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Anglo-Saxon England by Sir Frank M. Stenton 9780192801395
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $25.53'outstanding ... one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land' English Historical Review This book covers the emergence of the earliest... -
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History, and Us by Christophe Bonneuil
Booksplease Price: $30.36The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into... -
The Coming of the Wolf: The Wild Hunt series prequel by Elizabeth Chadwick 9780751577655
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $4.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof Roger Clarke 9780141048086
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.44The fascinating true history of ghosts - how we see them and why we believe in them, from Roger ClarkeWhat explains spectral sightings? Why do we fear the supernatural? What proof is there? Growing... -
The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the... -
The Jewish War by Josephus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus... -
Tumult in the Clouds: The Centenary Collection by James Goodson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic... -
Venice by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.85In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty. He leads us... -
Lucifer'S Court: A Heretic's Journey in Search of the Light Bringers by Otto Rahn
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Otto Rahn's lifelong search for the Grail brought him to the attention of the SS leader Himmler, who shared his esoteric interests. Induced by Himmler to become the chief investigator of the occult... -
The Scottish Nation: A Modern History by T. M. Devine
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR and NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from the... -
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History by Peter H. Wilson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'A definitive study of the amorphous state that lasted a thousand years ... The Holy Roman Empire deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus' Tom... -
Shots in the Dark: A Diary of Saturday Dreams and Strange Times by David Kynaston
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'I loved every page, and ended up admiring David Kynaston, our greatest social historian, even more than I already did' Nick Hornby Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries... -
The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.44In this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a wartime secret to protect the innocent. Now, could telling it set her free? Tuscany, 1943... -
Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War by Grace M. Cho
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Since the Korean War-the forgotten war-more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $6.59LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Alex Renton has done Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our frequently... -
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Joseph Farrell 9781848668812
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last... -
The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland by Alistair Moffat 9781841589589
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the... -
The Little Book of Yorkshire by Geoffrey Howse
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88The Little Book of Yorkshire is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most... -
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison 9781789544701
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.28Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born - in 1866 - of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as... -
Chinese Whispers: A stunning race-against-time serial killer thriller (China Thriller 6) by Peter May
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.91THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing... -
A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.82History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future. This is a history of... -
Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9784805311981
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese... -
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A wonderfully fresh, vivid and engaging portrait.' Jane Ridley, author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII'Has much of the abundant charm of its author.' Spectator'The glory of this book is in the... -
Secret Staines-upon-Thames and Laleham by Jill Armitage 9781398115569
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.91Staines-upon-Thames and its neighbour Laleham are 19 miles west of central London, linked by road and river. Because of the stranded or braided character of the river here, when the Romans came in AD... -
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad 9780099569596
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's... -
BBC Sports Report: A Celebration of the World's Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023 by Pat Murphy 9781472994219
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Sports Report is as much a 75-year history of sport as a BBC radio institution and Pat Murphy pays... -
Devon and Cornwall's Oddest Historical Tales by John Fisher
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48The West Country's colourful past encompasses a pageant of historical figures and peculiar stories - from Lawrence of Arabia's flamboyant motorbike forays across Dartmoor and the terrifying account... -
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller by Antony Beevor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERThe great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the... -
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127161Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $18.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice Millard -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and... -
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR With contributions from Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, Jeff Harriott, Thierry Henry, Michael Johnson, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Makhaya Ntini, Naomi Osaka, Hope... -
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.31'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean... -
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber Leo McKinstry 9780719523632
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without... -
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity by Andrew Leigh 9780063383784
RRP: $34.84Booksplease Price: $20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063383784Author Andrew LeighFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander by Jonathan Gosling
Booksplease Price: $22.77This is a one-of-a-kind look at Nelson and his leadership skills. Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson has been widely admired as a celebrated and effective leader. His dynamic approach to leadership and... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life... -
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon 9780241956762
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place: shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje PrizeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn 9780008211127
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.30'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review ...