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Civilisation by Kenneth Clark 9780719568442 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.80Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from... -
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett 9780241986264 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£8.12'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from... -
Born in the 50s by Jane Maple 9781782128854 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782128854Author Jane MapleFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain by Juliet Gardiner 9780007314539 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.64As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich... -
Raiders: World War Two True Stories by Ross Kemp 9780099574774 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.15To the people of Great BritainWorld War II was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history. Never before or since have so many people made such a personal sacrifice in the line of duty.Raiders tells the extraordinary true stories of six of the most daring... -
What the Romans Did for Us: Age 7-8, Below Average Readers by Alison Hawes 9781408112861 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£2.40The White Wolves brand is known for providing engaging books that children want to pick up, at a range of different reading levels. The new non-fiction strand reflects the range of non-fiction texts that children will come across in the real world, from... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple 9780006550969 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles... -
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe by Paul Sen 9780008262839 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£4.89'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLD Einstein's Fridge tells... -
The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer 9781472811134 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.07A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association. The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during... -
To War with Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo by Peter Snow 9781848541047 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there.What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative style that is his trademark, Peter Snow recalls how... -
Nelson's Navy by Philip Haythornthwaite 9781855323346 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£5.79Despite the many celebrated victories of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the role of the Royal Navy should never be overlooked. The 'wooden walls' formed the country's first and most important line of defence, and ranged throughout the world... -
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes 9780007137527 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£2.29The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it. ... -
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle 9780349112848 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes 9780140297966 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.41From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture. Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary... -
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop 9780007192151 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. ... -
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy 9780140512496 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£3.08This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".About the AuthorColin McEvedy is the author of The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History; The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (Europe Since 1815)... -
Welsh History: Strange but True by Geoff Brookes 9780750983426 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.62Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed - until his third wife insisted that they were removed. In 1856 Ronald Rhys from the Vale of Neath disappeared for a week after... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9781853264993 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£2.29Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality:... -
100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know by Hannah Jewell 9781473671249 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.70'Vital reading' STYLIST'...hooting with laughter - what a swashbuckler that Hannah Jewell is' MARINA HYDE'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be'... -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston 9781408800836 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£6.64As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife... -
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward 9781841196787 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.22For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9780140292626 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.03'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy... -
The Art Book by Phaidon 9780714836256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.95£2.29The Art Book is the first ever fully-illustrated art dictionary. It presents an abundance of famous, varied and colourful images by 500 of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Arranged in alphabetical order by artist, it is... -
Stalag Luft III Breakout: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan Vance 9781784384388 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Smoky the Brave by Damien Lewis 9781786483102 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest HeartSmoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to... -
The Times Great Events: A modern history through 200 years of The Times newspaper by James Owen 9780008409302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.94An accessible compilation of news-breaking stories from The Times. As one of Britain's leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the... -
Churchill War Rooms Guidebook by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897552 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.00£1.96The Cabinet War Rooms provided the secret underground headquarters for the core of the British government throughout the Second World War. This fascinating book contains all the facts about the Cabinet War Rooms and the Churchill Museum, now known as the... -
The Reading Quiz Book by Adam Sowan 9781901677768 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.68How well do you know Reading? This witty and entertaining book will test your knowledge and develop your acquaintance with the hidden corners, the events and incidents of this much-maligned town. 110 questions, including 20 photos of places to identify... -
Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs by Tim Lynch 9780750982733 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.00£2.65The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops... -
Time Travel Guides: Roman Britain and Londinium by Ben Hubbard 9781445157313 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£5.72Travel back in time to Londinium and find out all about the Romans in Britain. Like modern travel guides, the books in this series highlight must-see features of each location and explain local culture. Each highlighted destination contains an... -
The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other Characters of the Lawless West by John Ames 9781596090316 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£7.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596090316Author John AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chamberlain BrosPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 192g -
Great Britain's Great War by Jeremy Paxman 9780670919635 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.'If there is one new history of the war that you might actually enjoy this is very likely... -
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves by David Crane 9780007456680 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware. ... -
A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor 9780753817568 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The dramatic and inspiring story of one woman's incredible journey into the heart of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her... -
Parallel Lines by Peter Lantos 9781905147571 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.26"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a... -
Calm the F**k Down by Sarah Knight 9781787476196 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do YouDo you waste time overthinking things you can't do... -
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman 9780008241674 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but... -
Revise AQA GCSE (9-1) History Conflict and tension, 1918-1939 Revision Guide and Workbook: includes free online edition by Victoria Payne 9781292204772 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£1.99Designed for hassle-free, independent study and priced to meet both your and your students' budgets, this combined Revision Guide and Workbook is the smart choice for those revising for AQA GCSE (9-1) History and includes : A FREE online... -
13 Paintings Children Should Know by Angela Wenzel 9783791343235 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.53People of all ages are fascinated by Mona Lisa's beguiling smile, Van Gogh's hypnotic night sky, and Frida Kahlo's depiction of herself with a monkey. These paints and ten others are featured in the book in large reproductions with accompanying details... -
Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present by Geoffrey Hosking 9780718193607 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£11.21Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the...