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Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History by DK
RRP: £30.00£22.55Immerse 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... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad
RRP: £20.00£14.29'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of The Eternal City, and global civilization... -
Glasgow A History by Michael Meighan
RRP: £17.99£12.09Located on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering for the world. Its docks would see huge numbers of exports. But Glasgow is much more than this; it is a... -
SBS - Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History by Saul David 9780008394561
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year' JAMES HOLLAND 'Riveting ... A brilliant account' DAILY MAIL ... -
The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin 9780752809328
RRP: £8.99£6.20The original THE BIBLE CODE - a phenomenal bestseller across the worldFor 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future.The code, broken by an Israeli mathematician, foretells... -
The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot 9780486260303
RRP: £20.99£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486260303Author Philip HoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History by Ben Mezrich
RRP: £8.99£6.45A gripping and shocking insight into Russia's most influential oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires.To understand the state of Russia today, one must understand... -
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock
RRP: £22.00£16.02A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2023. A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2023. One of History Workshop's 'Radical... -
The Unlikely Duke: Memoirs of an eclectic life - from rock 'n' roll to Badminton House by Harry Beaufort 9781399725194
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius'. --- Jools Holland'So funny ... bristling with glamorous but eccentric characters'. --- Jilly Cooper'Very funny and touching, gentle, wise and unpretentious. This is... -
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady 9780141996271
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting... -
On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There by Julieann Campbell
RRP: £12.99£8.60SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE*****'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS gas-choked streets, dumping them right in the heart of the... -
The Modified Bulleid Pacifics: How Ron Jarvis Reconstructed the Bulleid Pacifics by Tim Hillier-Graves 9781526721662
RRP: £40.00£29.39Oliver Bulleid's Pacifics were perhaps the most controversial steam locomotives ever built in Britain. They seem to been loved and loathed in equal measure and the debate over their strengths and weaknesses took on a new dimension when BR decided to... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century,... -
Europe's 100 Greatest Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
RRP: £30.00£21.95READERS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY WILL LOVE THIS BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED BOOK!"Simon Jenkins has provided a feast for both eyes and mind in this sumptuously illustrated guide to Europe's greatest cathedrals" John Barton, author of A History of the Bible"As ever,... -
In the Service of the Sultan by Ian Gardiner 9781844154678
RRP: £19.99£14.28While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region... -
A World Lit Only by Fire by W MANCHESTER 9780316545310
RRP: £28.00£18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316545310Author W MANCHESTERFormat HardbackImprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 643g -
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804183793
RRP: £12.99£8.73A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey... -
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis by Richard Whatmore 9780241523421
RRP: £30.00£21.35'A brilliant and revelatory book about the history of ideas' David Runciman 'Fascinating and important' Ruth Scurr The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural... -
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory by Evan Mawdsley 9780300255454
RRP: £20.00£16.98The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen... -
Surviving Hell: The brutal true story of a Chennai Six prisoner by Nick Dunn
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Truly remarkable' DAMIEN LEWISTrapped in a living nightmare, former-para Nick Dunn, one of the 'Chennai Six', was wrongly imprisoned in an Indian jail.While battling to be heard both at home and abroad, Nick summoned the resilience and endurance of his... -
The Mick Ronson Story: Turn and Face the Strange by Rupert Creed 9780857162267
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the new leading biography of guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and musician Mick Ronson. Most famous for his critical contribution to David Bowie's spectacular live band, the Hull-based Spiders from Mars, and studio albums including Hunky... -
The Moment We Meet: Stories of love, hope and chance encounters by the No. 1 bestselling author by Sheila O'Flanagan
RRP: £8.99£6.20Who you meet can change your life for ever...A wonderful collection of short stories from Sheila O'Flanagan, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE MISSING WIFE and THE HIDEAWAY. The Moment We Meet was previously published as Destinations. Featuring an... -
Noises After Dark: Memoirs of a Doctor in East Africa by John Tomlinson 9781803137070
RRP: £9.99£7.11"When I went to medical school, I never dreamt, that as a doctor, one day the biggest contribution I would make to people's health, would be to hand out plastic sheets and blankets under armed guard." Moved by the devastating media coverage of the... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: £14.99£9.80When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build,... -
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'[An] engaging and... -
The German Army 1939–45 (2): North Africa & Balkans by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £12.99£11.01Hitler first considered an invasion of Great Britain in autumn 1940, then scheduled Operation Barbarossa, the conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union, for May 1941. Anxious to emulate Hitler's successes, the Italian dictator Mussolini embarked... -
The Lost World Of The Kalahari: With 'The Great and the Little Memory' by Laurens Van der Post
RRP: £10.99£7.77Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... -
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: £12.99£9.70Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief - a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: 'Passionate and deeply moving... when Preston writes about... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
RRP: £12.99£9.09_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli
RRP: £9.99£7.11When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780141441252
RRP: £9.99£7.11Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked... -
Thames Path in London: From Hampton Court to Crayford Ness: 50 miles of historic riverside walk by Phoebe Clapham
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fully revised and updated. This comprehensive guide to the London section of the Thames Path Trail Guide covers the route from Hampton Court in the east to the Thames Barrier in the west, with an extension into Crayford Ness. From the Mesolithic Period... -
Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War,... -
Inside 10 Rillington Place: John Christie and me, the untold truth by Peter Thorley
RRP: £8.99£6.4510 Rillington Place: the house of death.John Reginald Halliday Christie and Timothy John Evans were hanged after a series of brutal murders in the 1940s and 1950s.But should they both have been executed?The sole survivor who grew up with Christie and... -
Christmas Hope for the Steel Girls (The Steel Girls, Book 2) by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: £9.99£5.82With the country at war, can they come together this winter? 'A heart-warming story perfect for saga lovers', Nancy Revell,Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shipyard Girls series 'Heartwarming, hopeful and... -
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre
RRP: £19.99£14.42This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign and its main events. Biographical portraits of the 56 principal... -
The Village that Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge by Patrick Wright
RRP: £18.99£13.75Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up... -
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £35.00£26.64From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach... -
Terrible Trenches Field Book by Terry Deary 9781407191171
RRP: £12.99£7.94Puts the Terrible Trenches in a whole new light! With fact file fold-outs, trench letters and much, much more. This commemorative guide to life on the Front Line marks 100 years since the end of the war with... -
The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £19.99£13.75The Complete Roman Army draws on archaeology, ancient art and original documentary sources to present the most convincing picture ever published of the world's most famous fighting machine. Every aspect of the Roman army, from the daily lives of...