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Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122210Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
You Don't Want to Know: The grisly, jaw-dropping and most macabre moments from history, nature and beyond James Felton 9780751580808
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was... -
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs 9780099574873
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98From the bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight, this is the riveting story of the last six months of World War II, when the hopeful Allied situation inspired by the Yalta Conference descended... -
China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.03Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a... -
My Boy Jack? Tonie Holt 9781844157044
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Republished to coincide with the new ITV film, My Boy Jack? starring Daniel Radcliffe, this is the full account of the tragic life of John 'Jack" Kipling. On 27th September 1915 John Kipling, the... -
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381... -
Selected Works by Cicero
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer,... -
Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian, with Original Texts Martin Worthington 9781473627802
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $43.60Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Babylonian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the... -
The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England by Teresa Cole
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.801066 saw three kings of England, the last of whom was William, Duke of Normandy. Tradition tells us the conquest of England by the powerful Normans was inescapable, and suggests England benefited... -
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by John Thomson 9780486281216
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281216Author John ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint < -
Legendary Lighthouses of Britain: An Illustrated Guide to the Sentinels that Guard Our Shore by Roger O'Reilly 9781786788115
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.14This is a unique celebration of 100 of the most dramatic and storied lighthouses along the coasts of Britain. Illustrated with fantastic retro art by award-winning artist Roger O'Reilly, this guide... -
The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius by Julius Caesar
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one... -
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all by Lizzy Tiffin 9780008687083
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.01You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? ... -
Coastal Walks Around Anglesey: Twenty Two Circular Walks Exploring the Isle of Anglesey AONB by Carl Rogers
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902512204Author Carl RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King by Terry Breverton
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.44Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the... -
Rolls-Royce at Derby by Malcolm Bobbit
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914978Author Malcolm BobbitFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock 9780006863748
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.25Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and... -
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets... -
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds Katie Spalding 9781472294081
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you... -
Florence: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.53This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence... -
Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes About Prehistoric Women by Thomas Cirotteau
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054784Author Thomas CirotteauFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint
Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.36'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' EconomistWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may...
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley 9781939438119
Booksplease Price: $43.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438119Author Carroll QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 838Imprint
Major & Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Normandy Landing Beaches by 9781848840799
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33This guide book covers the present-day battlefield, and the actions that took place on and immediately behind the D-Day beaches, and Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Guide to Normandy has been put...
Essential SQA Exam Practice: National 5 History Questions and Papers by John Kerr
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $13.31Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA National 5 History exam with...
The story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross: the history, the actors, and the architect Robert Adam by Adrian Tindall 9781915067432
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.77The Bury St Edmunds Market Cross stands at the heart of the town. Designed in 1774 by the celebrated architect Robert Adam, this 'neat and beautiful theatre' is celebrated as a brilliant example of...
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted...
Columba's Iona: A New History by Rosalind K. Marshall 9781908737144
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.77In May 2013 it will be exactly 1450 years since the arrival on Iona of Columba, the imperious and energetic Irishman of royal descent who founded its famous monastery and became Scotland's best known...
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals...
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen by Rosemary Goring
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56DISCOVER 2,000 YEARS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT - FROM THE ROMAN INVASION TO THE SNP PARLIAMENTARY VICTORY IN 2007.Featuring writing from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver...
The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual: The Official Field-Manuals for Espionage, Spycraft and Counter-Intelligence by Philip Parker
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860021Author Philip ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser 9780714685007
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.62This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine...
The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361118Author Neema ParviniFormat PaperbackImprint
Epic Iran: 5000 Years of Culture by John Curtis
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.63Iran was home to some of the greatest civilizations of both the ancient and medieval worlds, but these achievements are now little known outside the country. Epic Iran brings together 250 fascinating...
Anglo-Saxon Kings and Warlords AD 400–1070 by Dr Raffaele D’Amato 9781472855350
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest. In a...
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.38'What we build always reveals things that are deeply and innately human. Because all buildings are stories, one way or another.' Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James...
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The bestselling murder mystery from Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award'Wonderful' The...
Access to History: Rebellion and Disorder under the Tudors, 1485-1603 for Edexcel Roger Turvey 9781510423473
Booksplease Price: $30.96Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining...
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.16Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership.With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a...