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AQA GCSE History: Understanding the Modern World David Ferriby 9781471862946
Booksplease Price: $34.84Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification... -
Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 by Charles J. Esdaile
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure - or was he a social and... -
Serenade to the Big Bird: A Young Flier's Memoir of the Second World War by Bert Stiles 9781088134535
Booksplease Price: $13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088134535Author Bert StilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint -
Growing Up in Wartime Somerset: A Portrait in Watercolour by Syd Durston 9780752461724
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain's... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these... -
Seaside Hotels by Karen Averby
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86Grand seaside hotels dominate Britain's seaside resorts with bold, largescale buildings, often magnificent examples of the most fashionable architectural style of the time. First emerging in the... -
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future by Peter Moore
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07The Sunday Times bestseller. An astonishing account of the sailors, scientists and inventors who sought to understand the weather.**Book of the Week on Radio 4**'Gripping' The Times'Exhilarating'... -
The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History by Beat Kumin
RRP: $50.91Booksplease Price: $49.69A fully updated fourth edition written by a team of specialists. Enabling students to place early modern Europe within a global context and to see how Europe interacted with the broader early modern... -
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence 9780140080988
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140080988Author Jonathan D. SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprin -
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee 9780141991078
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin... -
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 9781620975251
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $30.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Princes in the Tower: Did Richard III Murder His Nephews, Edward V & Richard of York? by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70In the summer of 1483 two boys were taken into the Tower of London and were never seen again. They were no ordinary boys. One was the new King of England; the other was his brother, the Duke of York,... -
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios 9780349009254
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest... -
Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult by Richard B. Spence 9781932595338
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595338Author Richard B SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint
Ancien Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a...
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.41Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of...
The Story of Kent by Anne Petrie
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56A richly illustrated history exploring life in Kent. This book tells the amazing story of Kent from earliest times to the modern day. Some of the pivotal moments in the Garden of England's history...
My Friends, The Enemy: Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War by Nick van der Bijl
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56'On the beach the Lieutenant asked if he could say a prayer before being shot. "Don't be so bloody silly," I replied, "get into the boat."' My Friends, The Enemy recounts the Falklands War from...
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty Natalie Livingstone 9781529366730
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much...
Agricola and Germany by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose,...
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than...
Whitstable Through Time by Kerry Mayo
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65'Whitstable is a stirring little town, with strong business proclivities, and a history stretching far back into the remote past.' So wrote a Kentish Gazette correspondent in 1873, although he could...
The Guv'nor Revealed: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean by Lee Wortley 9781786064493
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786064493Author Lee WortleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
Kursk: Film tie-in Robert Moore 9780857504135
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.90____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA SEYDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment . . . heart-breaking, humane and, at times, all too...
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino Jane Stevenson 9781800241985
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross...
The Piggyback Flight Pilot's Journey by Cyndi Rojohn 9781633388185
RRP: $49.51Booksplease Price: $30.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633388185Author Cyndi RojohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint <
The Longest Day: The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.38This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors. 6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the...
Napoleon and Wellington Andrew Roberts 9781842127407
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian.'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously...
The Antonine Wall by David Breeze
Booksplease Price: $25.58As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied...
Haunted Staffordshire by Philip Solomon 9780752461687
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.46From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and...
Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime by Federico Varese
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.39We see mafias as vast, powerful organisations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe and wrapping its tentacles around everything from governance to finance. But is this the truth?...
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures by Ben Gazur 9781789297089
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.62Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series.From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced...
Centurion Main Battle Tank Owners' Workshop Manual: 1946 to present by Simon Dunstan
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $27.07An insight into the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the British Army's most successfull post-war tank, The Centurion is significant in the history of British armoured fighting...
One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History by Helen Doe 9781398122352
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.04In the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives. It all began with a meeting in London in 1824 to act on a proposal by Sir William Hillary: the formation of a...
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'The Most Happy' Eric Ives (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781405134637
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $21.57This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right. A full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly...
Medallions by Zofia Nalkowska 9780810117433
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once described as "the iron...
A Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Tony Potter 9780717179442
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61The Great Famine, an Gorta Mor in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside...
1491: The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 9781862078765
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491, the year before Columbus landed, the Americas, one-third of the earth's surface, were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small roaming bands...
A Study of History: Volume I: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: $32.82Booksplease Price: $25.53Arnold Toynbee's analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this...
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26During the first four years of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and his military advisers were constantly concerned with the defence and sustenance of Malta. From 11 June 1940, the island,...