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The Lapsed Protestant by Glenn Patterson 9781905494248 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905494248Author Glenn PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island Books -
Surrealism (Movements Mod Art) by Fiona Bradley 9781854371850 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.80$4.75Surrealism was one of the most interesting and influential at movements of the 20th century. A collective adventure begun by a small group of intellectuals in Paris in the early 1920s, amongst them Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali, its... -
Mill Girl: A Victorian Girl's Diary, 1842-1843 by Sue Reid 9781407103730 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68$3.74In spring 1842, Eliza is shocked when she is sent to work in the Manchester cotton mills - the noisy, suffocating mills. The work is backbreaking and dangerous - and when she sees her friends' lives wrecked by poverty, sickness and unrest, Eliza realizes... -
Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary 9781407104218 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.58$3.74Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire, including how a war started when a Brit was sitting on a stool, who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls and why a British soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe. With a bold... -
Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History by Norman D. Anderson 9780879725327 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.50$20.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wanted! Wanted Posters of the Old West: Stories Behind the Crimes by Barbara Fifer 9781560372639 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.90$7.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560372639Author Barbara FiferFormat PaperbackImprint Farcountry PressPublisher Farcountry PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Impressionism by Phoebe Pool 9780500200568 [USED COPY]
$3.97The Impressionists--Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, and Renoir--are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. With imagination and insight, the author brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists and... -
Egyptian Mummies by Barbara Adams 9780852639443 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68$4.87A concise history of the development of the process of mummification in ancient Egypt. It commences with the burial practices of Predynastic times and then goes through the material evidence for mummification from the Early Dynastic Period to its decline... -
Children's Encyclopaedia of History: First Civilizations to the Fall of Rome by Anne Millard 9780746010181 [USED COPY]
$4.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780746010181Author Anne MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Usborne Publishing LtdPublisher Usborne Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 216g -
History on Our Side: Wales and the 1984/5 Miners' Strike by Hywel Francis 9781905762453 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$13.65"History on Our Side" is an account of the great miners' strike of 1984-85 as it happened in the Welsh coalfields, written by a well-known historian of the miners who was also an active participant in the strike. As chair of both the Neath,... -
Environment and History: The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa by William Beinart 9780415114684 [USED COPY]
RRP: $88.18$8.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Life in a Medieval Castle by Brian Williams 9781841653303 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.60$4.47Pitkin presents the fascinating and engaging story of everyday life in and around castles - from 1066 to the 1400s. Alongside the Church, the stone castle was one of the enduring symbols of medieval life. To the poor, its intimidating walls represented... -
Defence of Houses by G a Wade 9781783312504 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783312504Author G a WadeFormat PaperbackImprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 54g -
A History of Wales, 1660-1815 by E.D. Evans 9780708312308 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48$5.33"A History of Wales 1660-1815" is the second volume of a trilogy on the history of Wales from 1485 to 1906. Beginning with the political activity of the period, the author traces developments in education, the religious explosion of the Methodist... -
Kazakhstan by Zoran Pavlovic 9780791072318 [USED COPY]
RRP: $62.90$56.47; Excellent introductory texts.; These information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture; Full-colour illustrations and full-colour maps throughout Comprehensive... -
Tet Offensive 1968: Turning point in Vietnam by James Arnold 9780850459609 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$14.20The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other... -
Discovering Hill Figures by Kate Bergamar 9780747803454 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68$4.47'There are more than thirty major figures cut out of the grass on Britain's hillsides; cut as religious symbols, way markers, or as decoration to the landscape. Often, although prominently placed, the figures are overlooked, and in this book the author... -
1914: Mons by Jack Horsfall 9780850526776 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$13.48In the context of the whole war, Mons was a small-scale affair, but its importance was crucial partly because it was the first time in nearly 100 years that the British Army had been engaged in warfare on the European continent.'Book InformationISBN... -
The Legacy of the Italian Resistance by Philip Cooke 9781137331250 [USED COPY]
RRP: $94.48$29.48This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this... -
Battle in Iraq: Letters and Diaries of the First World War by J.M. Hammond 9781845119638 [USED COPY]
RRP: $94.50$4.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Book of Five Swords and a Scroll by Stanford D. Carman 9781411627406 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.73$20.58A Book of Five Swords and a Scroll, is about five Japanese swords that came to the United States after W.W.II and a Japanese hanging scroll of a 'Seated Samurai. The book is richly illustrated with over 110 photographs of these swords, map segments, and... -
