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The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide by Ernle Bradford 9781497637863
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £9.32The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had... -
The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt by Christopher Dunn 9781879181502
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.09Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? The technology of harmonic resonance, claims renowned master craftsman and... -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.67Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe by James Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians.' Sebastian Faulks'Holland's skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with vivid prose.' The TimesShortlisted for the 2021 British Army Military Book of the... -
L'Odyssee De La Brigade Ramcke a El Alamein: FallschirmjaGer En eGypte, De Bab El Katara a Mersa El Brega by Hans Rechenberg
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.61El Alamein. C'est la que l'offensive de Rommel, qui semblait irresistible, est stoppee sur la route d'Alexandrie, a l'ete 1942. S'ensuivent de longues semaines de guerre de position dans les sables et roches du desert egyptien, sous un soleil de plomb... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden 9780008445614
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY The treatment of refugees... -
The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter 9780486235004
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486235004Author Howard CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage and Rome. In an epic series of battles, the mighty... -
A Savage War Of Peace by Alistair Horne
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172186Author Alistair HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.01It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is... -
1,000 Facts About Ancient Egypt by National Geographic Kids
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426332739Author National Geographic KidsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.91For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern... -
The Holocaust and North Africa by Aomar Boum 9781503607057
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.00The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory-Muslim as well as Jewish-in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North... -
Six Years a Hostage: The Extraordinary Story of the Longest-Held Al Qaeda Captive in the World by Stephen McGown
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.82THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE LONGEST-HELD AL QAEDA CAPTIVE IN THE WORLDStephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was... -
African Origin of Civilization by Diop 9781556520723
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520723Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 381g -
Crusader vs M13/40: North Africa 1941–42 David Greentree 9781472861092
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.70This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War II's Desert War. Making its combat debut in North Africa during December 1940, Italy's M13/40 medium tank was armed with... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.84After witnessing first-hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition, Richard Hamilton has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers of Morocco, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb. ... -
Second Punic War in Iberia 220–206 BC: From Hannibal at the Tagus to the Battle of Ilipa by Mir Bahmanyar 9781472859754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion of Rome. Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome... -
The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa by Brendan O'Carroll
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76Formed in July 1940 for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group was the first British special force unit. In no time the LRDG earned itself an enviable reputation for deep penetration patrols into German... -
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.33A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"-Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."-Anthony Sattin, Spectator "Commanding erudition and a swashbuckling style define this history of the Arabs"-Justin... -
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa by Christopher Silver 9781503631687
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.61From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the... -
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans 9780199669035
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from... -
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer 9780141993355
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.61The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the... -
Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds by Joseph Chetrit 9781793624949
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with the historic peoples of the region. The... -
Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne 9780190053772
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £26.70Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but... -
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.30The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.22A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This,... -
Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency Terrence G. Peterson 9781501776960
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.17Revolutionary Warfare investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary. The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation... -
Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.78The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft. Lindsey Hilsum was in Libya when Gaddafi met his squalid... -
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956 Gavin Maxwell 9780907871149
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.82the greatest Moroccan travel book of all time:vital reading for the new upmarket Marrakesh tourism - one of the bibles of British twentieth-century Orientalism - by the author of A Ring of Bright Water - describes the extraordinary medieval nature of... -
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II by Meredith Hindley 9781541762718
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.62In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key military target. Nazi agents and collaborators soon overran the city looking to capitalize on the new Vichy regime. The... -
Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt,... -
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the... -
Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.75Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its... -
The Long Range Desert Group in Action 1940-1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777416
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.37The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the LRDG from its July 1940 formation as the Long Range Patrol in North Africa, tasked with intelligence... -
The Eighth Army in North Africa by Simon Forty 9781526723796
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.74WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY The Western... -
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate...