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Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture by Gavriel David Rosenfeld
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.51The Third Reich's legacy is in flux. For much of the post-war period, the Nazi era has been viewed moralistically as an exceptional period of history intrinsically different from all others. Since... -
No Parachute: A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI by Arthur Gould Lee 9781911621058
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.21From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces - among them Ball,... -
Churchill's Desert Rats in North Africa, Burma, Sicily and Italy: 7th Armoured Division's Campaigns, 1940 1943 by Delaforce, Patrick 9781399074582
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79This well researched and well written book covers the early campaigns and battles that earned The Desert Rats their fame and name. This volume covers the difficult early years when ultimate victory... -
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe by Monica Dickens 9780349016016
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACKINTOSH... -
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity... -
A Brief History of the Freemasons Jasper Ridley 9781845296780
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.23The history of the Freemasons has been often shrouded in mystery and suspicion. Since 1717, with the establishment of the Grand Lodge in London, the Freemasons have been a power within the nation,... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The 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... -
What is History? by E. H. Carr
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Not only our most distinguished historian but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory' SpectatorIn answering the question, 'what is history?', E. H. Carr's acclaimed and... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.65'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history... -
1990s, The A Ammonite 9781906672157
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.55This series is each devoted to a decade of British life and contains around 300 photographs which were hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists. Most have lain unseen since they were first used as... -
Dorset's Military Heritage by Dean Hollands
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The making of Dorset's military heritage has been a dramatic, brutal, and often turbulent affair. From the time of the Durotriges tribes and their spectacular Iron Age strongholds, to the more modern... -
Ideas: A history from fire to Freud Peter Watson 9780753820896
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'An extraordinary new book ... This is the history of "ideas" as it has... -
The Basque History Of The World by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and... -
The Western Kingdom: The Birth of Cornwall by John Fletcher
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.56In the fifth century, the Roman Empire collapsed and Western Europe began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed. In south-west Britain, old tribal authorities and identities reasserted... -
BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission by Steve Gibson 9780750987721
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines'... -
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it "Lively and arresting. . . . [Lincoln] is as confident in handling the royal... -
The Long Journey Home by Cecily Blench
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76A moving and powerful novel of love, secrets and redemption in a country torn apart by war. For readers of Kate Furnivall and Dinah Jefferies.It's 1941 and Kate is living in Rangoon, Burma, a world... -
Nancy Wake: World War Two's Most Rebellious Spy by Russell Braddon 9781542021661
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00'Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable' -Sebastian Faulks This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you've never heard... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
Booksplease Price: $49.34* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into... -
The Medieval Monastery by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.22An illustrated look at life in abbeys and priories, and within the monastic orders, in the middle ages. Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $37.83An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic... -
A House Through Time by David Olusoga
Booksplease Price: $18.52'A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes' Choice MagazineIn recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People,... -
The Greatest Women in History: The remarkable women who changed our world by 9781912918072
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.10Science, engineering, activism, poetry, politics and physics. Women of all ages, and from all over the world, have excelled in these fields - and so many more - despite the barriers they've had to... -
Women and Children First: Bravery, love and fate: the untold story of the doomed Titanic by Gill Paul 9781847563255
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.78Praise for Gill Paul: 'A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story... A triumph.' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Gripping, romantic and evocative of its time.' LULU TAYLOR ... -
The Archaeology of Roman York by Adam Parker
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.60When soldiers of the Roman 9th Legion arrived in AD 70, they built a fortress and this huge military camp formed the foundation of the modern city of York. Roman legionaries were garrisoned in the... -
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols by Genevieve Von Petzinger
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language... -
Harvest by Jim Crace 9780330445672
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.79The inspiration behind the Major Motion Picture starring Caleb Landry Jones'Extraordinary' - The Guardian'Inimitably excellent' - Boyd Tonkin, IndependentAs late summer steals in and the final pearls... -
Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Nicola Tallis, one of our great popular historians.' Alison WeirThe first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.Cousin to Elizabeth I - and very likely... -
Medieval Essays by Christopher Dawson 9780813210179
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35A comprehensive collection of essays from the Middle Ages, this text ranges from the fateful days of the late Roman Empire to the final destruction of Byzantium, from the rise of Islam to the... -
Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting by John Tusa
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $5.37John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His... -
Soldiers: German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Sonke Neitzel 9780307948335
Booksplease Price: $24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948335Author Sonke NeitzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
A Journey by Tony Blair
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only living Labour leader to have won a... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.13Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The... -
How to Fight a War Mike Martin 9781911723875
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75An indispensable guide to understanding modern warfare, especially the decisions made by politicians and generals-both good and bad. Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs,... -
London's Docklands: An Illustrated History by Geoff Marshall 9780750987790
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.43London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transformed: starting at Canary Wharf and continuing at the... -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the wars end as Hitler s bodyguard, courier, orderly and... -
Once Upon a Time in Iraq James Bluemel 9781785944574
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29In war, there is no easy victory.When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $7.04Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the... -
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so... -
Sabine’s War: One woman. Three concentration camps. A remarkable true story of survival. by Eva Taylor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.' Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling...