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Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small by Clare Balding 9781529343823
$22.11Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home - and became the inspiration for Lassie. Cher Ami the pigeon, despite being shot twice, delivered a message that saved the lives of 194 soldiers in... -
Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought, and Sold the Dream of Los Angeles by Paul Haddad 9781595801272
RRP: $42.88$28.92Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry... -
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
RRP: $29.23$25.41A searing account of the UN resolution to partition Palestine, and its bloody aftermath "[A] tour de force. . . . With his customary in-depth archival research . . . clear presentation, and meticulous historical sensibility, Karsh argues . . . that... -
Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett
RRP: $60.43$40.93Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists and Protestant Unionists struggled for supremacy, a case study in conflict resolution or an economy that for a time promised to... -
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown Valentine Low 9781472290908
RRP: $39.00$29.07'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The TelegraphThe gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times... -
The Troubles with Us: One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way by Alix O'Neill
RRP: $19.48$13.34'Derry Girls meets David Sedaris' Elske Rahill 'The writing is full of energy and originality' Irish Times Growing up on the Falls Road in 1990s Belfast, Alix O'Neill has seen it... -
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
RRP: $21.43$15.58From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early... -
Healing through the Bones: Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus by Kristian T. P. Fics 9780761868194
RRP: $58.50$52.44Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. This study explores specifically an effect of violent conflict-Missing Persons and the bi-communal process of their humanitarian... -
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780141993515
RRP: $33.13$23.95A 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... -
Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics by Jesse Norman
RRP: $25.33$16.98Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern... -
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It Stephanie Snow 9781802793468
RRP: $33.13$19.15FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the first time ever, the rich history of the NHS through the... -
The Interpretation of Dreams: The Psychology Classic by Sigmund Freud
RRP: $23.38$14.43Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this collectible, hard-back edition of The Interpretation of Dreams provides an accessible and insightful edition of this important work of psychology Sigmund Freud's The... -
The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson
RRP: $25.33$18.21WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, AND FINANCIAL... -
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: $29.23$21.35The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently. The face of the earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of... -
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz
RRP: $23.38$16.03Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for `gross... -
The Beatles' Landmarks in Liverpool by Daniel K. Longman
RRP: $31.18$21.49The appeal of the Beatles is everlasting. Millions of fans from all over the world continue to revel in the band's eternal hits and their music stands out as one of Britain's greatest cultural successes. This book takes the reader on a journey to the Fab... -
Oxford AQA GCSE History (9-1): Britain: Health and the People c1000-Present Day Student Book Second Edition by Aaron Wilkes 9781382023108
$36.31This Second Edition of Britain: Health and the People c1000-Present Day Student Book is part of the popular Oxford AQA GCSE 9-1 History series. Updated as part of our commitment to the inclusive presentation of diverse histories and to reflect the world... -
The Voice: 40 years of Black British Lives The Voice 9781529902426
RRP: $39.00$27.87Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as... -
Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means
RRP: $19.48$13.46'This fascinating history of how, where and why humans swim...is perfect reading for those missing a splash-about during the lockdown.' GuardianFrom the first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the recreational swimmers in your... -
Icelandic Histories & Romances by Ralph O'Connor 9780752428949
RRP: $25.33$19.25The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O'Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of... -
24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Philip Matyszak
RRP: $17.53$12.52Walk a day in a Roman's sandals ... What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide,... -
Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
RRP: $38.98$34.75A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history - from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic - Victor Klemperer is regarded... -
Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity Gunter Bischof 9781560009023
RRP: $89.68$79.03When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new... -
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by Brian Groom
RRP: $39.00$26.79A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times ... -
Castlereagh John Bew 9780857388407
RRP: $38.98$26.42The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the author of the Orwell Prize-winning Citizen Clem Damned in... -
Bunny vs Monkey by Jamie Smart 9781788451772
RRP: $19.48$13.94FAST AND FURRY-OUS! Welcome to the woods. It's chaos in there! Bunny and his friends Weenie the Squirrel, Pig (the pig), Action Beaver and Skunky the Inventor lived a peaceful life in the forest - until Monkey's rocket crash-landed and he decided... -
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: $33.13$30.24Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three... -
War in European History Michael Howard (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford) 9780199546190
RRP: $27.28$19.52First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves... -
A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914 by Christopher Hampton 9780851247250
RRP: $39.00$38.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247250Author Christopher HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 5mm -
The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: $23.38$16.89Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and... -
Latin Key Words: Learn Latin Easily: 2, 000-word Vocabulary Arranged by Frequency in a Hundred Units, with Comprehensive Latin and English Indexes Jeremy Peter Toner 9780906672693
RRP: $23.30$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906672693Author Jeremy Peter TonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Oleander PressPublisher The Oleander Press -
1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies
RRP: $25.33$18.99On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... -
Secret Sheffield Professor Ian D. Rotherham 9781445653105
RRP: $31.18$22.99Sheffield is the fourth largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. It is renowned for its high-quality steel and fine cutlery, for its two large universities and for having the biggest shopping centre in Europe, yet... -
Blackburn Buccaneer Owners' Workshop Manual: All marks (1958-94) by Keith Wilson
RRP: $48.75$18.54Born in the 1950s when the Cold War was rapidly escalating, the subsonic Blackburn Buccaneer was designed as a carrier-borne strike aircraft, which eventually went on to serve both the Royal Navy and the RAF. The Buccaneer entered service with the Royal... -
Fleet Air Arm: Camouflage and Markings 1937 - 1941 by Stuart Lloyd
RRP: $48.65$32.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414086Author Stuart LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingWeight(grams)... -
SHP History Year 8 Pupil's Book by Christopher Culpin
$57.82Develop your students' understanding and skills step by step with Schools History Project's carefully planned approach to Key Stage 3.Part of the dynamic and coherent book-per-year course, this textbook combines expertise in course planning with features... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: $38.98$27.20Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of... -
Days in the Caucasus by Banine
RRP: $25.33$17.16We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood - of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781936594351
RRP: $19.89$16.98Apologies 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 -
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: $21.43$15.35'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the...