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King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the... -
Britain Begins by Sir Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $30.14The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated... -
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946-60: Early Cold War armor in Central Europe Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781472843296
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.11A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were all rapidly developed. For 45... -
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman 9781551526430
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526430Author Sarah SchulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint -
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin by Aoife Moore 9780241993781
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.06Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn Fein, long widely-regarded as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is... -
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution Ian Kershaw 9780300151275
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.09A deeply insightful social history of Hitler's rise to power and the attitudes of the German people during the era of the Third Reich This book is the culmination of more than three decades of... -
The I.R.A. by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.15An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the IRA, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. Tim Pat Coogan's classic... -
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple 9780006544159
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.84One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the... -
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go,... -
Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down: A Tale of Ninety-Eight by Derek a Rowlinson 9781910375211
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375211Author Derek a RowlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS: A memoir Derek Frost 9781786784964
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive Philippe Sands, QC 9781474608145
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.78THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF... -
OCR Ancient History GCSE Component 1: Greece and Persia Sam Baddeley (Winchester College, UK) 9781350015159
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.08This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the... -
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America-some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how... -
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History... -
Victory is in the Kitchen: Wartime Recipes by Laura Clouting 9781904897460
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61This gift book is collection of delightful and unusual recipes from the Second World War. Taken from the archives of IWM, the recipes show the ingenuity and creativity behind dishes rustled up out of... -
Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism by Daniel Diehl
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our... -
History in Infographics: Mayans by Jon Richards
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09History in Infographics helps children to visualise facts and statistics using a clever and appealing mix of graphics and numbers. The colourful, high-impact design will appeal to a wide range of... -
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.32A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germany's terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydrich-a key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been told"Gerwarth dispassionately examines... -
East Lothian Through Time by Liz Hanson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65East Lothian, previously known as Haddingtonshire, has both benefitted and suffered from its strategic location between Scotland's capital city and England's northernmost county. Prior to 1707, the... -
Pirate Ship 1660-1730 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39Although pirates have a fascination which has resulted in the production of numerous books and documentaries in recent years (including titles by Osprey), no detailed depiction of their ships has... -
A History of the Crusades III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades by Steven Runciman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion'Steven... -
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Alyse Webb
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.86One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network... -
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of... -
Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $10.37In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the... -
Luftwaffe X-Planes: German Experimental Aircraft of World War II by Griehl, Manfred 9781399018258
Booksplease Price: $13.39From jet planes and high altitude aircraft to radar-equipped fighters configured to deliver chemical weapons, numerous Luftwaffe planes were designed and reached prototype stage but never made it... -
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston 9781399723763
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.76'Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable,... -
Secret Swanage and Around Andrew Jackson 9781398116641
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Swanage’s position on the Dorset coast has shaped its history since its earliest years. In 877 a Danish fleet threatening King Alfred’s army was destroyed in Swanage Bay and in the nineteenth century... -
A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told by Roy B Young 9781574417739
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $39.03Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a product of his time,... -
Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.29An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested,... -
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $6.95King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.18The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues... -
On the Trail of William Wallace by David R. Ross 9781913025168
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94On the Trail of William Wallace offers a refreshing insight into the life and heritage of the great Scots hero whose proud story is at the very heart of what it means to be Scottish, and whose effect... -
Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words Alan Clark 9780753826737
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.'From the moment the first... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.15New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will... -
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast Gavin Knight 9781784700997
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the... -
The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas Higham
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.45The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these... -
The Art of War (Collins Classics) by Sun Tzu 9780008296445
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written by military strategist Sun Tzu in the 5th century BC... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant 9780674237858
Booksplease Price: $28.30"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant"Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.68'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes...