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The War of the Motor Gun Boats: One Man's Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces, 1943-1945 by A J Chapman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Tony Chapman was born in Southampton in 1924. Aged 16 he watched with horror as the historic High Street of Southampton burnt to the ground in a firestorm caused by a heavy German bombing raid on the... -
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781471156519
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide... -
East and West by Christopher Patten 9780330373081
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor of the colony of Hong Kong. He explains why he... -
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture,... -
D-Day 1944: Omaha Beach: Pt. 1: Omaha Beach by Steven Zaloga 9781841763675
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.96The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. During the late Spring and early summer of 1944 the roads and ports of southern England were thronged... -
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony Cyril Sutton
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.26Breaking 170 years of secrecy, this intriguing expose takes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale's mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them... -
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo by Michela Wrong 9781841154220
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.71'Joyous ... a book that makes other journalists weep with envy' The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account' Sunday Times ... -
KJV Study Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Red Letter Edition: Second Edition by 9781401679484
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $33.50The best-selling study Bible in the King James Version-now updated, with added features. Trusted for 25 years, The King James Study Bible has dependable notes and annotations from scholars you can... -
Ritual of Fire by D. V. Bishop
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.26The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author'It's hard to think of a better guide than D. V. Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence' - Andrew Taylor,... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 Steve Waugh 9781510403253
Booksplease Price: $8.58Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula... -
The Little History of Norfolk by John A. Davies 9780750985765
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.35Embark upon a journey through Norfolk's eventful history, from the earliest times to the present day. From the discovery of fossil footprints dating back nearly one million years, to Boudica's... -
All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive Dalal Mawad 9781399406260
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Lebanese journalist Dalal Mawad investigates the modern history of Lebanon from the port explosion and civil war to the role of Hezbollah and Israel - and weaves an extraordinary story of survival,... -
Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford 9780349113951
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning... -
Illustrated Tales of Suffolk by John Ling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The historical county of Suffolk has a host of strange and mysterious tales ranging from ancient legends and stories of the supernatural to more modern documented cases. These strange and spooky... -
The Little Book of Canada by Orange Hippo! 9781800694132
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42Canada is repeatedly ranked the world's most favourite tourist destination. And there's a lot of reasons why. It is a nation of vast, unspoiled wilderness, and yet you still get the feeling everyone... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.40'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable'... -
The Toddler-In-Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency by Daniel W Drezner
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $19.08"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."--An anonymous... -
On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9781907312540
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $10.99Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman... -
The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland by Ben Jackson 9781108793186
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $26.73Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. The origins of Scottish nationalism lie... -
Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe - Vol 1: Jet Fighters 1939 -1945: 2019: 1 by Dan Sharp 9781911658085
RRP: $36.85Booksplease Price: $30.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658085Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackImprint -
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution by Mark Roseman
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.37At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and... -
Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr 9781471139802
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Beautifully written and deeply researched' The Observer Upon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia... -
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Judith M. Bennett
Booksplease Price: $61.60The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays... -
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.39Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Wartime Story of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and... -
What It Is Like To Go To War Karl Marlantes 9780857893802
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined... -
ShipCraft 33: British Light Cruisers 2: Town, Colony and later classes by Les Brown 9781399037532
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the... -
Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066 by Andrew Gimson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDA book for all lovers of history: the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs - from 1066... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby Martyn Johnson 9780751547771
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and... -
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It... -
A Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens by Advolly Richmond 9780711282223
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.24Garden and social historian Advolly Richmond (of Gardener's World) unravels the surprising histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens. Have you ever wondered where your favourite garden flowers... -
The Homeric Hymns by Michael Crudden
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted...' Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the... -
Edward II (Penguin Monarchs): The Terrors of Kingship by Christopher Given-Wilson
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness'The reign... -
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently,... -
Venice: A Sketchbook Guide by Matthew Rice
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbookMatthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny... -
The Making of the English Landscape by W. G. Hoskins
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.72W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest record we have of the past, and with his... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Medicine Through Time, c1250-Present by Ian Dawson
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $31.20Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace,... -
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century: The British Abroad by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.55Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of... -
Royal Air Force: The Official Story James Holland 9781787394230
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36Royal Air Force: The Official Story is the most up-to-date official history of the Royal Air Force - the oldest airforce in the world. From its genesis in the horrors of the First World War when... -
The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by James Ker-Lindsay
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.25For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the...