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The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore by Hilda M. Ransome 9780486434940
RRP: £14.99£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434940Author Hilda RansomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Robin: A Biography by Stephen Moss
RRP: £14.99£9.53Acclaimed naturalist and birdwatcher Stephen Moss brings us a year in the life of Britain's favourite bird - the robin. In The Robin Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the field to shed light on the hidden life... -
The Essential Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9780674417045
RRP: £25.95£21.64The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India's Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, this ambitious... -
Colours of London: A History by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00£17.38Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come to shape its history and identity. Think of the... -
The Battle of Lutzen 1632: A Reassessment by Andre Schurger 9781915113962
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113962Author Andre SchurgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
RRP: £11.99£7.59Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was one of history's great generals, a man studied by Caesar and Napoleon, among hundreds of others. He was born to the king of Macedon and educated by Aristotle, whose inquiring mind Alexander appreciated... -
Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War by Rod Macdonald
RRP: £25.00£17.62Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared will live in infamy . During the strike, Japanese planes... -
Number plates: A History of Vehicle Registration in Britain by Dave Moss 9780747805663
RRP: £6.99£5.87This title contains Ancient history: the prologue; The golden age of motoring; The post-war years: changing times, change, and change again: the arrival of computers; Modern times: a fresh start; Collectors' gold; Islands and Ireland; Curiosities and... -
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Graham
RRP: £8.99£6.45This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins and course, and explores its impact on a personal and international scale. It also provides an ethical reflection on the war in the context of Europe's... -
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £9.99£6.64An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the... -
All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
RRP: £10.99£7.93The third collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. This omnibus edition comprises of Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin. Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of London is a... -
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
RRP: £25.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199337Author David GraeberFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
RRP: £30.00£19.53A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous... -
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War by Simon Kuper
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Football history at its best' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'Hugely moving... a very good book indeed' FOUR FOUR TWO'Kuper is an original, sophisticated and adventurous writer. The story he has to tell... is fascinating and pressing' SUNDAY TIMESIn FOOTBALL AGAINST... -
OCR GCSE History Explaining the Modern World: Modern World History Period and Depth Studies by Ben Walsh
£31.37Exam board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookTrust Ben Walsh to guide you through the 9-1 GCSE specification and motivate your students to excel with his trademark mix of engaging... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
Madrid: A New Biography Luke Stegemann 9780300276336
RRP: £25.00£20.92The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it... -
A Grim Almanac of Kent by W. H. Johnson
RRP: £14.99£11.55In A Grim Almanac of Kent, W.H. Johnson has discovered a sinister, macabre or horrifying occurrence for every day of the year, and presents his readers with 365 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic events. The wicked, the mad, the foolish and the... -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow... -
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
RRP: £8.99£6.13An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an... -
The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £26.00£19.29'This is so much more than a compilation of recipes, gorgeous though they themselves are. This is a book that tells a story, both cultural and personal, and her voice is as engaging as her food' Nigella Lawson 'Barberries, fresh herbs, date molasses,... -
Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
RRP: £8.99£6.45Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for clear exposition and his ideas are less widely appreciated than they deserve. In this concise introduction, Anthony Stevens explains clearly the basic... -
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family by Jacques Peretti 9781473646452
RRP: £20.00£13.35'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking... -
Voices from the Explosion: The World's Greatest Accidental Explosion RAF Fauld Underground Bomb Store, 1944 by Valerie Hardy
RRP: £15.00£10.9675th Anniversary Special Edition The largest ever explosion in Britain was colossal - and it was accidental. On 27 November 1944 almost 4 kilotons of bombs rocked the heart of England - three times greater than fell on London during the worst night... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£15.28Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject,... -
Last Train to Hilversum by Charlie Connelly
RRP: £10.99£7.77Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week. It's a background to all our lives: we wake up to our clock radios, we... -
Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer
RRP: £20.00£14.69It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known.William Shirer is one of the very few... -
All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner
RRP: £20.00£18.02A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'He writes with a tremendous sense of fun. The result is a rare thing: not just a serious work of contemporary history, but an unashamed, 24-carat hoot' - Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Up there with the... -
Hiroshige by Adele Schlombs
RRP: £15.00£11.36Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries... -
Enquiring History: The Crusades: Conflict and Controversy, 1095-1291 by Michael Riley
£25.21Think 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... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped... -
Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments by Paul Roberts 9780500025680
RRP: £30.00£19.40A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. ‘What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The Tudors: England, 1485-1603 by Roger K. Turvey 9781471876103
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman
RRP: £41.99£40.48Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world, having sold more than 80,000 copies in its first two editions. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: £16.99£12.68THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of... -
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston 9781526657572
RRP: £30.00£21.95A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern... -
Beyond Duty: The Reasons Some Soldiers Commit Atrocities by Walter S. Zapotoczny 9781625451125
RRP: £25.00£18.54Accounts of brutality fill the history of warfare. The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, whether in war or in peace. Historians in large part have described in detail the actions of military groups that have committed... -
The Gold of the Gods by Erich von Daniken 9781948803212
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803212Author Erich von DanikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko 9780802144034
£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144034Author Arkady BabchenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
A Life Of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906 by John Richardson
RRP: £40.00£29.39From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in...