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How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason
RRP: $21.43$14.70'A joyously peculiar book' - The New York Times'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence. Warning: may well make readers wish they were Icelandic, too.' - Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living... -
Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Illustrated History by DK
RRP: $58.50$38.82Take a journey through Ancient Egypt and see how the pharaohs once lived!An enticing and insightful guide that covers 3000 years of life under the pharaoh's rule (c.3200-30 BCE), from the early kings of Egypt to the reign of Cleopatra and the Roman... -
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
RRP: $25.33$19.95An "excellent new biography" (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most infamous king in British history"An intricately detailed account of Richard's every recorded move on his... -
The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X. George
RRP: $54.60$53.41Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siecle fascination with the... -
The Ultimate World War II Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge by Kieran Whitworth
RRP: $19.48$13.75Published in association with the Imperial War Museums, this book will provide the ultimate challenge to even the most knowledgeable military historian.You might think you know a great deal about World War II but have you ever really tested your... -
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King 9780393351866
RRP: $27.28$24.59When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres... -
Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Guns by Will Fowler 9780754831761
RRP: $39.00$32.55This encyclopedia of firearms is both an authoritative reference work and a stunning visual directory, explaining the development of arms through the centuries. The chronological survey begins with gunpowder and the first crude 14th-century hand cannons,... -
Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works: Definitive New Translations of the Writings of Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai! Musashi 9784805316160
RRP: $23.38$16.03The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work. Plus, definitive translations of five more known works of Musashi! This... -
Watergate Burglars: Nixon, Dirty Tricks, and the CIA by Shane O'Sullivan
RRP: $37.03$24.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510773035Author Shane O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)... -
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
RRP: $19.48$13.46Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for... -
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $37.03$26.95A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive... -
Shadows In Bronze: (Falco 2) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $19.48$14.27Let multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis transport you back to 71 A.D. in this captivating mystery, full of political intrigue, twists, turns and romantic tension. Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will not be... -
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
RRP: $38.98$29.06Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists-in what will prove... -
The Oxford History of the Biblical World by Michael David Coogan 9780195087079
$150.01The Oxford History of the Biblical World is a comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of the world from which the Bible emerged. The work is written by leading scholars, all of whom have considerable expertise in archaeology and the study of ancient... -
The Penguin History of Europe by J. Roberts
RRP: $37.03$26.54Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, The Penguin History of Europe traces the... -
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas
RRP: $37.03$27.32Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: $48.75$42.49This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer: A gripping new thriller with a killer twist by Joel Dicker
RRP: $21.43$14.63A twisting new thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairIn the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of four murders. Two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott crack the case... -
Ancient Rome: An Illustrated History Nigel Rodgers 9780754834205
RRP: $39.00$31.41The legacy of Ancient Rome shapes the world we inhabit today. The history of Rome - as a tiny primitive kingdom, as an ever-growing republic, as a world-ruling empire dominating the known world - is still influential. The first half of this book focuses... -
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin 9780241363157
RRP: $25.33$18.21'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600... -
Arnhem: Ten Days in the Cauldron Iain Ballantyne 9781804363676
RRP: $25.33$16.40The account of the fateful bridge too far...'It was a bridge too far and perhaps the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start, but we had to try, didn't we?'17 September 1944: 30,000 airborne soldiers prepare to drop 64 miles behind enemy lines... -
The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death by Catherine Bailey
RRP: $21.43$14.27A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a... -
It Never Snows in September by Robert Kershaw
RRP: $19.48$14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809617Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm *... -
Amerikan Family, An: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley
RRP: $50.70$33.25"Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles TimesThe long overdue story of the Shakurs, persistent fighters in the U.S. struggle for racial justice, and one of the most prominent, influential and fiercely creative... -
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
RRP: $54.58$39.62Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region. A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates,... -
Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr 9781471139802
RRP: $19.48$12.89'Beautifully written and deeply researched' The Observer Upon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa were changing. Where 'imperial security' -... -
Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
RRP: $25.33$18.21Making 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 account we learn just how close the talks leading to the... -
Servants by Lucy Lethbridge
RRP: $33.13$24.32'Hugely enjoyable' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Glorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes' - Daily Telegraph Servants is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the... -
The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire by Stewart Noble
RRP: $25.33$19.25Illustrated with 200 photographs, this book depicts the rich scenery and history of the old Western Dunbartonshire railway, which stretched from Clydebank with its shipyards and other heavy industries to the north end of Loch Lomond, now part of... -
Titans of War by Wilbur Smith 9781838776329
RRP: $39.00$27.81BOOK 2 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: $25.33$18.21The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the Sydney experiment, with criminals perceived to be damaging... -
Russia: Myths and Realities by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
RRP: $19.48$14.27'Wise and thorough' Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ... and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy' Sunday Telegraph 'A scholarly yet highly readable... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: $21.43$15.58'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 recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to... -
The Republic and The Laws by Cicero
RRP: $15.58$11.66`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just... -
Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club by Kit Holden
RRP: $29.23$21.61SHORTLISTED 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 History of Colour: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena Neil Parkinson 9780711266797
RRP: $42.90$30.77This comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with colour throughout human history. Colour is fundamental to our experience and understanding of the world. It crosses continents and cultures,... -
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby
RRP: $29.23$21.66"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls."(Manchester Guardian, 1870... -
Access to History: The Cold War in Asia 1945-93 for OCR Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781471838798
$50.72Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
A Little History of Canada by H. V. Nelles
RRP: $25.33$22.37This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes - from Indigenous occupation, to French and British... -
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: $17.53$12.97The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology...