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The Armchair General World War One: Can You Win The Great War? by John Buckley 9781529901016
RRP: £18.99£14.01'The Armchair General team has done it again. An absorbing read for Christmas.'Peter Caddick-Adams'Brilliant and immersive.'Harry SidebottomThe second book in the Armchair General series, where YOU choose the fate of the First World... -
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock
RRP: £18.99£14.01The book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. Bullock divides the narrative into three main... -
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies 9780062415660
RRP: £10.99£7.25The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies's classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and... -
Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 8-9 by Andrew Jennings 9781472980984
RRP: £4.99£4.76Ideal for learning at home, Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 8-9 encourages children to supercharge their skills and become Grand Masters of vocabulary! Created by Andrew Jennings (@VocabularyNinja), the bestselling author of Write Like a Ninja,... -
The struggle continues: 50 Years of tyranny in Zimbabwe by David Coltart 9781431423187
RRP: £30.00£24.57David Coltart is one of the most prominent political and human rights figures in Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was elected to Parliament and, following the creation of a 'coalition' government in September 2008, he was appointed Minister of Education, Sport,... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping... -
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99£8.60'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 details.' The Times'Worsley's command of the material and... -
Eurovision!: A History of Modern Europe Through The World's Greatest Song Contest by Chris West 9781911545552
RRP: £9.99£6.80Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. The contest has been a mirror for cultural, social and political... -
Epigrams: With parallel Latin text by Martial
RRP: £10.99£7.77'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the... -
Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world by Karen Armstrong 9781529114799
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe -... -
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin 9781801102605
RRP: £10.99£7.51This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer... -
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
RRP: £12.99£10.78Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson 9780198767039
RRP: £12.99£9.49Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History... -
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman 9781529000450
RRP: £14.99£10.95As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize'Sherman's is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she... -
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Found naked amongst the destruction, the bodies of Darnley and his valet bore marks of strangulation... -
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman 9780008470180
RRP: £25.00£18.03*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian ... -
The Battleship Bismarck by Stefan Draminski
RRP: £35.00£28.33The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous - and notorious - warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45,000-ton German battleship sank HMS Hood, the pride of the British Navy, during one of the most sensational encounters in naval history. Following the... -
The Irish Soccer Split by Cormac Moore
RRP: £17.95£14.85The Irish Football Association (IFA) was founded in Belfast in 1880. It was the governing body for soccer for the whole of the island of Ireland. Soccer in Ireland was united for over forty years. It was, though, an uneasy alliance. Many in the south... -
The Balkans, 1804-2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers by Misha Glenny 9781783784523
RRP: £19.99£13.85'A great achievement' Timothy Garton Ash Bloodshed. Invasions. Nationalist fervor. In this classic and celebrated history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny shows how the countries on the South-Eastern edge of Europe are seen by the rest of the world, and... -
Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC-1000 BC by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £14.99£10.95This title features the latest historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the Eastern Mediterranean in the last half of the Bronze Age. Research into the origins of the so-called... -
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Dr Annabel Sowemimo 9781788169219
RRP: £10.99£7.77A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 INDIE CHAMPIONS AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023 'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO ... -
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro 9780465057955
£21.18The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: £12.99£8.60Alfred 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 gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling,... -
Adriatic: A Two Thousand-Year History of the Sea, Lands and Peoples by Caroline Boggis-Rolfe
RRP: £30.00£19.53Adriatic spans over two thousand years of history and the whole of the eastern Mediterranean region around the Adriatic sea and part of the neighbouring Ionian sea. Ever since the Romans, these lands and their peoples have experienced the coming and... -
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
£30.23One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century,... -
Uhtred’s Feast: Inside the world of the Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell 9780008352929
RRP: £22.00£14.31WELCOME TO UHTRED'S FEAST . . . Over the course of writing the Last Kingdom series, Bernard Cornwell discovered an increasing fascination for the Anglo-Saxon world: its people, their culture, and their domestic lives... -
London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes 9781910263013
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263013Author Mollie Panter-DownesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams)... -
On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn
RRP: £44.99£40.28On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and finally it is calm and compellingly reasonable. The book was widely read on both sides of the Iron Curtain and... -
Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder by Christian Parenti
RRP: £20.00£16.43In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton-sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron... -
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood 9781529111439
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values.'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant'... -
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
RRP: £8.99£6.45What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via... -
The Decade in Tory: An inventory of idiocy from the coalition to Covid by Russell Jones
RRP: £25.00£16.47In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £25.00£18.02***A Best Book of 2022, The Times******Book of the Year, Spectator***A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most... -
The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas Higham
RRP: £25.00£22.52The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English... -
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel 9781472132628
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an... -
English Civil War: 1640 to 1660 by Jonathan Falconer
£9.27The period of the English Civil War began in 1640 and lasted until the restoration of the monarchy some twenty years later. It was a divisive and disruptive episode in English history, when loyalties were tested and saw family set against family, brother... -
The Little Book of Sushi: A Pocket Guide to the Wonderful World of Sushi, Featuring Trivia, Recipes and More by Rufus Cavendish
RRP: £6.99£5.00From seaweed-wrapped maki rolls to tuna-topped nigiri, dive into this celebration of one of the world's favourite delicacies There are few foods more recognizble than sushi. Originating in Japan, the iconic fluffy white rice that's topped, wrapped or... -
The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript by Gisele Diaz 9780486275697
RRP: £20.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275697Author Gisele DiAzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)... -
The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front by Boris Kavalerchik
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superior, yet the Wehrmacht won the border battles with extraordinary ease the Red Armys tank force was pushed... -
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £10.00£6.71A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our...