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Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome by Karen J. Lloyd 9781032119670
RRP: $51.59$45.23Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as... -
Warriors and Kings: The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic Britain by Martin Wall 9781398122505
RRP: $14.18$9.35For centuries, the Celtic peoples of Britain stood fast against invasion and oppression. Theirs is a fascinating and exciting story that includes the deeds of some of the most tenacious and heroic leaders in history – from Caratacus and Boudicca to... -
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein 9780008483890
RRP: $14.18$9.35THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 'Epic,... -
The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan by Angelo Lo Conte 9780367673352
RRP: $51.59$45.23The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561–1629), Carlo Antonio (1571–1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574–1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century... -
History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway by Keith L. Bryant Jr. 9781496238856
RRP: $41.28$30.24Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway grew from Holliday’s idea... -
Secret Cape Cod and Islands: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by Linda Humphrey 9781681065274
RRP: $34.83$22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681065274Author Linda HumphreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Reedy PressPublisher Reedy Press -
Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History by Ronald J. Stephens 9781839984570
RRP: $103.20$96.98Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right to American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights,... -
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer 9780141993355
RRP: $24.50$17.56The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the... -
The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady J Crytzer 9781594164354
RRP: $33.54$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164354Author Brady J CrytzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme Publishing -
The Sword of Rome: Marcus Claudius Marcellus by Jeremiah McCall 9781399078405
RRP: $19.34$14.13Marcellus military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill in single combat. In his first consulship, he earned a triumph for defeating... -
The British Army of George II, 1727-1760 by Gabriele Esposito 9781399051903
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps by Andrew W Field 9781399021449
RRP: $19.34$14.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN: The High Price of Glory by Tim Hillier-Graves 9781036100261
RRP: $32.25$22.73It is more than a hundred years since Manfred von Richthofen, the ‘Red Baron’, was killed in combat on the Western Front. Yet this gallant fighter pilot is probably as well known today as he was his lifetime. Beginning in 1916, when his lethal skills... -
Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade by Susan Gaunt Stearns 9780813951249
RRP: $36.06$29.13A groundbreaking study situating the Mississippi River valley at the heart of the early American republic’s political economy Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the... -
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Author and Journalist Jonathan Dimbleby 9780197765319
RRP: $45.14$27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197765319Author Author and Journalist Jonathan DimblebyFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 1021g -
Elite Participation in the Third Crusade by Stephen Bennett 9781837652082
RRP: $55.46$46.44The motivations behind those who went on the Third Crusade examined through close investigation of their social networks. The Third Crusade (1189-1192) was an attempt by Latin Christendom to reconquer the Holy Land, following the capture of Jerusalem by... -
Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents by Robert Schmuhl 9781324093428
RRP: $32.25$25.77Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for weeks on end—the (often unclothed) visitor who “dropped out of the sky.” These extended... -
A Culinary History of Martha's Vineyard by Thomas Dresser 9781467157643
RRP: $32.24$20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157643Author Thomas DresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
The Fall of Berlin: The final days of Hitler's evil regime by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781839408724
RRP: $12.89$7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839408724Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Panzer Tracts No.3-3: Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf.J, L, M & N by Thomas Jentz 9781915969293
RRP: $30.95$21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969293Author Thomas JentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: The Battle of the Wabash, the United States' Greatest Defeat in the Wars Against Indigenous Peoples by Rick M Schoenfield 9781594164231
RRP: $41.93$26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164231Author Rick M SchoenfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 513g -
The Cold War through Documents: A Global History by Edward H. Judge 9781538195680
RRP: $45.15$39.93This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved. Coverage... -
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening: Volume I: Home by Sarah Dewis 9780367188566
$151.61This volume is number one of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women... -
Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos by Ryan Wolfson-Ford 9780299348601
RRP: $114.81$113.92Postcolonial and post–World War II Southeast Asia churned with new political, social, and cultural realities and possibilities. Liberal democracies flourished briefly, only to be discarded in favor of dictatorships and other authoritarian regimes, as the... -
Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome by Anna Bonnell Freidin 9780691226279
RRP: $49.02$42.04How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing... -
Roman Architecture by Janet DeLaine 9780192842121
RRP: $25.79$18.42Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across the Roman empire. Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms... -
Building for War: The Epic Saga of the Civilian Contractors and Marines of Wake Island in World War II by Bonita Gilbert 9781636244570
RRP: $29.03$18.51This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousand-plus civilian contractors who came to Wake Island in 1941 to build an air station for the U.S. Navy. Author Gilbert charts the contractors' hard-won progress as they scramble to build the... -
The Benjamin Franklin Book of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from America's Most Prolific Founding Father by Travis Hellstrom 9781578269808
RRP: $19.34$13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578269808Author Travis HellstromFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S. -
A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana by Evelyn L. Wilson 9781496852168
RRP: $126.42$102.77A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author Evelyn L. Wilson documents the presence, land... -
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability by Elham Manea 9781804130575
RRP: $109.65$102.85This book suggests an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using Yemen as a case study. The interaction between different types of state... -
France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation by Phillip Naylor 9781477328439
$64.44An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence. While most related studies concentrate on the colonial era and Algeria's War of Independence, France and Algeria details the nations' postcolonial... -
Paul Klee Wall Calendar 2025 (Art Calendar) by Flame Tree Studio 9781835620342
RRP: $14.18$8.71Paul Klee was one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. Influenced by Surrealism, Cubism and Impressionism, he had an undoubtedly distinctive style. A keen student of colour theory, his works are powerfully effective, and this calendar... -
Super Slick: Life and Death in a Huey Helicopter in Vietnam by Tom Feigel 9780811775663
RRP: $32.25$24.38Helicopters loom large in how we picture the Vietnam War. Kilgore’s birds coming in hot (and Wagnerian) out of the rising sun in Apocalypse Now. The infantry/helicopter assault at Ia Drang in the climax of We Were Soldiers. A chopper flying over green... -
The American Adventure!: A Conservative Christian Kids' Guide to Us History and the 50 States by Tracy M Sumner 9781636098920
RRP: $21.92$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636098920Author Tracy M SumnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Barbour KidzPublisher Barbour Kidz -
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston 9781526657565
RRP: $19.34$12.75A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern... -
How the Victorians Lived by Shona Parker 9781399056663
RRP: $28.38$20.15The Victorian era is arguably the most exciting and invigorating reign of an English monarch ever, and one of progress on a massive scale. By the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, England was almost unrecognisable. The Victorians neatly avoided... -
King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia: Dux Bellorum and the Kings of the Britons by Tony Sullivan 9781399048682
RRP: $28.38$20.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
South Shields Heroes of World War II - Their Finest Hour by Terry Ford 9781068641817
$13.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068641817Author Terry FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint South Shields Local History Group PublishingPublisher South Shields Local History Group... -
A History of Rest by Alain Corbin 9781509561520
RRP: $64.50$41.73Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest... -
The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg 9781804994993
RRP: $14.18$10.02On 29 September 1934, at the German Embassy office in London, Christabel Bielenberg officially became a German citizen. Having met her German husband Peter two years prior, Christabel decided to renounce her British citizenship, planning to start married...