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Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson 9780006531913 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€2.87A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail. Magnus Magnusson's starting point is Sir Walter Scott's classic version of... -
World War I by Sir Tony Robinson 9781447227717 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.53This paperback edition includes a link to download a free audio version of the book read by Sir Tony Robinson.In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders World War I Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most... -
On This Day in History by Dan Snow 9781473691308 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain... -
The Harrier Story by Peter R March 9780750944878 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73The 'Jump-jet' was the world's first vertical/short take-off and landing (VSTOL) operational jet aircraft. Developed using the revolutionary Pegasus engine, the Harrier has served the RAF and US Marine Corps well for over 30 years. Here, vividly told, is... -
Major and Mrs.Holt's Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient by Tonie Holt 9780850525519 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€6.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Reign of Elizabeth: England 1558-1603 by Barbara Mervyn 9780719574863 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.70€9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719574863Author Barbara MervynFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 218mm... -
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell 9780007539406 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller 'A fabulous story, superbly told ... cannot be bettered' Max Hastings 'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' ... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy 9780753828960 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.73The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and... -
Tudor England by John Guy 9780192852137 [USED COPY]
RRP: €34.50€2.73From Henry VII's capture of the crown at Bosworth in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, Tudor England witnessed far-reaching changes in politics and religion under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth herself. John Guy's compelling new... -
Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor 9780141032399 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€1.49THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly compelling... -
Subsmash: The Mysterious Disappearance of HM Submarine Affray by Alan Gallop 9780752459301 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.69In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages. Affray had put to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel. She radioed her last position... -
Scott of the Antarctic by Evelyn Dowdeswell 9781406245899 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€4.68To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Scott's Antarctic trek, and his tragic death before returning home, this book charts the epic race to the South Pole. Follow the expedition team in their preparation, and experience daily life in the frozen South... -
A History Of God by Karen Armstrong 9780099273677 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.00The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often... -
Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin 9781801102599 [USED COPY]
RRP: €33.31€18.34This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work... -
A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre 9781408851784 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE 'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday... -
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook 9780141981604 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.84The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst... -
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab 9781802793499 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€3.01From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. 'McNab's first major non-autobiographical work of non-fiction ... -
Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna 9780862785093 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.53The final book in the famine trilogy For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with evictions,... -
Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 by Fergal Keane 9780007132416 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.01Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War. Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border... -
Wales on This Day by Huw Rees 9781915279118 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€8.83Discover 366 fun and surprising stories about Wales - each linked to a specific day of the year. Did you know that the recipe of Tennessee's famous Jack Daniel's whiskey is rumoured to have originated in Llanelli, or that the world's first radio play was... -
The Little Book of the Tudors by Annie Bullen 9780750993388 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€7.25The 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... -
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie 9781784705749 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.71** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Astonishing' ANTONY BEEVOR 'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' MAX HASTINGSA thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting... -
Who Was: Samuel Pepys? by Paul Harrison 9780750259897 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€3.07Samuel Pepys is famous for the diary he wrote 400 years ago. The diary tells us about lots of important events such as the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague. Find out why people thought his diary was written in code, why Pepys was known as the... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor 9780241968970 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.15THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear... -
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 9781788164528 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€5.34New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 'A brutal record of segregated America ... essential reading' Guardian 'An anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin... -
The One That Got Away by Chris Ryan 9780099556671 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission. Only one evaded capture.This is his true story.The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous true stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Late on the evening of 24... -
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School by James Felton 9780751582895 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.25'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'BrienTwitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, fully illustrated and chronicling 52 of the most... -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury 9781408852910 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.96A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain... -
140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon by David Dean Barrett 9780750995962 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€11.40During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United... -
The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers by Keith McCloskey 9780750953658 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€5.16On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with a relief lighthouseman and fresh provisions. The lighthouse had been in operation for a year, but it had been noted that no light had been seen from Eilean... -
Life Below Stairs: in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House by Sian Evans 9781907892110 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.21The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the physical evidence can be seen in surviving servants' quarters, the material of their everyday life, even their... -
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst 9780007204434 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.28An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the... -
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings 9780008364991 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.70€7.21A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.20The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family by Jacques Peretti 9781473646452 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€2.73'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking... -
Enquiring History: The Crusades: Conflict and Controversy, 1095-1291 by Michael Riley 9781444144512 [USED COPY]
RRP: €26.18€3.56Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.Enquiring History: It makes you think! The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The Tudors: England, 1485-1603 by Roger K. Turvey 9781471876103 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.88€3.65Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349104805 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph... -
Atlas of Irish History by Sean Duffy 9780717153992 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€5.12'Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island, creating an historical dynamic whose dispersed voices are now...