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The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence John Pring 9780745349893
RRP: $35.68$20.18In the early 2010s, reports began to emerge of deaths that were being linked to a government department. Suicide notes, coroners' reports, and investigations by public bodies pointed to failings within the Department for Work and Pensions—the DWP—the... -
Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781399628570
RRP: $31.48$21.42A fully updated 10th anniversary edition of the SUNDAY TIMES No.1 Bestseller -
Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands Petroc Trelawny 9781474625098
RRP: $46.20$31.42It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national anthem. But when a stranger challenges the Radio 3... -
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Maureen Callahan 9780008473259
RRP: $35.68$27.76The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing expose' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by... -
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Maureen Callahan 9780008473242
RRP: $52.50$35.34The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing expose' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by... -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple 9781408864425
RRP: $39.88$37.09FROM 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... -
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink Matthew Parker 9780349142364
RRP: $27.28$18.06'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Excellent... his mastery of detail is impeccable' DOMINIC SANDBROOK,... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781911717096
RRP: $39.88$31.98The 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,... -
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East Robert Fisk 9780007350612
RRP: $42.00$33.71'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his... -
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Emma Southon 9780861548323
RRP: $23.08$14.70Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here's how the history of... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717899
RRP: $35.68$28.31This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of people as they navigate questions of identity and belonging.Book... -
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston 9781526657565
RRP: $31.48$22.24The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' series. 'From Daleks... -
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory Patrick Bishop 9780241492963
RRP: $52.50$37.84From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2When the Germans marched in and the lamps went out in the City of... -
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives Alice Loxton 9781035031283
RRP: $46.20$32.26'Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight' – Tracy Borman, bestselling historianBiggest books to look out for in 2024 – The GuardianAt eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward... -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Holland 9780349141213
RRP: $27.28$18.06THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A book for lovers of traditional, grand sweep narrative history' Sunday TimesThe definitive... -
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, And How They Made War Phillips Payson O'Brien 9780241696323
RRP: $52.50$37.84'Phillips Payson O'Brien is one of our finest historical thinkers' James Holland Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if... -
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II Shannon Monaghan 9780593491225
RRP: $52.50$35.24Apologies 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 -
Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn 9781804291900
RRP: $63.00$52.31Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen, a champion of the underdog.In this, the first biography of Paul Foot, journalist... -
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes Anthony Bale 9780241993408
RRP: $23.08$16.32‘Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you’ve never seen it before’ Ian Mortimer‘A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times’ Jerry Brotton'Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history' The New... -
Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition Steve Darnall 9781419777684
RRP: $39.88$39.02Out of print for over a decade, the long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a "truly subversive graphic novel" and "a damning account of... -
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator Theodore Papakostas 9780008596064
RRP: $35.68$24.09An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty and iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do... -
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Andrea di Robilant 9780857891792
RRP: $46.20$30.89DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi (Journeys and Navigations). This was closely... -
History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity by Roman Krznaric 9780753559628
RRP: $46.20$32.80'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening... -
Madrid: A New Biography Luke Stegemann 9780300276336
RRP: $52.50$43.93The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it... -
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond Antony Best 9780367352752
RRP: $73.48$64.79Now 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... -
Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land Steve Tibble 9780300276077
RRP: $52.50$43.93A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war... -
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War Holger Afflerbach 9781108965866
RRP: $39.88$25.77Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new... -
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic Lindsay M. Chervinsky 9780197653845
RRP: $56.68$43.26An 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... -
Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 A. G. Hopkins 9780691258843
RRP: $88.20$69.38An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, NigeriaIn Capitalism in the Colonies, A. G. Hopkins provides the first... -
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz 9780374605445
RRP: $54.58$36.41With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent... -
A History of the Modern Middle East William L. Cleveland 9780367516468
RRP: $75.58$66.55A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign... -
The Horror of Himmler’s Death Squads: The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in the Baltics by Norman Ridley 9781036106706
RRP: $52.50$37.00During the Second World War, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied on three separate occasions – twice by the Soviet Union and once by Nazi Germany. The signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939 allowed the Soviets to dominate the Baltic... -
History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts Robert Bartlett 9781009457156
RRP: $42.00$31.58To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were... -
Ireland: A Short History Joseph Coohill 9780861543687
RRP: $23.08$16.32From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history. Combining factual... -
The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer by Ulrik Skotte 9780753560167
RRP: $52.50$37.84London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.Many years later, young... -
York (newspaper edition) Terry Deary 9780702337697
RRP: $14.68$9.74Discover all the foul facts about the city with Roman and Viking roots with history's most horrible headlines: York edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the historical town of York. From ambling through the... -
The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History J. C. D. Clark 9780198916284
RRP: $73.50$63.21Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot. There are many books claiming to explain the... -
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies Sheila Curran Bernard 9781009098120
RRP: $52.50$37.00Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent... -
The Story of a Life Aharon Appelfeld 9780241681220
RRP: $20.98$14.93An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World War Two... -
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power Kerry Brown 9780300272925
RRP: $52.50$43.93A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while...