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IWM: The First World War on the Home Front by Terry Charman 9780233004297 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$5.57"Your country Needs YOU!" was the poster slogan that shouted out to many during the First World War. And indeed, it did. As men of all ages joined the Forces and left their homes and jobs, so those left behind were forced to step up and take... -
Defending the Realm: Inside M15 and the War on Terrorism by Mark Hollingsworth 9780233000107 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$5.57A brand new edition of this fascinating book on M15 intelligence operations. Updated and expanded with brand new material on the war on Terrorism such as insider reports on the Bali bombing, M15's tragic lack on intelligence on September 11th and how it... -
The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise 9780224071765 [USED COPY]
$5.57Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, it became... -
Witnesses Of War: Childrens Lives Under The Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt 9780224064798 [USED COPY]
$7.37Even in this most murderous of European wars, children were not merely passive victims of genocide, bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies and mass flight. They were also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and... -
Dreadnought: v. 1: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie 9780224032605 [USED COPY]
$4.81A chronicle of the coming of World War I in which the author focuses chiefly on England and Germany. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of the personalities, events and optimism that propelled the world towards war.Book InformationISBN... -
Twentieth-century South Africa by William Beinart 9780192892393 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$3.89South Africa is consistently headline news, for positive as well as negative reasons. Its unique history this century has brought the names of its most famous political activists not only to our television sets but more permanently to names of streets... -
Modern Spain, 1875-1980 by Raymond Carr 9780192890900 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$4.47The word "liberal" as part of our political vocabulary, comes from Spain. It was first used to describe a group of radical patriots cooped up in Cadiz, refugees from the French invasion of 1808. In 1812 they drew up a constitution enshrining the... -
Barricades and Borders by Robert Gildea 9780198730293 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.38$4.81This volume, part of The Short Oxford History of the Modern World, is a survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It... -
Journal by Betsy Sheridan 9780192818744 [USED COPY]
$4.66In the 1780s Elizabeth (Betsy) Sheridan, the younger sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, kept a journal which she sent as weekly letters to her older sister Alicia in Dublin. The letters recount with a lively wit all the details of Betsy Sheridan's... -
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes by Sir Max Hastings 9780192141071 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.25$4.81If anecdotes are marginal notes on the pages of history, these will delight any reader who has ever been moved or entertained by the condition of the soldier. Few fields of human endeavor have inspired so many memorable anecdotes as warfare, from the... -
First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum 9780141042756 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.93Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF . . . Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious... -
Roman Britain by Peter Salway 9780192851437 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81Reissued in new covers, this is the first volume in the "Oxford History of England". It draws on literary sources and advances in archaeology, charting life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion under Julius Caesar to the final collapse of the... -
After Modern Art 1945-2000 by David Hopkins 9780192842343 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$5.33Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2000, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the... -
Dorset to Gloucestershire by English Heritage 9780113000289 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48$4.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780113000289Author English HeritageFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint The Stationery OfficePublisher The Stationery Office Books (Agencies)Weight(grams)... -
A Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain Half a Million Years Ago as Revealed by the Excavations at Boxgrove by Michael W. Pitts 9780099644910 [USED COPY]
$5.57The discovery of "Boxgrove Man" in the chalk pits in Sussex has been followed by archaeologist Mark Roberts's continued excavation of the site. This has enabled him and his team to build up a picture of the first Englishman, and to have an idea... -
Victorian Painting by Julian Treuherz 9780500202630 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.90$3.93The personalities and careers of Victorian artists, and their social and intellectual context, are explored in this account, which aims to reveal how they blended foreign influences with the native British tradition. The range of artistic production in... -
Domesday Heritage: Towns and Villages of Norman England Through 900 Years by Hallam 9780099458005 [USED COPY]
$3.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780099458005Author HallamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arrow Books LtdPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 190g -
The Woeful Second World War by Terry Deary 9780439943994 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.58$3.74If you ever hear old folk moaning on about the world today, just remind them how woeful things were in the Second World War. Readers can discover why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty, what really happened in Dad's Army and how to... -
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille 9780099223412 [USED COPY]
