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Nelson Companion by Colin White 9781858337654 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858337654Author Colin WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 858g -
The Illustrated History of the Civil War: The Soldiers, Generals, Weapons and Battles of the Civil War by William C. Davis 9781858337142 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858337142Author William C. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 1580g -
Chronicles of the Great War: Western Front 1914-1918 - 80th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Ypres/Arras by Peter Simpkins 9781858336473 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858336473Author Peter SimpkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 1217g -
Chronicles of the Crusades: Eye-witness Accounts of the Wars Between Christianity and Islam by Elizabeth M. Hallam 9781858335896 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858335896Author Elizabeth M. HallamFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Colour Library Direct LtdPublisher Colour Library Direct LtdWeight(grams) 1761g -
Children's History of London by Jim Pipe 9781849932103 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849932103Author Jim PipeFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Hometown WorldPublisher Orangutan Books -
Canals: The Making of a Nation by Liz McIvor 9781849901086 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how... -
Gold: Inside the Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal by Matthew Hart 9781849839679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.84Since the 2008 financial crisis the price of gold has sky-rocketed, from around $800 an ounce in August of that year to a peak of around $1,700 an ounce. Fortunes have been made, and this has kicked off an unprecedented gold-mining and prospective boom... -
Tate Introductions: Matisse by Juliette Rizzi 9781849762984 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.90Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a printmaker and sculptor, but is best known as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one... -
Why the Tories Won: The Inside Story of the 2015 Election by Tim Ross 9781849549479 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.26When David Cameron returned to Tory headquarters early on the morning of 8 May, he declared his sensational election victory to be 'the sweetest' moment of his political career. The Conservatives had won their first Commons majority for twenty-three... -
The End of Apartheid: Diary of a Revolution by Robin Renwick 9781849547925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.36On 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that changed the history of South Africa. Nine days later, the world watched as Nelson Mandela walked free from the Viktor Verster prison. In the midst of these events was Lord Renwick, Margaret Thatcher's... -
Klop: Britain's most ingenious spy by Peter Day 9781849546935 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious secret agent, but he wasn't authorised to kill. Instead, he was authorised to tell tall tales, bemusing and beguiling his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the... -
Tommy at War 1914 - 1918 by John Sadler 9781849545143 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.292014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, arguably the definitive conflict in the history of Europe. Never before or since has such a great swell of popular sentiment produced such a patriotic rush to arms. In the trenches and on the... -
You Know You're a Child of the 1990s When... by Charlie Ellis 9781849538961 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.92Gameboys, grunge, Friends and The Fresh Prince - growing up in the 1990s was rad. So why not take yourself back to a time when the Spice Girls were topping the charts and Push Pops were being eaten by the thousands, to discover if you really are a true... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill by Max Morris 9781849538336 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29'The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.' This inspiring collection gathers together Winston Churchill's wisest and wittiest quotations.The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill showcases... -
The Battle of Britain: A Miscellany by Norman Ferguson 9781849537421 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92Have you ever wondered... * How fast a Spitfire could travel? * Which pilot won Fighter Command's only Victoria Cross? * What a `Stuka Party' was? Telling the stories of the commanders, the air raids, the pilots, the aircraft and the vital use of the... -
The First World War: A Miscellany by Norman Ferguson 9781849534529 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.78Have you ever wondered who fired the first British shot of World War One? Or who claimed the glory of downing the Red Baron? And what has Winnie the Pooh got to do with it all? Telling the stories of the battles, the aircraft, the weapons, the soldiers,... -
Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World by Alan Beard 9781849532327 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65I live life like a candle in the wind. Whatever that means. LOL #Mwah #Mwah MARILYN! 7:09PM July 18,1953 THEY TWEETED WHAAAATTT? History's most famous personalities share their ridiculous, scandalous, and humorous thoughts. From the ancient tweets of... -
You Know You're a Child of the 50s When... by Jenny Leighton 9781849531603 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£2.32You can still do a perfect Elvis sneer, believing that it thrills the ladies. You are one of the few people that can distinguish the balls in snooker on a black and white TV screen. Do you remember when Elvis first `entered the building', dancing to... -
The King's Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman Who Stole George I's Heart by Claudia Gold 9781849164115 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29As the mistress and possible secret wife of George I, Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, was England's first Georgian queen in all but name. Her nickname amongst the English, who loathed her and found her scrawny, was 'the Maypole'. Others sources... -
