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Learn all about the BLITZED BRITS, with all the nasty bits left in. Find out what really happened in Dad's Army, see how to make a rude noise with a gas mask and Learn why the Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty! Includes a...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Frightful First World War, including what the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses, how sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack and why a pair of old socks gave away top...

How did your grandparents travel around? When did flying abroad become popular? When did people start to worry about the number of cars on the road? Find all the answers and more in this book about how transport has changed since the 1950s.Book...

How do we know about the American slaves who escaped using what is known as the Underground Railroad, and about the people that organized it? What were they escaping from, and what happened to them? This book shows how we know about the fugitives and...

This is a spectacular and informative children's guide about the rise and fall of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas. With incredible colour photography, Eyewitness Aztec explores the civilizations in Central and South America who built vast empires and left...

Help your child get to the top of the class fast with this Eyewitness Project Book on Ancient EgyptFrom famous pharaohs to priceless pyramids, watch your child take their knowledge of Ancient Egypt to the next level using this fill-in home-study workbook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781020468568Author AnonymousFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955942525Author Gordon KerrFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint OmnipressPublisher OmnipressWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 257mm * 127mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955622106Format HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Dark Horse PublicationsPublisher Dark Horse Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955022135Format PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 537g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951084205Author W.H. NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint W.H.(Ben) NormanPublisher W.H.(Ben) Norman

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950813714Format PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint John ButterworthPublisher John Butterworth

This is not only a basic recipe book. It is also an essential guide and handy reference to the three major types of ovens on the market. If you are thinking of buying a microwave, or have bought one and want to get the best from it, you need this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947782504Author Cameron McNeishFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint David Flatman LtdPublisher Lomond Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947645342Author Michael LeveyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint National Gallery Company LtdPublisher National Gallery Company LtdWeight(grams) 1017g

The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from these shores from their earliest recorded history and the richness and quality of the deposits meant that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate quarrying was one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907771111Author Mike CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen(2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen(2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Lady of the Rivers(2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three...

This fascinating book looks at a typical day in a big house, the relationship between the master and mistress and their valet and maid; the children and their servants; the various departments inside and outside a big house; the London season and country...

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Horatio Nelson was the greatest naval commander of his age. In this masterly analysis of his fighting career, the acclaimed naval historian Oliver Warner examines every battle in which he participated, but concentrates on the three in which his command...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811718141Author Daniel Allen ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786719648Author Aubery BurlFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780785814047Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Castle Books,USPublisher Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

For hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors have walked these isles burying, dropping and throwing away their belongings, and now these treaures lie waiting for us, keeping their secrets until we uncover them once more.Every year, hundreds of...

Chin up, Britain! Now is the time to return to basic commonsense and embrace a new austerity. Can't afford a holiday? Slather on some sun tan lotion that smells of coconuts, at least you'll smell like you're on holiday. Don't know what to do with a...

'Hugely entertaining . . . What a joy to be able to recommend a book about misery, bloodshed and grisly superstition for being funny, compassionate and clear-eyed' Independent on SundayThe story of Roman Britain, told by a family who lived there.It is AD...

Controversial and groundbreaking account of the infamous East African campaign during the First World War'Superb' Sunday Times * * * 'Masterful' Daily Mail * * * 'Gripping' Daily TelegraphThe Great War's East Africa campaign was, and remains, of...

Night after night, the young men, some just out of school, went off on sorties, having pushed to the back of their minds the unpalatable awareness that they might never see another dawn. If death did not find them in the first few terrifying sorties they...

This book is a collection of essays by well known First World War contributors such as Dr Stephen Bull, Ian Drury, Thomas A. Hoff, Martin Pegler and Ian Sumner. World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of...

The wide ranging content is laid out in an informative newspaper-style and covers subjects including sporting records, exploration, film and enterainment, music and literature, fashion, scientific achievements, politics, inventions, quotations,...

Cocaine has started wars, prompted invasions, embarrassed politicians, toppled governments, filled prisons, created billionaires, fuelled parties, bankrupted countries and taken thousands of lives. All because of a small, unremarkable-looking shrub...

Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night. This book answers the questions of history that lie behind the celebrations of 5 November. ...

They were the most unlikely of siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi.Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and...

The Royal Air Force was formed in 1918 to defend the skies over Britain during the First World War and made a major contribution to winning one of the largest and most devastating conflicts of the twentieth century. Yet, when the war ended, its existence...

The five Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - were some of the most influential rulers in British history. This volume explores all aspects of life in the Tudor age, from life at court (and at the grand country...

What do Richard Whiteley, Gareth Gates, cricketer Jim Laker, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo and Harry Corbett, inventor of Sooty, have in common? They are all children of Bradford and they all feature in Derek Lister's collection of...

Drawing upon personal recollections, contemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1944...

Few RAF pilots flew operationally from the beginning to the end of the Second World War. Fewer still can claim to have experienced action from Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, El Alamein and the D-Day landings, to bomber escort duty in the closing days...