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Berlin Intelligence Map 9781870067331
RRP: $6.63Booksplease Price: $6.27Published specially by After the Battle to coincide with the suspension of Allied occupation rights in Berlin in October 1990, this map was produced in 1944 by the War Office and lists the location... -
Gratitude by Delphine de Vigan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.41'Extraordinary ... The beating heart of this novel is the exquisite empathy it demonstrates ... There is a gentle magnificence at work in its pages' Irish Times 'Tender, poignant and heartfelt ... A... -
MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns Alejandro de Quesada 9781780963884
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons. Portable and with folding stocks, both were widely issued to airborne troops and became the hallmark... -
King: The epic Sunday Times bestselling conclusion to the Lionheart series by Ben Kane 9781409197867
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09The thrilling next instalment in the epic LIONHEART series from Sunday Times Bestselling author, Ben Kane.WarleaderAutumn 1192. With Jerusalem still in the Saracens' hands, and a peace treaty agreed... -
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut... -
Dublin and the Viking World by Howard Clarke
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.07Dig through the layers of time to find the Viking past beneath our city streets. Shipbuilding, praying, raiding, trading and playing - Viking customs and habits are brought to life in this richly... -
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle 9780198815594
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.22'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas... -
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to!' - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural... -
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan 9781783352661
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA... -
Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.83Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described 'a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its... -
A History of the Samurai: Legendary Warriors of Japan by Jonathan Lopez-Vera 9784805315354
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.75A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end-an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the... -
Watching War Films With My Dad by Al Murray 9780099580348
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Al Murray's (AKA The Pub Landlord) musing on his childhood where his fascination with history and all things war began.Have you ever watched a film with someone who, at the most dramatic scene,... -
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book... -
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24Set against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and... -
The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses Paul Simpson 9781780338286
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07An incredible 30,000 flights - at least - arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don't, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go... -
Survival in the Killing Fields Haing Ngor 9781841197937
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Best known for his academt award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn... -
Born Fearless: From Kids' Home to SAS to Pirate Hunter - My Life as a Shadow Warrior by Phil Campion
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The explosive true story of a gun for hire.'Hard eyes stare out of massive beards, their faces marked by the scars of battle. With these guys their webbing looks like it belongs to them, rather than... -
Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel by Elias Chacour
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.47As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II Joanna Lumley 9781529375923
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good HousekeepingA sparkling... -
Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. In Jonathan Powell's masterly... -
Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Goetz Aly
Booksplease Price: $16.95Without diminishing the guilt of German perpetrators, Aly documents the involvement of all of Europe in the destruction of the Jews, once again deepening our understanding of this most tormented... -
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain by Marc Morris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as... -
Safe Passage by Ida Cook
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.75'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary... -
Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Taylor 9780199766239
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36By long convention, "American history" began during the early seventeenth century along the Atlantic Seaboard with the English colonies at Jamestown in Virginia and Plymouth in New England. From that... -
Emperor of Rome by Robert Fabbri 9781782397106
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The final, thrilling instalment in the epic Vespasian series from the bestselling author, Robert Fabbri.Rome, AD 68. Vespasian is tasked with the impossible. Should he quell the revolt in Judaea, as... -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid,... -
The Man on the Grassy Knoll by Anonymous 9780615531557
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615531557Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint -
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf 9781848310308
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Everything about [this] book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing'... -
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history. Ridiculously good' Dan SnowIf your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal?Moscow 1945... -
A History of Religious Ideas: v. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $28.29"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and... -
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor D Hanson 9781541673526
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $26.53A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible... -
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: $49.57Booksplease Price: $40.82Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the... -
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy by David Starkey 9780007307722
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one... -
Hitler’s National Socialism by Rainer Zitelmann 9781852527907
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $38.38Using a previously unparalleled range of sources, this book reconstructs Hitler’s thought processes and objectives. It shows that Hitler developed a concept of “NATIONAL SOCIALISM” in which... -
Meet the Ancient Romans by James Davies
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $7.37There's so much to digest when it comes to History - how do you know where to begin? These incredible short introductions are just the thing for readers who are beginning to explore ancient history... -
British Campaign Medals 1914-2005 Peter Duckers 9780747806493
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.06This book surveys the medals awarded to British personnel for military service around the world and in two world wars. The campaign medals awarded for the military actions have become a popular field... -
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny 9780140261011
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this... -
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.21'A brilliant tour-de-force' - Times Literary SupplementBomber Command is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War... -
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.24Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer...