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Great Events: Great Fire Of London Gillian Clements 9780749642518
RRP: £5.99£5.10In 1666 London is burning - a great fire sweeps through the city, destroying many buildings. Discover how the fire came about and read about its consequences. There are some moments in history that are so dramatic or important that people remember them... -
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy Henry Kissinger 9780141998688
RRP: £12.99£9.34Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the... -
The River Of Doubt: Into the Unknown Amazon by Candice Millard 9780316027144
£13.73In 1912, shortly after losing his bid to spend a third term as American President to Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt with his son Kermit, a Brazilian guide and a band of camaradas set off deep into the Amazon jungle and a very uncertain fate. Although... -
Art of Sword Combat: 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship by Joachim Meyer 9781473876750
RRP: £19.99£14.90Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng's translation of Joachim Meyer's The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden. The manuscript, produced in... -
1970s Childhood by Liza Hollinghurst
RRP: £8.99£7.17A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a playground battlefield of Sindy versus Action Man or a... -
Hurricane: The Life of Rubin Carter, Fighter by James S. Hirsch
RRP: £12.99£8.71Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison, a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed,... -
Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit by Philip Webster
RRP: £12.99£9.34An insider's account of the great political stories over the past three decades years, illustrated with Peter Brookes' iconic cartoons. Philip Webster covered politics for The Times newspaper for 43 years, including... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed... -
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips 9780861543137
RRP: £10.99£7.87A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.' Evening Standard '[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.' The Times ... -
Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £23.00£16.29Andrew Roberts's Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses who led the West to Victory in WWII tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler. During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was... -
Latin Essential Dictionary: All the words you need, every day (Collins Essential) Collins Dictionaries 9780008377380
RRP: £7.99£5.59The home of trusted Latin dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Latin to English and English to Latin dictionary for everyday use, including guidance on Latin grammar and insights into Roman culture. The clear... -
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... -
Castles: Band 07/Turquoise (Collins Big Cat) by Maggie Freeman
RRP: £6.25£6.24The book reveals how castles were built, not only for people to live in, but also to keep enemies out. Detailed illustrations show the materials that were used and special precautions that were taken to ensure castles would provide adequate defence... -
Asylum: Inside the Pauper Lunatic Asylums by Mark Davis
RRP: £15.99£10.85A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds - Dylan Thomas, 'Love in the Asylum' With the advent of 'care in the community' for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently... -
The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson 9780141984216
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language, as well as for equanimity and generosity of spirit' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, TLSA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late... -
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £12.99£9.34At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the... -
Between the Wars: 1919-1939 Philip Ziegler 9780857055231
RRP: £12.99£8.83At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international... -
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: £12.99£9.96Love, 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... -
Colouring History: The Tudors by Natalie Grueninger
RRP: £12.99£9.62This unique and beautifully illustrated colouring book features images and scenes inspired by the ever-fascinating Tudor dynasty. It will provide hours of joy and relaxation, and is a great way to unwind after a hectic day. Quiet your mind and colour... -
Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre by John Prebble
RRP: £12.99£9.34'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts... -
Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners' Strike: before, during and after by Richard Williams 9781800995031
RRP: £14.99£13.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995031Author Richard WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm * 10mm -
From A Clear Blue Sky by Timothy Knatchbull
RRP: £10.99£7.99Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award, and nominated for the PEN/JR Ackerley prize.The powerful memoir of a Mullaghmore bombing survivor___________________________________On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy... -
Burned: The Inside Story of the `Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride
RRP: £14.99£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372698Author Sam McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Hitler's Special Forces: The elite troops of the German war machine by James Lucas 9781835980057
RRP: £10.99£7.21Blood, fire and iron: An unforgettable portrait of the most feared soldiers of World War TwoIn the closing years of the 1930s, German agent-provocateurs worked in secrecy. These crack units of elite soldiers paved the way for the invasions of... -
The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: £14.99£10.05This handy guide to Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the origins of life, the creation and evolution of the world, and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the... -
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli 9781788730068
£17.23What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master... -
In God's Name David Yallop 9781845294960
RRP: £10.99£7.61The revised edition of the searing investigation into the murder of Pope John Paul I that has sold more than 6 million copies.Only thirty-three days after his election, Pope John Paul I died in strange circumstances. Almost immediately rumours of a... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £12.99£9.34Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future... -
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
RRP: £10.99£7.99Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart... -
The Silence of the Stands: Stories from Football's Lost Season by Daniel Gray
RRP: £12.99£10.04LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant ... the game's answer to A Journal of... -
The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 by Joachim Meyer 9781526771100
RRP: £25.00£18.62First published in 1570, Joachim Meyer's _The Art of Comba__t_ is among the most important texts in the rich corpus of German martial arts treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Meyer is unique in offering full recommendations on how to train for... -
The Enemy of Europe/The Enemy of Our Enemies by Francis Parker Yockey 9780942094008
RRP: £13.00£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942094008Author Francis Parker YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Women in Policing: A History through Personal Stories by Tom Andrews 9781803992495
RRP: £20.00£15.04The history of policing in Britain is a considerably under-researched subject, and the advancement of women within that history even more so. This book seeks to fill that gap, by tracking the progress of women in policing - a story that is longer and... -
The Truth About Love: Number 13 in series Stephanie Laurens 9780749937270
RRP: £10.99£7.61One of the most eligible gentlemen in the ton, Gerrard Debbington is besieged by offers from London's most sought-after beauties, but as the ton's foremost artistic lion, there's only one offer he wants to accept - the chance to paint the fantastical but... -
Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses by Jean Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.61The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: £14.99£11.11Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten.Born in the north... -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781800699090
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The Times'At first we did not understand what war was. You can't understand... -
Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland by Greg Harkin
RRP: £12.99£9.80BESTSELLER An explosive expose of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories of two undercover agents -- Brian Nelson, who worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU), aiding loyalist terrorists and murderers in their... -
Half Century, Baby! - Fifty Years of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat by David Parsons 9781911658924
RRP: £40.00£28.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658924Author David ParsonsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1357g -
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation Yaroslav Hrytsak 9781408730829
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of On Tyranny 'Ukrainian historian Yaroslav...