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During the dark days of the Second World War, the wartime diet's low fat, high fibre and sensibly sized portions meant that the British population enjoyed a level of health and fitness that has never been matched since. Using the wartime diet as a model,...

The local post office has a special place in the social history of Britain. This book provides an historical overview of the development of this public institution - from 'letter receiving house' to familiar high-street presence. It outlines the range of...

From the wooden horse of Troy to the Gulf War, military history has been as much marked by chance and error, as by gallantry and heroism. Many conflicts have been decided by the caprice of weather, bad intelligence, heroism where it wasn't expected, or...

If you had to pack a huge container full of everything you will need in a lifetime, what would you take with you? A human lifespan is, on average, 79 years. In that time a person living in the UK will eat on average 479 fish fingers, take 7163 baths,...

The Early Stuarts 1603-1660Book InformationISBN 9780198217046Author Godfrey DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 636g

Bletchley Park was arguably the most successful intelligence operation in world history, the top scecret workplace of the remarkable people who cracked Germany's vaunted Enigma Code. Almost to the end of the war, the Germans had firm faith in the Enigma...

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This is the story of Operation Overlord, told in the words of the men who were there. Robin Neillands and Roderick de Normann have sought out some of the unsung heroes of D-Day, men of every rank and arm of service, from all the major nations involved,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845275556Author Lyn EbenezerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

The Renaissance, French for 'rebirth', was undoubtedly the most intensely creative period in history. This explosion of activity is reflected perhaps more than elsewhere in the art and architecture of the period. The legacy the artists, sculptors,...

The last 30 years have seen a huge growth of interest in local and family history both as a subject for the general enthusiast and as an area of academic study. With over 2000 entries, this "Companion" provides detailed summaries of the latest knowledge...

Jocelin of Brakelond was a monk in the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. His narrative of events between 1173 and 1202, presented here in translation, provides an insight into the life of a medieval religious community and the management of a vast feudal estate...

Modern art has radically extended the conventional medium of sculpture and painting. Following on innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - particularly in the work of Duchamp - artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908973375Author David ArscottFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954209650Author Chris MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Tanners Yard PressPublisher Tanners Yard Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946045242Author John W. PerkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Merton Priory Press LtdPublisher Merton Priory Press Ltd

The Women's Land Army, better known as the Land Girls, were vital to the war effort from their early days in the First World War and their hard work in the Second World War until they were finally disbanded in October, 1950. Using original interviews and...

Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated focussing on the presidencies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951210017Author Salisbury Civic SocietyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Salisbury Civic SocietyPublisher Salisbury Civic SocietyWeight(grams) 1050g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683307549Author The Editors of Time for KidsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Time for Kids BooksPublisher Time for Kids BooksWeight(grams)...

This is the second volume, but the last to be published of a trilogy - the other volumes being Smashing the Atlantic Wall and The Battle of the Bulge. Monty's Rhine Adventure begins immediately after the Normandy invasion with the euphoria surrounding...

The question posed to the author once by a prospective visitor to Wales - "What is there to see?" - is not susceptible of a short, or quick, answer. For the delights of Wales are cumulative and understated: a succession of small country...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908336026Author Leighton BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Menin HousePublisher Tommies Guides

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780828104340Author S. L. A. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint American Heritage Publishing CoPublisher American Heritage Publishing...

Tells the story of the knight in the 14th and 15th centuries - his education and upbringing, his training, war and allegiances. From Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III, this text captures the drama, chivalry and fanaticism of the...

'The future hasn't happened yet. The idea that our civilisation is doomed is not established fact. It is a story we tell ourselves.' In the 1980s, we gave up on the future. When we look ahead now, we imagine economic collapse, environmental disaster and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620074216Author Barbara ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Author-PublishersPublisher Author-Publishers

Domesday Book is a statistical survey of England in 1086 A.D. it is a census of the population and productive resources of the country, of their value and of who held them. It was unmatched in Europe for many centuries, the product of a sophisticated and...

Preston Remembered is a fascinating collection of articles written by author and Lancashire Evening Post historian Keith Johnson. Take a nostalgic journey into Preston’s colourful past, recalling the events that transformed this historic cotton town into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840672954Author Aubrey NewmanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Caxton EditionsPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 205g

In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts. The age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was...

A history of Rhondda.Book InformationISBN 9780752433882Author Emrys JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 165mm * 10mm

In the early morning of 20 April 1942, forty-seven Spitfire Vs of 601 and 603 Squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force launched from the deck of the American aircraft carrier the USS Wasp, which had sailed to a position north of Algiers. The planes were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861016952Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Salamander BooksPublisher Salamander Books LtdWeight(grams) 348g

A unique piece of London, cradle of design talent, heartland of the capital's music scene, multicultural melting pot, Camden Lock is the world's most famous market. The Lock started life as a collection of craft units housed in Victorian horse stables in...

The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur,...

'Heart of England Fairs' is a unique collection of nearly 200 photographs taken by Midlands engineer and fairground enthusiast Jack Leeson. Jack photographed his first images at Rugby Fair in June 1949 and continued taking pictures that covered all...

The small Saxon settlement of Bedricesworth was transformed when the body of Edmund, martyred king of the East Saxons, was brought here in the early 10th century. Around it grew up one of the largest abbeys in England and a new, planned town, the...

Pirates of Barbary is an extraordinary record of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who terrorised the Mediterranean and beyond throughout the seventeenth century. From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers,...