$6.49In Italy Jews and fascists coexisted as nowhere else - there were even Jewish members of the Italian Fascist Party. Both before and during the war, the experience of Jews in Italy was a strange mixture of sympathy and brutal persecution, benevolence and... -
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater 9780091957216 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$4.81'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German... -
Forgotten Voices of the Victoria Cross by Roderick Bailey 9780091938161 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81The Victoria Cross is one of the world's most famous medals. It was introduced by Queen Victoria in 1856 for 'most conspicuous bravery, or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the... -
Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine 9780091926274 [USED COPY]
$4.81With over a million casualties, the Somme was the most brutal battle of the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives... -
Pocket Book of Patriots: 100 British Heroes by George Courtauld 9780091909017 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.00$4.81The Pocket Book of Patriotism proved that George Courtauld had a real gift for making history simple. The book became a word-of-mouth bestseller which dominated bookseller lists for many weeks. Now in this book he brings his talents to bear on great... -
Their Darkest Hour by Laurence Rees 9780091917579 [USED COPY]
$4.81Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face-to-face with rapists, mass murderers, even cannibals, but he has also met courageous... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust by Lyn Smith 9780091898250 [USED COPY]
$4.81Following the success of "Forgotten Voices of the Great War", this series now chronicles one of human histories darkest hours. The author comes to the project following her significant work in recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors... -
The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader by Keith Whitlock 9780300082234 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.20$5.33An essential reference for any student of the Renaissance, this book is a collection of readings on one of the most fascinating periods of Western development. Eminent scholars explore themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie 9780091933814 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$5.57Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hard working place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson 9780091931513 [USED COPY]
$5.57With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study "The Victorians", A.N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation and political expansion. It was also a period of... -
Country Twelvemonth by Fred Archer 9780750902687 [USED COPY]
$5.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750902687Author Fred ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Vikings by Neil Oliver 9780297867876 [USED COPY]
$4.81The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their extraordinary story. For over two hundred years between the end... -
Dirty Wars by L. Thompson 9780715394410 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$4.81Since 1945 nations have spent vasts amounts of money on sophisticated military hardware such as high-tech airplanes, missiles, tanks and ships. Yet it has been the guerrilla fighter who has presented the greatest threat to emerging states. In the 1940s,... -
Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War by Charles Glass 9780007345922 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$5.57The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. What made them run? And what happened after they fled? During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 40,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada,... -
The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie 9780007447688 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$38.03Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924... -
Prisoner Of War by Charles Rollings 9780091910075 [USED COPY]
$4.81'For you, the war is over.' These famous words marked the end of the Second World War for nearly half a million allied servicemen, and the beginning of a very different battle in captivity. Waged against boredom, brutality, disease, hunger and despair,... -
Gwen John by Sue Roe 9780099267560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$8.99In 1942, at the height of his fame, Augustus John predicted that 'fifty years from now I shall be known as the brother of Gwen John'. Gwen John (1876-1939) is indeed now recognised as a great artistic innovator, yet for years her life remained shrouded... -
The Stepney Doorstep Society: The remarkable true story of the women who ruled the East End through war and peace by Kate Thompson 9780718189853 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$7.67The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars. _____________ Minksy, Gladys, Beatty, Joan, Girl Walker. While the men were at war, these women ruled the streets of the East End... -
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes 9780224063128 [USED COPY]
$5.57Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that... -
The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories by Stephen Gray 9780140072396 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140072396Author Stephen GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 251g -
Thunder and Lightning: The RAF in the Gulf War: Personal Experiences of War by Charles Allen 9780117016255 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.85$4.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117016255Author Charles AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 177Imprint Stationery Office BooksPublisher TSO -
The English Countryside by Ruth Binney 9780715339015 [USED COPY]
$4.47"Amazing & Extraordinary Facts about the English Countryside" explores the flora and fauna, customs and traditions that give the English countryside its unique charm and special identity. From the standing stones and carvings of our...