The life of Joseph Hodges Choate as gathered chiefly from his letters (Volume II) by Edward Sandford Martin 9789354000102 [USED COPY]
$29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354000102Author Edward Sandford MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 590g -
Theory for Classics: A Student's Guide by Louise Hitchcock 9780415454988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $79.78$12.22This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with... -
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers 9780307387943 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.80$4.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2010 and L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307387943Author Dave EggersFormat... -
Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933 by L. G. Moses 9780826320896 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.50$18.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Operation Nordwind 1945: Hitler’s last offensive in the West by Steven J. Zaloga 9781846036835 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$13.92Operation Nordwind is one of the lesser known campaigns of World War II yet one of the more intriguing. Largely overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge further north, Nordwind was the last great operation by the Waffen-SS Panzer divisions in the west,... -
War or Peace?: 1. The Long Failure of Western Arms by Alan Storkey 9781903576021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$7.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903576021Author Alan StorkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Christian Studies PressPublisher Christian Studies PressWeight(grams)... -
The Drive on Moscow, 1941: Operation Taifun and Germany's First Great Crisis in World War II by Niklas Zetterling 9781612005966 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$8.40At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive... -
On Life: A Collection of Poems and Writings by Peter Danby 9781789632262 [USED COPY]
$19.49On Life is a collection of poems and writings about one life and about all life. It captures memories of the life of a young lad from North Devon who never really grew up but simply went from one adventure to the next, travelling the world and seeing the... -
The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950 by William Beinart 9780199541225 [USED COPY]
RRP: $126.00$17.91The Rise of Conservation in South Africa is an innovative contribution to the growing comparative field of environmental history. Beinart's major theme is the history of conservationist ideas in South Africa. He focuses largely on the livestock farming... -
Invasion 1944: The Full Story of D-Day by John Frayn Turner 9781781592700 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$3.93In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France's Normandy peninsula. Invasion '44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years... -
Retreat and Rearguard 1914: The BEF's Actions From Mons to the Marne by Jerry Murland 9781848843912 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$12.35The British action at Mons on 23 August 1914 was the catalyst for what became a full blown retreat over 200 blood drenched miles. In this fascinating book the Author examines eighteen of the ensuing desperate rearguard actions that occurred over the... -
Betrayal in Berlin: George Blake, the Berlin Tunnel and the Greatest Conspiracy of the Cold War by Steve Vogel 9781473647480 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$5.75'Riveting and vivid ... At the heart of the book is Blake's own remarkable story, which Vogel tells with some sympathy, if not approval. It reads like a Hollywood screenplay' Foreign Affairs'A fascinating account of Blake's career as a spy ... Blake's... -
LITTLE BOOK OF WALES by 9780711716124 [USED COPY]
$5.06Wales is a small country full of surprises, and this little book is full of fascinating facts that prove, once and for all, that Wales isn't a nation of coal-mines and male voice choirs. The Welsh countryside changes with every mile. Deep valleys lead to... -
European Political Thought 1600-1700 by W. M. Spellman 9780333676042 [USED COPY]
RRP: $73.48$9.03The European seventeenth century saw the seeming resolution of two great conflicts.Through the nightmares of the Thirty Years War and the British civil wars, the murderous religious hatreds that had dominated the previous period finally burnt themselves... -
The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front by Malcolm Brown 9780330484756 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.81'An unrivalled and readable introduction to the years of Trench Warfare' TESThe First World War was won and lost on the Western Front. Covering the whole war, from the guns of August 1914 to the sudden silence of the November 1918 Armistice, the IWM Book... -
The Celts by Dr. Alice Roberts 9781784293321 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$10.37'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe:... -
The Illustrated Book of Patriotism by George Courtauld 9780091909673 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.50$4.39Essential British words and deeds, dates and phrases, songs, speeches and commandments from Stonehenge to the present day in one simple book. No judgement, no padding, just the bare bones of our glorious history, brought to life by soul-stirring... -
Midget Submarines of the Second World War by Paul Kemp 9781861760425 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.50$21.08A guide to the developmental history of the midget submarines employed during the Second World War, in the SHIPSHAPE series. The book covers the British Chariot and X-Craft, the Italian Maiale, the Japanese Ko-Hyoteki, the German Neger, and the Japanese... -
Hertfordshire, the Way We Were: In the Forties, Fifties and Sixties by Richard Whitmore 9781853067556 [USED COPY]
$4.52This book presents a nostalgic look back at life in the county during this period from war-time, post-war shortages, and the birth of rock "n" roll, through to the swinging 60's. It is illustrated with original photographs and advertisements...