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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: $38.70$27.26This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the... -
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires by Juan Ricardo Cole 9781568587837
RRP: $36.12$27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568587837Author Juan ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Luftwaffe Eagle by Walter Schuck 9781910809280
RRP: $15.42$11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809280Author Walter SchuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury
RRP: $19.34$12.64Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did brandy change the course of Irish history? Turtle Bunbury explores unexpected corners of the past to offer an informative and... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Katy Derbyshire
RRP: $12.89$9.17Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the popular television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid... -
Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science by Toni Mount
RRP: $14.18$9.35Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase 'medieval medicine' sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. In... -
All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner 9781788166737
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers' David Kynaston 'Reading Alwyn Turner's account of life in the first two decades of the 21st century is a bit like... -
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins 9781472272836
RRP: $14.18$9.55'A full-throated song of praise. I loved it' Sherman AlexieIreland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. ... -
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 9780671739164
RRP: $10.31$9.03This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey-is "a delight" (The New... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $16.76$11.04In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
RRP: $14.18$9.44Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through... -
Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings by An Van Camp 9781910807590
RRP: $32.25$22.42"This is the very best of Antwerp and the best from here in Oxford." - The Oxford Times Weekend "This entertaining exhibition of the 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low Countries has energy to spare." - The Telegraph This catalogue will... -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: $12.89$8.77'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives by Susan Tomes 9780300266573
RRP: $32.25$26.99Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the... -
King John's Right Hand Lady: The Story of Nicholaa de la Haye by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781526756060
RRP: $32.25$22.73In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers. Not once, but three times, earning herself the ironic praise that she acted 'manfully'. Nicholaa gained prominence in the First Baron's War,... -
Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society by Joseph J. Lee
RRP: $52.88$46.52Ireland, 1912-1985 is the first study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century. Although stressing the primacy of politics in Irish public affairs, it argues that Irish politics must be understood in the broad context... -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
RRP: $12.89$8.27WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads Hundreds of peaceful civilians were... -
AEthelflaed: A Ladybird Expert Book: England's Forgotten Founder by Tom Holland
RRP: $11.60$7.64DISCOVER THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMAN THAT ENGLISH HISTORY FORGOTPart of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.- Who was AEthelflaed?- What role did she play in the founding of England?- How has her legacy lasted to this day?DISCOVER the epic history of... -
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR by Isaac McKean Scarborough 9781501771026
RRP: $69.66$56.51Moscow's Heavy Shadow tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders of the USSR saw the years of reform... -
The Great Pyramid Hoax: The Conspiracy to Conceal the True History of Ancient Egypt by Scott Creighton 9781591437895
RRP: $16.76$10.55Despite millennia of fame, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 BCE is tied to only one piece of... -
Unshook Till the End of Time: A History of Relations between Britain & Oman 1650 - 1970 by Stuart Laing 9781908531070
RRP: $32.25$20.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531070Author Stuart LaingFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing -
Weapons of the Viking Warrior by Gareth Williams
RRP: $20.63$14.98Between the late 8th and late 11th century Viking warriors had a massive impact not just in northern Europe, but across a huge arc from the western Mediterranean round through northern Europe and the Baltic to the Middle East and Central Asia. Their... -
Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $16.76$11.09By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women... -
Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical by Walter Burkert
RRP: $39.93$35.93"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be... -
Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders
RRP: $12.89$9.17*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022*'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday TimesIf you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old... -
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price 9781800242302
RRP: $14.18$9.18Nicknamed The 'Wooden Wonder' for its timber frame and superb performance, the de Havilland Mosquito ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of the RAF's greatest-ever flying machines. Novel in design, operationally flexible... -
SAS and Special Forces Self Defence Handbook: A Complete Guide to Unarmed Combat Techniques by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
RRP: $25.79$18.12Written by a former Survival Instructor of the SAS, The SAS and Special Forces Self-Defence Handbook provides easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions on coping with all kinds of threatening situations, from muggings to knife attacks. The author teaches... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: $25.79$18.94The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his... -
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 9780857891600
RRP: $14.18$9.44The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin's rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist's Russia editor.'Fast-paced and excellently written' New York Times'A real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet... -
Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith 9781849540957
RRP: $14.18$10.02When Captain Ridley's shooting partyA" arrived at Bletchley Park in 1939 no-one would have guessed that by 1945 the guests would number nearly 10,000 and that collectively they would have contributed decisively to the Allied war effort. Their role? To... -
From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World by Elidor Mehilli
RRP: $47.73$42.34Elidor Mehilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mehilli's unprecedented access to previously... -
Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire by Philip Howell 9780521853651
RRP: $135.45$110.10In the nineteenth century British authorities at home and abroad attempted to regulate prostitution in order to combat the spread of venereal diseases. Philip Howell examines in detail four sites of such regulated prostitution - Liverpool, Cambridge,... -
Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises by Joint Association of Classical Teachers
RRP: $38.69$35.69First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer... -
Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $38.70$26.70In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the... -
Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz 9780691117812
RRP: $58.05$52.13This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz... -
Maya Conquistador by Matthew Restall 9780807055076
$26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055076Author Matthew RestallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 383g -
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State by Caroline Burt 9780571311989
RRP: $32.25$21.92'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter.' - DAN JONESBetween 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two... -
Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History by DK
RRP: $38.70$29.09Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline.Covering more than 1,000 years of history, and an empire...