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The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66A gripping and urgent investigation into the secretive world of the global arms trade - from a former member of the African National CongressRevealing the corruption and the cover-ups at the heart of... -
'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms by Naoko Abe
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . . endeavour, war and... -
Tagic Matilda - Lady of Hay: The Life and Legends of Matilda de Braose by Peter Ford 9781910839430
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839430Author Peter FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
A Durable Peace: Israel and it's Place Among the Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu 9780446523066
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.32This work examines the troubled history of the Middle East, tracing the history, developments and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. The author - Israel's first... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on... -
King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he fought... -
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.92A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates... -
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield by Martin Pearce
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a... -
An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Updated Edition by Catherine Dunne
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.46New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid... -
Devil (Leopards of Normandy 1): A vivid historical blockbuster of power, intrigue and action David Churchill 9781472219213
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75**From the co-author of the No.1 bestselling Wilbur Smith novel, WAR CRY**The fate of England hangs in the balance of a fight between brothers...In DEVIL, David Churchill writes with the immediacy of... -
Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna 9781786788078
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.89"I was not prepared for how deeply this book captivated me ... Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India is exemplary of what a book can be, how it can operate. It's a bridge across space, time, and... -
Before Scotland: A Prehistory by Alistair Moffat 9780500297254
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative history. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human... -
The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the... -
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of... -
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly... -
First Templar Nation: How Eleven Knights Created a New Country and a Refuge for the Grail by Freddy Silva 9781620556542
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Overturns the long-established historical narrative about the origins and purpose of the Knights Templar * Explains how and why the Templars created Europe's first nation-state, Portugal, with one of... -
Spitfire to Reaper: The Changing Face of Aerial Warfare - 1940-Present Day Anthony Tucker-Jones 9780750987806
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.79Can air power alone win a war?That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam: Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just... -
Story of Ireland by Neil Hegarty
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities. Revisiting the major turning points in the Irish... -
Three Castles Burning by Donal Fallon
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02Eason Favourite Book of the Year 2022 'she is no small town, and this is no small story . . .' BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST A companion to the hugely successful... -
My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor by Selma van de Perre
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. I have recorded... -
Gaslands: Refuelled: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Mayhem by Mike Hutchinson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.23Shoot, ram, skid, and loot your way through the ruins of civilisation with Gaslands: Refuelled, the tabletop miniature wargame of post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem. With all-new material including... -
Victorian Gothic House Styles Trevor Yorke 9781846743047
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.50Gothic style transformed the urban landscape from the mid 19th century. In this new book, discover how leading architects reinterpreted Medieval buildings to create a dynamic style which spread from... -
Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7 - An Investigation by Nick Kollerstrom 9781615777372
Booksplease Price: $19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615777372Author Nick KollerstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play by James C. Whorton
RRP: $22.10Booksplease Price: $17.63Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from...
Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day Michael Axworthy 9780141036298
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION, NOW WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT BY ALI ANSARI Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a...
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): The Second Day by Dr. Timothy Orr
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.64This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat...
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani 9781787389328
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.61An alternative account of the EU as a racialised project The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic...
For the Sins of My Mother Marie Therese Rogers-Moloney 9781780730653
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $15.28In rural Ireland in 1950, a respectable widow has an affair with a visiting stranger. To conceal her pregnancy, she travels to Belfast, where she gives birth to a baby girl called Marie Therese. She...
Avro Military 1910-63 by Key Publishing
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Founded in 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe, A.V. Roe and Company Limited built its first military aircraft two years later. By 1914, the company was literally flying when it designed the first of many...
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 Keith Jeffery 9781408810057
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.10'Reads like the script for a Bond film' Mail on Sunday A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world...
Footmarks: A Journey into Our Restless Past by Jim Leary 9781837730254
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME...
Battleships of World War I & World War II by E V Martindale
Booksplease Price: $25.92For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. The rise of the...
75 Years of Balls: The History of the Imperial Poona Yacht Club by Jeremy Atkins 9780950917955
Booksplease Price: $13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950917955Author Jeremy AtkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint
Gdańsk: Portrait of a City Peter Oliver Loew 9780197603864
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $29.98It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Gunter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes...
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.01Attempts to find the person (if any) behind the legend of King Arthur have been going on for a long time. The search has revealed many interesting facts and it has also led to sharp disagreements. By...
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $10.22The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC...
War Prizes: An illustrated survey of German, Italian and Japanese aircraft brought to Allied countries during and after the Second World War by Phil Butler
RRP: $37.45Booksplease Price: $30.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352629Author Phil ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June 1940 when four German planes landed at Guernsey...
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.15'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' - Jodi Dean 'Crackling with intellectual...
An Austin Anthology by James 'Jim' Stringer 9781787111912
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.48An entertaining collection of true stories that feature just a few of the products manufactured by the Austin Motor Company from 1906 until the outbreak of the Second World War, including the people...