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Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb by Susan Williams
RRP: £16.99£15.31Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important... -
The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict of Nursia
RRP: £29.95£24.06One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has features of... -
Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22 by Peter Hennessy 9781913368883
RRP: £22.00£15.37Peter Hennessy brings his deep political and historical understanding to this study of two of the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced by Britain in peacetime. As the protracted withdrawal from the EU and the disruption caused by the Covid-19... -
The Suffocating Night: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 4 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fourth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesThe Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this... -
Life in Roman London by Simon Webb 9780752465364
RRP: £19.99£15.02Seven years after the Roman invasion of Britain in ad 43, Londinium was created. It would rise to become one of the most important Roman cities in Northern Europe. Life in Roman London approaches the history of Roman London in an entirely new way. Rather... -
A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street by Andrew Whitehead 9781789148442
RRP: £15.99£11.61On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London's mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. A six-hour gunfight ensued, with a fire consuming the besieged building. Winston Churchill, then Home... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and... -
Complete Visual Encyclopedia of Naval Aircraft of World Wars I and Ii by Francis Crosby 9780754830566
RRP: £7.99£5.79This title features a directory of over 70 aircraft with 330 identification photographs. It includes Shipborne fighters, bombers, flying boats and naval planes, including the Curtiss Helldiver, Mitsubishi Zero-Sen, Supermarine Seafire, Fairey Swordfish,... -
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: £12.99£8.48The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend - taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthood as an object lesson in the dangers of marrying into royalty. The true story behind the legend, however,... -
The Sinking of the Blucher: The Battle of Drobak Narrows: April 1940 by Geirr H Haarr
RRP: £29.95£21.92A lesser-known event during World War II, the sinking of the Blucher is key part of naval history that marked the beginning of the Norwegian Campaign. The Sinking of the Blucher is a comprehensive investigation into why the German cruiser, named for... -
A Little History of Canada by H. V. Nelles
RRP: £12.99£11.47This 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 Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492) by Simon Schama
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the... -
Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia [First edition] by Daniel Renshaw 9781906764036
RRP: £19.75£11.94Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of... -
East London: A 1960s Album by Steve Lewis
RRP: £14.99£11.55The photographs in this book capture the gritty reality of life in East London during the Swinging Sixties. As the images graphically illustrate, the pop revolution and the early stirrings of flower power had little discernible impact on the... -
Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation: Save One Life, Save the World by Muriel Emanuel
RRP: £15.95£12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034254Author Muriel EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga 9781621389996
£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389996Author Johan HuizingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: £14.99£10.95Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the... -
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
RRP: £9.99£6.87Colm Toibin's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities - a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the... -
The Little History of Norfolk by John A. Davies 9780750985765
RRP: £14.99£12.55Embark upon a journey through Norfolk's eventful history, from the earliest times to the present day. From the discovery of fossil footprints dating back nearly one million years, to Boudica's revolt, the Roman occupation, the creation of the Norfolk... -
The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943: Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona by Pier Paolo Battistelli 9781472855695
RRP: £16.99£12.28A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy. After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US Fifth Army and British Eighth Army advanced up the... -
History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present by Thula Simpson
RRP: £22.00£19.52South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and... -
Garrison Life at Vindolanda: A Band of Brothers by Anthony Birley 9780752419503
RRP: £22.50£16.79The ink writing-tablets, first indentified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years AD 90-125... -
Southwark Remembered by John D. Beasley 9780752422411
RRP: £12.99£9.62Southwark RememberedBook InformationISBN 9780752422411Author John D BeasleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
The Cruel Victory: The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944 by Paddy Ashdown
RRP: £12.99£8.48From best-selling author of 'A Brilliant Little Operation', winner of the British Army Military History prize and the Royal marines History prize for 2013, comes the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the... -
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: £8.99£6.45By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on... -
Pericles Of Athens And The Birth Of Democracy by Donald M. Kagan 9780684863955
RRP: £14.99£13.80"Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds."--Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind."Book InformationISBN 9780684863955Author... -
The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: £12.99£8.60Bang up to date with fresh cover-ups relating to Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and Afghanistan The 100 military, medical, religious, alien, intelligence, banking and historical cover-ups 'they' really don't want you to know about: The... -
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird
RRP: £18.99£12.13NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch' The New York Times Book Review... -
Brazil - Culture Smart: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Sandra Branco 9781787023390
RRP: £10.99£7.77For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval, and fine coffee, but it's much more than beaches and bossa nova. If we could choose only one word to describe Brazil, it would be diversity. The variety of lifestyles, ethnic groups,... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel 9780008429973
£7.55A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress by Frances Osborne
RRP: £10.99£7.40On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by... -
Aircraft of World War II: 300 of the World's Greatest Aircraft 1939-45 by Chris Chant
RRP: £12.99£8.73Aircraft of World War II contains 300 of the most important and influential military aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. From Allied fighters to Axis bombers, from biplanes to flying boats, each of the aircraft featured is presented with a full... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute by Peers, Chris 9781784387563
RRP: £13.99£9.75The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army. Later the same... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780241992142
RRP: £10.99£7.77'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology,... -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: £12.99£9.09Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian Violence by Eyal Weizman
£13.22The principle of the 'lesser evil'-the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice-has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian... -
Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US by Jane Mayer 9781925228847
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for LA Times Book Prize 2017 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2017 (United States) and J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2017 (United States) and... -
The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit by Meg Russell 9780192849717
RRP: £26.49£18.61The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might have been handled better, and the role that parliament played. Since the 2016 referendum, the hotly... -
Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 by Anton van der Lem
RRP: £30.00£21.35In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the right of self-determination, the freedom of conscience and... -
Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper by Tom Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.80Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once...