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Welsh Legends and Myths by Graham Watkins 9781291985276 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.65$15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291985276Author Graham WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press Inc -
The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History by Tessa Dunlop 9781471161346 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$4.81THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tessa Dunlop...succeeds in weaving a rich tapestry of experiences.' Independent'A warm-hearted and engaging read, The Century Girls is replete with wonderful characters.' Sunday Express'A delightful book... all about women and... -
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson 9780753823613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.85The rise and fall of Henry's notorious minister - the most corrupt Chancellor in English history'Gripping... Hutchinson tells his story with infectious relish and vividly evokes the politics and personalities of this extraordinary decade' LITERARY... -
Paras: The Inside Story of Britain's Toughest Regiment. by John Parker 9781857828009 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.81Formed at the personal insistence of Winston Churchill after the Nazi Blitzkrieg of Western Europe, the Parachute Regiment quickly acquired a formidable reputation as tough, fearless soldiers; it was the Germans themselves who christened then the 'Red... -
The Penguin History of Europe by J. Roberts 9780140265613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88$5.57Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, The Penguin History of Europe traces the... -
The Real Bravo Two Zero by Michael Asher 9780304365548 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.74The true story of the most famous SAS operation in history.'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781853264665 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48$4.81Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did... -
Always Remember Your Name: 'Heartbreaking and utterly uplifting' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci 9781786581242 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.52'These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. With this book, they break the silence and give us the immeasurable gift of their story.' Gwen Strauss, author of The NineOn 28 March 1944, Italian... -
War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1939-1945 by Marcus Faulkner 9781848320475 [USED COPY]
RRP: $105.00$19.76In the vast literature of the Second World War there has never been a naval atlas showing graphically the complexities of the war at sea, a war which spread across every ocean. This new book will fill the gap.With more than 200 beautifully-designed maps... -
Escobar: The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Powerful Criminal by Roberto Escobar 9780340951101 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in... -
The National Archives: The Great Fire of London Unclassified: Secrets Revealed! by Nick Hunter 9781408193037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57The Great Fire of London destroyed the homes of almost 90 per cent of London's population. Could it have been prevented? From the outbreak of the fire at a bakery on Pudding lane, to fire fighting techniques and meddling Lord Mayors, The Great Fire... -
Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West by Michael Scott 9780099592082 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$5.57'This vivid and engaging book brings to life some of the most important moments in ancient history, moments that have shaped not only the politics and culture of bygone eras, but the institutions, thoughts and fantasies of our time.' Yuval Noah Harari... -
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount 9781471129469 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan... -
Mayflower: A Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780007151288 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil. ... -
1940: The World in Flames by Richard Collier 9781800325913 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57The most shocking year in history. Week by week, hour by hour.In his brilliant reconstruction, Richard Collier vividly brings one of the most momentous years in world history to life once again.This was a time of blitzkrieg and the Blitz; of the Battle... -
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life by Greg Jenner 9781780225654 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 9780007580576 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$1.43The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
A Countryman's Lot: Tales From The Dales by Max Hardcastle 9780751544190 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.89Max and Vicky Hardcastle have a daydream . . .One day, they'll sell their cramped city-centre antiques shop and the overflowing upstairs flat and relocate to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. If they could only find the perfect place to house both family... -
When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain by Alan Titchmarsh 9781849901529 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$2.63In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. With characteristic wit, warmth and humour he draws on the... -
The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell 9780140143959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.57This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles,... -
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead 9780099590156 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.81SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including... -
Didn't Happen of the Year Awards - The Official Book: Exposing a world of online exaggeration by Harry Barnes 9781915538000 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$6.47With over 420k followers on Twitter, The Didn't Happen of the Year Awards exposes, celebrates and ridicules social media users who, shall we say, are prone to a little lying exaggeration. Whether it's Chris Eubank telling the world that aged 18, he... -
Blind Mans Bluff by Christopher Drew 9780099409984 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81__________________________Adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea: the remarkable reality of Cold War submarine warfareIn Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter... -
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family by Olivia Williams 9781472269799 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.57THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real... -
Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson 9781138779976 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$17.91Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use... -
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith 9781902419909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$12.03'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an... -
Keeper Of Genesis by Robert Bauval 9780099416364 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS AND THE ORION MYSTERY'An exciting book . . . deservedly a bestseller' SPECTATOR___________________________________________In Keeper of Genesis, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval present a tour de... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong 9780007241972 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith 9780091898267 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.81Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$8.53On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security... -
Phoenix Squadron: HMS Ark Royal, Britain's last Topguns and the untold story of their most dramatic mission by Rowland White 9780552152907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS... -
The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual by Martin Robson 9781472830449 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.70The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring... -
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 9780330452458 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to... -
A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond by Emily Mayhew 9781781255865 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.50What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated... -
West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State by Mark Stoyle 9780859896887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$20.62West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book explores the unprecedented series of rebellions which took... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Dio 9780140444483 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$8.36Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph... -
Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind by Sean Longden 9781845299774 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81THE TRUE STORY OF THE 41,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK, MAY 1940'Meticulously researched, very well written and deeply moving' Andrew Roberts'Few readers will be unmoved by Sean Longden's account' Dominic... -
Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century by Charles Allen 9780349104973 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.47The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by... -
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones 9781786498953 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$6.13In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped... -
The Year Of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 by Thomas Pakenham 9780349112527 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.81This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a...