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The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry by Lidia Maksymowicz
RRP: $37.03$36.93The Number One International Bestseller.The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived the evil Dr Josef Mengele's pseudo-medical experiments. With a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis.Lidia Maksymowicz was just three... -
Shield Breaker by Richard Cullen
RRP: $19.48$13.86Styrkar the warrior sails to dangerous lands in this thrilling new historical adventure from Richard Cullen. The sequel to Oath Bound, longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2022. England, 1068: a land gripped in the iron fist of... -
Wales: History of a Nation by David Ross 9781849343336
RRP: $15.58$11.29This popular history of Wales, now in its third edition, tells the story of Wales from Celtic origins to joining the Union, up to Brexit and 2019. It is an account of its social, political and industrial development to the modern age. It is an ideal... -
The Treaty: The gripping story of the negotiations that brought about Irish independence and led to the Civil War by Gretchen Friemann
RRP: $29.23$24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374203Author Gretchen FriemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously... -
Aberdeen FC: European Nights: Stories from Aberdeen's Greatest European Games by Ally Begg
RRP: $35.08$23.79Aberdeen have competed on the European stage since season 1967/68 and have enjoyed some epic encounters along the way, culminating in the club's greatest ever victory - beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the 1983 Cup Winner's Cup final. Ally Begg charts a path... -
Owain Glyn Dwr - Prince of Wales by R. R. Davies 9781847711274
RRP: $11.60$10.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847711274Author R R DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 172mm * 120mm * 10mm -
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780007435852
RRP: $23.38$16.44WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the... -
Medieval Women and the Law by Noel James Menuge
RRP: $38.98$32.02Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside... -
Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War by David Mathieson 9781909930094
RRP: $25.33$23.30With a foreword by Jon Snow. In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising... -
The Castle in the Wars of the Roses by Dan Spencer 9781526718693
RRP: $48.75$34.36The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of... -
Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy
RRP: $29.23$22.52Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low... -
Greek Sculpture by Nigel Spivey
RRP: $64.33$57.78Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality - provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its... -
Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig M. Koslofsky
RRP: $50.68$43.04What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with... -
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton
RRP: $21.43$15.15'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: $33.13$23.95A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of... -
Old Ireland in Colour 2 by John Breslin
RRP: $42.88$36.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374111Author John BreslinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Lonely Planet Provence & Southeast France Road Trips by Lonely Planet
RRP: $15.58$11.29Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Provence & Southeast France Road Trips is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Browse cheeses... -
The Dancing Debutante: The Adventures of a Society Beauty on and off the Stage by Elfrida Eden Fallowfield 9781861513311
RRP: $25.33$25.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513311Author Elfrida Eden FallowfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm)... -
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Hans von Luck by Hans von Luck 9781526781833
RRP: $29.23$21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Dreyfus Affair: Jaccuse and Other Writings by Emile Zola 9780300073676
$43.64In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and... -
Every Hazard and Fatigue: The Siege of Pensacola, 1781 by Joshua Provan 9781804513422
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513422Author Joshua ProvanFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Founding an Empire by Matthew Lewis 9781445671567
RRP: $39.00$26.79Henry II became King of England in 1154 after twenty years of civil war. He was the first Plantagenet king, the founder of England's most successful and longest-ruling dynasty. But Henry did not come to the throne alone. He had married Eleanor of... -
Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Sonya O. Rose 9780199273171
$145.41Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: $21.43$15.15'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance Florence as it... -
Personifying Prehistory: Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland by Joanna Bruck
$47.83The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the... -
The New History of Orkney by William P.L. Thompson
RRP: $48.75$35.72For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The prehistoric inhabitants created monuments which are unmatched anywhere in Europe, and the medieval period saw the magnificent earldom that expressed itself through the... -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: $25.33$18.80What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester... -
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega 9781324074465
RRP: $25.33$22.39What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
Timeline History of London: People Places Pageantry by Gill Davies 9781849310635
$14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849310635Author Gill DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Worth Press LtdPublisher Worth Press Ltd -
Rome. Portrait of a City by Giovanni Fanelli 9783836562713
RRP: $97.50$74.33This hefty photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital. From sepia and black and white to color, these... -
The Queen's Diamonds by Hugh Roberts
RRP: $243.75$160.17This book is the first authorised account of the history of the finest diamond jewellery in the world. It tells the story of the magnificent royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to the present day. Illustrated with a... -
Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams 9780241999530
RRP: $19.48$13.86'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, GuardianA powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte... -
Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill 9781526706324
RRP: $48.75$34.36Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous 'Kingmaker', Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England. Mythologically rumoured to... -
Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug
RRP: $42.90$32.76The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the YearWinner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the... -
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson 9781471128981
RRP: $25.33$16.73'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But... -
The Staffordshire Hoard by Kevin Leahy
RRP: $11.68$11.35On 5 July 2009 a metal-detectorist started to unearth gold objects in a Staffordshire field. Thus began the discovery of the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. Consisting of over 1600 items - including fittings from the hilts of swords,... -
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott
$29.45As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain's Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood... -
Hockley: Britain in Old Photographs by David Harvey 9780752447216
RRP: $25.33$18.76This fascinating collection of photographs, including many rare and old images (some from as early as 1865) explores Hockley over the past century and a half, and details the social, architectural and functional changes in the area. With sections on... -
Elizabeth I: The Making of a Queen by Laura Brennan 9781526714572
RRP: $38.98$27.85Elizabeth I is arguably one of the greatest monarchs and women of English history. Against an uncertain political and religious backdrop of post-reformation Europe she ruled at the conception of social modernisation, living in the shadow of the infamy of...