU MUST READ' 'A great book' - Henry Winter 'A lovely read, the kind in which you constantly annoy people by reading the funny bits out loud'... -
The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit Adam Macqueen 9781786492517
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'A fun history of political dishonesty' The TimesIn a history full of wit and acumen, Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen dissects the gripping stories of the biggest political lies of the last... -
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions by Chloe O. Davis 9781529110401
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms created by and for queer... -
Defeat Into Victory: (Pan Military Classics Series) by William Slim
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of... -
Supermarine Spitfire (Icon): 1936 onwards (all marks) by Blackah Price 9781785215742
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.191936 onwards (all marks), The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the full co-operation and authorisation of the Royal Air Force., Here is a unique... -
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage by Martin Robson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English language conversation and... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.33The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political... -
Ancient Rome A Colouring Book by Hilary Travis
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20Ancient Rome captures the imagination like few other historical places or periods. Its dress, buildings, mosaics and inscriptions are instantly recognisable the world over. Romans and their way of... -
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E Koonin
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $33.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science/Technology) 2021.Book InformationISBN... -
Great Kingdoms of Africa by John Parker
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of medieval West Africa, the highlands... -
Ottoman Armies 1820-1914 Gabriele Esposito 9781472855374
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called 'long 19th... -
Revolution: A History of England Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of... -
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.54Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What... -
The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187 by Steve Tibble
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.08A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly...