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The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England by Dr Jonathan Healey
RRP: £30.00£19.57A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR A major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world 'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and... -
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
RRP: £10.99£7.77Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns.Caesar's narrative offers insights into his military strategy & paints a fascinating... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 by John Wright
£4.99Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.09After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to... -
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780141993515
RRP: £16.99£12.28A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian)Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla... -
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones 9781786692689
RRP: £25.00£19.22The top five Sunday Times bestseller. 'Breathtaking' Daily Mail. 'Astonishing' Sun. 'Shimmering' Spectator. 'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria... -
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99£12.48A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThomas Cromwell is one of the... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise by Richard N. Langlois
RRP: £42.00£33.04A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism,... -
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Van Hulle 9781851246182
RRP: £40.00£30.67Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to write, cut and rewrite their words, often many times, in... -
Harvest by Jim Crace
RRP: £10.99£7.51Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2014 James Tait Black PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionAs... -
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service 9781529065824
RRP: £30.00£20.64'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich'This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama' - GuardianIn Blood on the Snow, Robert Service... -
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
£12.80Cornelius Ryan tells the story of the hours that preceded and followed H-Hour of D-Day ? June 6, 1944, when as dawn approached, as paratroopers fought in the hedgerows of Normandy, the greatest armada the world had ever known assembled off the beach --... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781936594351
RRP: £10.20£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594351Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm -
National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986: Another Look by Michael Hitchen
RRP: £15.99£10.85The erstwhile National Bus Company was the largest bus company in the world and like any large organisation, it required auxiliary vehicles to support its core activities. Formed of around thirty-six local constituent companies and the 'NATIONAL'... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd 9781783966219
RRP: £25.00£17.19___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle... than you will by reading a... -
A History of Rome by Marcel Le Glay 9781405183277
RRP: £31.95£29.29Spanning 1,300 years, this popular history of Rome has been thoroughly revised and updated, reinforcing its stature as an indispensable resource on the history and enduring influence of one of the world's greatest empires. New format: two-color text... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750997508
RRP: £12.99£9.62Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse ... These are the women behind the infamous men - complex... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the American War of Independence by Digby Smith
RRP: £19.99£15.28The uniforms of the fighting men of the American War of Independence are a vivid illustration of the difficulties and complexities of the conflict, and this book brings together for the first time a sweeping survey of what they should have worn, what... -
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident by Peter Stanford
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn BraggThe 31st of October 2017... -
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler
RRP: £19.99£14.68In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in rebellion, targeting both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller'... -
Phaedo by Plato 9780198140146
£43.53PhaedoBook InformationISBN 9780198140146Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 187mm * 124mm * 17mm -
The Month that Changed the World: July 1914 by Gordon Martel
RRP: £26.49£20.57On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the 'guilty' person or state... -
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie
RRP: £9.99£5.82INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME When news of the budding romance between a beloved English... -
Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club by Kit Holden
RRP: £14.99£10.92SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 (FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR) ------------ A club on the rise. A city in flux. This is Union Berlin. No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East... -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: £19.99£13.85***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events... -
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused by Mike Dash
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A fascinating exploration of human greed and self-delusion and also a tribute to our ageless search for beauty' DEBORAH MOGGACH.In 1630s' Holland thousands of people, from the wealthiest merchants to the lowest street traders, were caught up in a frenzy... -
From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087-1216 by A. L. Poole 9780192852878
£63.71This illuminating book provides an account of a century and a half of English medieval history, beginning with the compilation of the Domesday Book and culminating in the issue of the Magna Carta and the subsequent civil war. A. L. Poole assesses the... -
The English Civil War: A Military History by Peter Gaunt
RRP: £21.99£19.28Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July... -
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
RRP: £12.99£9.09When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of... -
The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £10.99£7.77ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: £14.99£11.75John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,... -
The Case for Trump (Revised) by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £14.99£14.95Donald J. Trump triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become President of the United States -- and an extremely successful one at... -
Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft by Lynn Cassells
RRP: £18.99£12.75[F]or anyone who has ever sat in a city office dreaming of owning a smallholding one day and living off the land, this book will inspire them to take the plunge. Rated 5 stars by The Telegraph I raced through this beautiful story with mounting awe and... -
Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival by Geoff Doughty
RRP: £32.00£29.21Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making.In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of... -
The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99£6.70FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments... -
A Spy Called Cynthia by Anonymous Anonymous 9781785907128
RRP: £12.99£9.26Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed Cynthia, was a glamorous American socialite recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry and from the Italian and Vichy French embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets... -
Bolts from the Blue: From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff by Sir Richard Johns
RRP: £14.99£10.95Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft. For the next nine years, apart from a short intermission as an ADC, he served as... -
Royal Family Operations Manual: The history, dominions, protocol, residences, households, pomp and circumstance of the British Royals by Robert Jobson
RRP: £25.00£18.02This book, written by royal expert and correspondent Robert Jobson offers a complete examination of the British Royal Family, looking behind the scenes at the current heirs of a kingdom that has been ruled nearly uninterruptedly by a monarch since 774AD... -
Florence: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £25.00£18.62This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will...