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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton 9780340819456 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.12In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was... -
Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II by Taylor Downing 9780349123400 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most... -
One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS by Sarah Ford 9780006388371 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.56What makes a woman join the most secretive and dangerous unit of Special Forces? What keeps her there? How does she cope with the rigorous physical and psychological training, including 'simulated terrorist interrogations', the often deadly missions, the... -
The Exbury Junkers: A World War Two Mystery by John Stanley 9781903953600 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.28€12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953600Author John StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 7mm -
The SAS Story by Mike Morgan 9780750948401 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.28The Special Air Service (SAS) was formed in the North African desert in 1941, the brainchild of Colonel David Stirling. He bequeathed to the present day a simple, unshakeable fact - a small force of well-trained, well-armed, determined men operating way... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees 9781846077944 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of... -
The Rotten Romans by Terry Deary 9780439944007 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.12Go back into the really rotten times of the Romans, where there were beastly battles, deadly doctors and marvellous myths. Discover what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts, how ancient Britons got their hair nice and spikey and why rich Romans needed... -
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton 9780340748824 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American... -
The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers by Alistair Moffat 9781780274454 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€5.03From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and... -
Arnhem: The Battle for Survival by John Nichol 9780141048352 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.73Arnhem by John Nichol and Tony Rennell is an absolutely gripping narrative packed with action and heroic tales of courage.'Riveting ... reveals the ice-cool courage of British troops trapped in the bloody shambles of Arnhem' Daily MailIn September 1944,... -
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474609197 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.75INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some... -
Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey 9780099539056 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€3.15Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology,... -
God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge 9780007156382 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen... -
Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb 9781849162340 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€4.36Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead 9780099523895 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough 9781444778076 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.83Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars... -
The Real 'Dad's Army': The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster by Rodney Foster 9780670919802 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.73Rodney Foster's The Real Dad's Army is the true-life account of Britain's Home Guard and now the subject of the new film Dad's Army (Feb 2016).'Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?' Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home... -
The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson 9780141013824 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€3.15The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that... -
Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle by Mark Stille 9781472851758 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€14.15A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140445008 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari... -
Death's Other Kingdom by Gamel Woolsey 9780907871194 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€7.12A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male voices. A balance to the cruelty of Orwell's Homage to... -
The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death by Catherine Bailey 9780141035673 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a... -
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Dan Jones 9781788547789 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€5.66'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict... -
A Kingston Lacy Childhood: Reminiscences of Viola Bankes by Viola Bankes 9780946159338 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.08€2.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159338Author Viola BankesFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 11mm -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes 9781846682315 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.69'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory... -
How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours by Harry Mount 9780670919147 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first... -
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury 9780007163052 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.15From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged - in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination. The nineteenth century saw the creation... -
A Short History Of The Vietnam War by Gordon Kerr 9781843442134 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American politics and society... -
Compact Wales: Pembrokeshire - Its Present and Its past Explored by J. Geraint Jenkins 9781845242466 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.08€2.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242466Author J. Geraint JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf -
A Heroes History of World War II: Life on the Home Front by Lorraine Childs 9780954210298 [USED COPY]
RRP: €4.75€3.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954210298Author Lorraine ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Colour History LtdPublisher Colour Heroes -
Gruesome Great Houses by Terry Deary 9781407178721 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€3.25Discover all the foul facts about fifty gruesome great houses in this addition to the Horrible Histories series. From Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to Buckingham Palace in London, Horrible Histories: Gruesome Great Houses... -
It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin 9780141398556 [USED COPY]
RRP: €3.57€2.12'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate... -
Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Gordon Olive 9781445660202 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. As Britain fought alone for its survival, 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command took to... -
Home: My Life in the Universe by Mark Ballabon 9780955948770 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.0214-year-old Leah loves wilderness survival books. In fact, sometimes she wishes she could escape into the wild. Then she could get away from the body image obsession at school and the bullies who pick on her little brother, Aiden. As long as she could... -
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft 9780140236347 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many ways,... -
Everything: Human Body (National Geographic Kids) by National Geographic Kids 9780008541583 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€6.50Fact-packed topic books for primary school children Brilliant brain, super skeleton, marvellous muscles! It's time to learn everything about the human body. Packed with facts and photos, it's ideal for homework, topic work, KS2... -
Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944 by Paul Adair 9781804361542 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blenheim: Battle for Europe by Earl Charles Spencer 9780304367047 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73How two men brought about the defeat of Louis XIV's previously unbeaten army and saved Europe from French domination - A Sunday Times BestsellerBy the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against... -
Navies in the 21st Century by Conrad Waters 9781473849914 [USED COPY]
RRP: €41.65€5.99What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War... -
The Wars Of The Roses: England's First Civil War by Trevor Royle 9780349117904 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor Royle provides a military history of the Wars while placing the conflict in the context of the...