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Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781399628570
RRP: £14.99£10.20A fully updated 10th anniversary edition of the SUNDAY TIMES No.1 Bestseller -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple 9781408864425
RRP: £18.99£17.66FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA ‘A master storyteller’ Sunday Times India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781911717096
RRP: £18.99£15.23The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests,... -
Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic Amy Jeffs 9781529416619
RRP: £30.00£19.80From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author.Saints' legends suffused medieval... -
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King Dan Jones 9781804541937
RRP: £25.00£18.02'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' – Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The... -
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II Shannon Monaghan 9780593491225
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491225Author Shannon MonaghanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond Antony Best 9780367352752
RRP: £34.99£30.85Now in its fourth edition, this highly successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have... -
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic Lindsay M. Chervinsky 9780197653845
RRP: £26.99£20.60An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic. The United States of 1797 faced enormous... -
Civil Wars: A Very Short Introduction Monica Duffy Toft 9780197575864
RRP: £8.99£6.61Civil wars are nasty, brutish, and long. Monica Duffy Toft introduces this complex and timely topic. Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. In the past thirty years, the study of civil wars has been one of the largest... -
Presidents Eric Huang 9780711292840
RRP: £8.99£6.20Do you know everything there is to know about the Presidents of the United States? OH NO YOU DON'T! The people who have served as President of the United States of America are some of the most famous people on the planet. But how much do we really know... -
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History Samuel W. Franklin 9780226836706
RRP: £16.00£13.43A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values,... -
William III Tony Claydon 9781032212784
RRP: £35.99£31.69This is a political biography of William III (1650–1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the revolution of 1688–9. William III... -
The Evolution of Gun Making: Machine made weapons, 1700–1820 Peter G. Smithurst 9781036107789
RRP: £25.00£17.62A variety of factors surround military firearms – they needed to be produced in large numbers to a standardised pattern at an affordable price. This books examines the transition from traditional hand-craft methods to the beginnings of mechanised... -
The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present Allen James Fromherz 9780520398559
RRP: £25.00£18.23This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created... -
The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction Aziz Z. Huq 9780197657423
£9.02Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase "rule of law" to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is that good? Even in Aristotle's time, there was no agreement on either its nature, and on whether it... -
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War H. W. Brands 9780385550413
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385550413Author H. W. BrandsFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History Professor Christine Folch 9780691246390
£31.09The untold story of South America’s most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea. In... -
The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars Cormac Ó Gráda 9780691258751
£56.37A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars. But the armies that fought World Wars I and II killed far more... -
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar by Max Hastings 9780063341081
RRP: £35.00£21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341081Author Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g -
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century by Caroline Jack 9780226835129
RRP: £92.00£87.86How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and public service. Business as Usual reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari 9780593734223
RRP: £35.00£20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593734223Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 819g -
Those about to Die by Daniel P Mannix 9781504098441
RRP: £16.95£14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504098441Author Daniel P MannixFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781036150174
RRP: £26.95£17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150174Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military -
The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink by Nina S. Studer 9780228022206
RRP: £23.99£18.73At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for... -
The Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom Steven K. Green 9780813951843
RRP: £98.00£77.95How Jefferson and Madison ensured religious freedom in the United States Thomas Jefferson considered the establishment of religious freedom as a governing principle in the United States to be one of the great accomplishments of his life. It was not his... -
Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy Bianca M. Lopez 9781501775918
RRP: £47.00£40.88Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of... -
East Anglian Church Porches and their Medieval Context Helen Lunnon 9781837652174
RRP: £26.99£26.44Major interdisciplinary study of medieval church porches, bringing out their importance and significance. The church porches of medieval England are among the most beautiful and glorious aspects of ecclesiastical architecture; but in comparison with its... -
Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians Sydney Tooth 9783161635632
RRP: £83.60£83.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161635632Author Sydney ToothFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 470g -
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman Maegan Parker Brooks 9798881803902
£21.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803902Author Maegan Parker BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers -
Laywomen and the Crusade in England, 1150-1300 Dr Gordon M Reynolds 9781837652242
£78.81Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing... -
The Last Crusade & the Empire of Haiti Bruce Twyman 9781569028681
RRP: £29.99£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569028681Author Bruce TwymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S. -
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid Meredith McKittrick 9780226831800
RRP: £92.00£87.86How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed... -
Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories Tom Smith 9781501777448
RRP: £27.99£26.67In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As... -
Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948 Rudolf Mrázek 9781501777462
RRP: £31.00£29.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ireland's Air Wars Pete London 9781802828627
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this book, illustrated with over 120 images, Pete London examines the hisotry of the Irish Air Wars.Book InformationISBN 9781802828627Author Pete LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd -
City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994 Seth A. Weitz 9780817361471
£32.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ghosts of a Family: Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles Edward Burke 9781785375224
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375224Author Edward BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Glory and Tragedy in Notre-Dame d'Etampes: A forgotten mystical journey and its brutal suppression John E. James 9780975742570
RRP: £125.00£119.74The church of Notre-Dame is a forgotten masterpiece, its past glory ruthlessly suppressed. The crusaders had brought back eastern techniques to transform Notre-Dame into a beacon of mystical exploration. They longed to join the angels in passionate union... -
Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the Imperial Imagination Deborah Sutton 9781438499208
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499208Author Deborah SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Empire Margaret Cohen 9781350451285
RRP: £25.99£22.61Across the 19th century, maritime globalization expanded at a hitherto unimaginable pace, transforming transport and communications over the seas into oceanic networks at a planetary scale. These networks shaped culture in its most expansive sense,...