Five Days that Shocked the World by Nicholas Best 9781849089463 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.54April 1945. The mutilated bodies of Mussolini and his mistress hang by their heels in Milan while a hostile crowd whistles and jeers. Desperate to avoid the same fate, Adolf Hitler leaves orders for his own body to be burned after his death. With the... -
Wings of Courage: American Fighters in World War II by Tony Holmes 9781849082198 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.84From the war-torn skies over Europe to the empty expanses of the Pacific, pilots were the vanguard of the American military machine during the dark days of World War II. Discover their experiences as numerous eyewitness accounts explore the terror,... -
Cleopatra: Last Pharaoh of Egypt by M. J. Trow 9781849019781 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£3.83When Cleopatra took the throne of the kingdom of Egypt, the pyramids and Sphinx were already ancient wonders. As queen she faced conquest by a new, all-powerful empire. A Ptolemy, descended from a general of Alexander the Great who conquered the Nile as... -
Survivor: The Autobiography by Jon E. Lewis 9781849018180 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.25This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of... -
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II by Michael Paterson 9781849015813 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.86Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma 9781848879362 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.65Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath... -
Wings: The RAF at War, 1912-2012 by Patrick Bishop 9781848878921 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' - the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command - held Goeering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby... -
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar 9781848871700 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution. Blood, Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been... -
Afghan Frontier: At the Crossroads of Conflict by Victoria Schofield 9781848851887 [USED COPY]
£17.10'The most dangerous place in the world' - Barack Obama. The borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan have become the arena for a global conflict with consequences that defy prediction. "Afghan Frontier" traces the history of this region as a... -
Century of British Naval Aviation 1909 - 2009, A by David Wragg 9781848840362 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£3.44Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding colour to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical... -
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne by Jonathan Beckman 9781848549982 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.14'A hell of a tale and Jonathan Beckman gives it all the verve and swagger it deserves . . . I read it with fascination, delight and frequent snorts of incredulity' The Spectator On 5 September 1785, a trial began in Paris that would divide the country,... -
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen 9781848548862 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the... -
After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe by Michael Jones 9781848544949 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£3.72On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Donitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet, remarkably, the war in... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781848375758 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£5.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848375758Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
A History of Britain by Richard Dargie 9781848371620 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848371620Author Richard DargieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Vol V: Victory and Aftermath January 1918uJune 1919 by Arthur Jacob Marder 9781848322035 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£3.42The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination... -
Over 1000 Fantastic History Facts by Belinda Gallagher 9781848106611 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.80This title provides children with a mass of knowledge about history in over 1000 numbered facts. The numbering acts as a benchmark, so children can clearly chart their progress as they explore important events that have shaped our world.Book... -
Whitby Abbey by Steven Brindle 9781848020726 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£2.29High on their windswept headland, the imposing ruins of Whitby Abbey dominate the busy harbour town below. Originally founded in the seventh century and ruled by the renowned Abbess Hild, the first monastery here was the setting for one of the defining... -
The Great War: The People's Story (Official TV Tie-In) by Isobel Charman 9781847947253 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.80During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died - a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context. Consequently we struggle to truly grasp the impact this devastating conflict must have had on people's... -
What's in a Surname?: A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker by David McKie 9781847946942 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Surnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families' pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald,... -
The Thinking Man's Idiot: The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson by A. Vasudevan 9781847733597 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£1.87Boris Johnson [is] known as the thinking man's idiot - Humphrey Lyttelton on "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth/profit matrix and stay conscious - Boris on why he quit after a...