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The Story of English by Robert McCrum
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of... -
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood by Hettie Judah 9780500027868
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $26.80'Hettie Judah's enthralling and important book expands a male-centred art history to include mothers as subjects and symbols, makers and myths' Jennifer Higgie 'One of the most electrifying and... -
CCEA A2-level History Student Guide: Partition of Ireland (1900-25) Henry Jefferies 9781510419131
Booksplease Price: $14.74Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide... -
Elizabeth I's Last Favourite: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781789045956
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Despite widespread interest in Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, little has been written about him in decades past. In Elizabeth I's Last Favourite, Sarah-Beth Watkins brings the story of his life,... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the... -
The Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) Sun Tzu 9780804848206
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the... -
The Great British Puzzle Book: Tea-break fun, come rain or shine by Dr Gareth Moore 9781472146700
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The great tea-break escape! A bumper book of fun puzzles celebrating every aspect of Britishness from Britain's King of Puzzles -- perfect to relax, de-stress and unwind, perhaps with a cup of... -
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen 9781784382667
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.88Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of... -
The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07This 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... -
Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King by Stephen Church
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry ... -
Horror In The East by Laurence Rees
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of the greatest horrors of the Twentieth Century. Here... -
RAF Duxford: A history in photographs from 1917 to the present day by Richard C. Smith 9781906502331
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87Established in 1917 to train Royal Flying Corps aircrew, during WWI Duxford was also the base for two United States Aero Squadrons, 137 and 159, and by the end was a mobilisation airfield for three... -
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most... -
Bloody Belfast: An Oral History of the British Army's War Against The IRA by Ken Wharton 9780750985475
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets... -
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial... -
Black History Walks by Tony Warner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.11From Elephant and Castle to Southwark, from London Bridge to Westminster, Black History Walks takes you through the historic Black sites around the City of London, and with the companion guide,... -
Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir by Alan Garner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. ... -
Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness by Sam McGrath
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29THE 4-WEEK FORMULA FOR ELITE PHYSICAL FITNESS ARE YOU READY TO BE PARA FIT? Transform your lifestyle and fitness with the powerful new programme from Major Sam McGrath, former commander of the... -
Tim Hetherington: IWM Photography Collection by Greg Brockett 9781912423743
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11IWM holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to the present day. Tim Hetherington... -
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg 9781785786006
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something... -
Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers: of England and Wales by 9781908402141
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.01A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. In the Victorian era, the name Bradshaw became synonymous with reliable information on travelling the nation's... -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first... -
D-Day: Minute by Minute: One historic day, hundreds of unforgettable stories by Jonathan Mayo
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the people swept up in this crucial moment in history... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg 9781398115514
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low... -
The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. ... -
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.25Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring... -
Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women Nancy Costello 9781409158295
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41"At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present sang 'Whispering Hope'. A line from that song stays in my mind - 'when the dark midnight is over, watch... -
Two Brothers by Ben Elton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Berlin 1920Two babies are born.Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love... -
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy 9781526631534
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever... -
Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History by Jeremy Harte
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; this book is the first real history of the Romany people, from the inside. Jeremy Harte vividly... -
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel 9781444757088
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world... -
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are... -
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now... -
Red for Danger: The Classic History of British Railway Disasters by L. T. C. Rolt 9780752451060
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.38Railway disasters are almost always the result of human fallibility - a single mistake by an engine-driver, guard or signalman, or some lack of communication between them - and it is in the short... -
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest... -
World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: $42.20Booksplease Price: $34.21Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison... -
The Steel Girls by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.31When war breaks out, friendship will see them through 'A heart-warming story perfect for saga lovers', Nancy Revell,Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shipyard Girls series ... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political... -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $20.39A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who...