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Brighton at War 1939-45 by Douglas d'Enno
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the... -
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis SimpsonOne of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian... -
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury 9781529365795
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07'DEVASTATINGLY AFFECTING' THE TIMES'EMOTIONALLY COMPELLING' OBSERVERIn 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring plan: to smuggle all her pupils out of Nazi Germany... -
Testament: The new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the bestselling Master of Adventure, Wilbur Smith by Wilbur Smith 9781838776374
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.41An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith.FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST RISEFOR THE GLORY OF EGYPTYears of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of... -
Famous Last Words: Confessions, Humour and Bravery of the Departing by Chris Wood
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526770899Author Chris WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s Dervla Murphy 9781780600116
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.59A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of... -
A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.78This acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old "witch" chained to a dank... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Books of 2021, The Economist 'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk... -
Wales in World War 2 by Quentin Deakin 9781800994003
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994003Author Quentin DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway by Merve Emre
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $31.96"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal... -
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century John Higgs 9781780226576
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus HoundIt is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With... -
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth by Anna Keay
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best... -
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine Professor Steve Jones 9781408705940
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.27Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an... -
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age by Charles H. Hapgood 9780932813428
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $22.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813428Author Charles HapgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant Jeremy Musson 9780719597305
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people... -
Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk. In a... -
Century Sisters: Our Hundred Years by Patricia Owtram
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76The redoubtable Owtram sisters, best-selling authors of Codebreaking Sisters, take us back in time once again with recently rediscovered diaries and letters from the '20s and 30s that paint a vivid... -
Scarborough Through Time by Mike Hitches
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Famous as a seaside holiday resort, Scarborough was believed to have been established by Norsemen around 966 ad, although the area had been attacked several times before the Norman Conquest. Indeed,... -
Oxford by Matthew Rice 9780711295711
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $19.83Discover Oxford, one of the jewels of European architecture. Much loved and much visited, the city offers an unparalleled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew... -
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips 9781472283405
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.38'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx... -
Scottish History: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself Dr David Allan 9781473608726
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Scottish History: A Complete Introduction is a comprehensive guide to the exciting story of this nation, from pre-history right through to the present day. With the question of Scottish independence... -
Shokaku-Class Aircraft Carriers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.02The aircraft carriers of the Shokaku class are generally regarded as being the most-successful carriers designed by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They became operational just prior to the Pearl Harbor... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival... -
ClearRevise Cambridge IGCSE Computer Science 0478/0984: 2021 by 9781910523384
Booksplease Price: $11.58Illustrated revision and practice.Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of IGCSE Computer Science revision guide. This clear study guide has been expertly compiled and edited by... -
The Man in the Iron Mask: The Truth about Europe's Most Famous Prisoner by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $15.41The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic gaoler, dark and sinister dungeons - and a... -
The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt 9781801108195
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48A gripping account of the ascent of Rome - from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire. 'An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject' The Spectator Starting... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores... -
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II: Owners' Workshop Manual by Haynes
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.561972 to date (all marks), Dubbed 'Warthog' - or just 'Hog' - the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is the world's undisputed close air-support attack jet. As tough as it is ugly, it has built a... -
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and... -
An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland Edward Burke 9781786941039
Booksplease Price: $48.03This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Army's campaign in Northern Ireland. Drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including... -
War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.73Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the... -
Singapore Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.68Singapore Then and Now brings together rare archival images of this global city-state and matches them with specially commissioned photos of the same sites as they appear today. Vaughan Grylls... -
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56If you loved American Sniper you will love Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. Award-winning journalist Sean Naylor, an eyewitness to the action, vividly portrays the fight... -
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most important and dangerous leaders.Former New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee... -
Belonging: A Memoir of Place, Beginnings and One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies by Catherine Corless 9781529339789
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Iran: Dictatorship and Development Fred Halliday 9780861546770
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.56Originally completed mere months before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Fred Halliday's study of twentieth-century Iran was not only incredibly timely but a deeply researched, thought-provoking work... -
Everton FC on This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year by Neil Roberts 9781908051844
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36From great triumphs to great escapes Everton FC On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the club's history. A club which was a founder member of both the Football... -
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair 9781473630833
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very... -
Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944: The demolition of Army Group Center Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781472853950
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Center. Operation Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been... -
Snowdonia: 10 Leisurely Walks by 9780319092323
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61Each walk features a simple-to-follow route profile and accompanying description and pictures, and new-look walk mapping that makes it easier for the user to focus on the route and the points of...