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Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £30.00£21.35A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £9.99£7.32The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event,... -
The Outside Boy Jeanine Cummins 9781472272836
RRP: £10.99£7.87'A full-throated song of praise. I loved it' Sherman AlexieIreland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. ... -
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
RRP: £14.99£10.95Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on... -
The Celts: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £8.99£6.65Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their real nature has been obscured by a tangled web of... -
Hitler and the Final Solution by Gerald Fleming
RRP: £27.00£21.06Fleming is the only scholar given access to the interrogations of the German civilian crematoria engineers lying inaccessible, until a few months ago, in Moscow. This historically important information finally places the last stone in the mosaic of... -
Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £30.00£23.69Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of... -
DK Eyewitness Hungary DK Eyewitness 9780241306246
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Hungary.Experience luxurious spas, wander the historic Castle District in Budapest or explore the immense Hortobagy... -
SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £22.00£12.89'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war' Mail on SundayDamien Lewis's new bestseller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and... -
Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trevor Royle
RRP: £16.99£11.94One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate... -
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
RRP: £12.99£9.19Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo,... -
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World Laura Spinney 9781784702403
RRP: £10.99£7.99Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a... -
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu 9780521369749
RRP: £36.99£33.65The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750. This lucid translation... -
Falling Sky: The brand new 2022 historical thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller by Harry Sidebottom 9781838778033
RRP: £9.99£7.05AD 265, Gaul - The Roman Empire is on the brink.Emperor Gallienus has amassed a huge army across the Alps to seize back the mountains from the usurper Postumus.War has come.Ballista and his cavalry are on the frontline, battling in the most brutal of... -
Women's History London Map: Guide to Historical Women in London by Katie Wignall 9781912018116
RRP: £9.95£7.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018116Author Katie WignallPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40g -
A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos
RRP: £12.99£8.80This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime... -
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface Olivia Laing 9781786891587
RRP: £10.99£7.54Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through... -
She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Boudica to Greta by Yvette Cooper
RRP: £8.99£6.28Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition.A Guardian Book of the Year.Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is very different -... -
Anzio: The Friction of War Lloyd Clark 9780755314218
RRP: £10.99£7.61This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'. ANZIO - THE... -
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Lovell
RRP: £8.99£6.65Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union,... -
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell 9781108971454
RRP: £14.99£11.93Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre... -
A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic by Alice Tarbuck
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, shadowy, in the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes of history - from medieval witches burning at the stake to the lurid glamour of... -
The Heretic's Mark by S. W. Perry 9781786499004
RRP: £9.99£6.90'Historical fiction at its most sumptuous' Rory Clements'S. J. Parris fans will be pleased' Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling, CWA Historical Dagger Award-nominated author of The Angel's Mark comes a gripping and atmospheric new mystery . . ... -
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £10.99£7.46The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S... -
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: £10.99£7.54Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the... -
Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £35.00£34.31The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy,... -
The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland by Sam Heughan
RRP: £16.99£4.81A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland. 'If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up... -
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore Bettany Hughes 9781845952143
RRP: £25.00£18.30As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to... -
The Two Faces of American Freedom by Aziz Rana
RRP: £21.95£19.16The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and... -
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which... -
Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
RRP: £60.00£44.79Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history... -
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Graham
RRP: £8.99£6.65This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins and course, and explores its impact on a personal and international scale. It also provides an ethical reflection on the war in the context of Europe's... -
Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2 Alison Weir 9781472227669
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' GuardianAnne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008437015
RRP: £10.99£7.46'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY ... -
Elizabeth by Christopher Haigh 9780582437548
£40.40The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and growth in British history, the so-called 'Golden Age'. This celebrated and influential study of Elizabeth reconsiders how she achieved this and the ways in which she... -
The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings by Tim Clarkson 9781780271736
RRP: £9.99£6.90During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were... -
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.00£8.68A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and... -
Studying History by Donald M. MacRaild
RRP: £24.99£20.58This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style. Fully updated throughout, further advice on using web-based... -
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
RRP: £9.99£7.32Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary... -
Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Elizabeth Wilson
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting...