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The Greeks And Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality In Ancient Greece by James Davidson
RRP: €20.22€14.21A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decades' (Andrew Roberts, MAIL ON SUNDAY)Kenneth Dover's 1978 GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY remains the most recent... -
The Bad Popes by E R Chamberlin 9781913518776
RRP: €15.46€13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518776Author E R ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Ages 7 to 8 by Tim Rasinski 9780702309359
RRP: €23.80€15.30Children climb to new heights in reading and writing with these engaging word-building games! Working from the starting word at the bottom, children read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words ... -
Hymn to Murder (Hugh Corbett 21) by Paul Doherty 9781472259219
RRP: €11.89€8.09Hugh Corbett returns in the twenty-first gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard Cornwell you will love this. Secrets simmer in the lonely wasteland of... -
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe by E. M. Rose
RRP: €16.65€11.60In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of... -
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague by Norman Eisen
RRP: €17.84€11.66When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating,... -
Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute by Emma Craigie
RRP: €15.46€10.23On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos...Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move - concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis - and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who... -
Machiavelli's Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World by Harvey C. Mansfield 9781009320122
RRP: €95.20€85.88Machiavelli is said to be a Renaissance thinker, yet in a notable phrase he invented, 'the effectual truth,' he attacked the high-sounding humanism typical of the Renaissance, while mounting a conspiracy against the classical and Christian values of his... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: €15.46€10.09Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived... -
Bill Edgar's Quirky Football Quiz Book by Bill Edgar
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Bill Edgar is simply the best. His quizzes draw upon one of the greatest minds in football. This is a book nobody with a love of the game can afford to miss'MATTHEW SYED'It must be good if it's Bill's book!!'JAMIE CARRAGHER'The stuff he comes up with is... -
Scottish Murders by Judy Hamilton 9781902407838
RRP: €5.36€4.72An anthology of Scotland's worst and most infamous murders, this book contains 22 stories from Scotland's bloodstained past. Dating back to the fifteenth century, we have the story of the gruesome Bean family, who terrorized and cannibalized victims in... -
The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum by Jill Harden
RRP: €10.71€7.33The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural... -
The Waffen SS at Arnhem: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399012942
RRP: €17.84€13.03The 1944 Arnhem airborne operation, immortalized by the film A Bridge Too Far, will forever be remembered as a great British feat of arms. British and Polish paratroopers displayed outstanding courage and tenacity in a desperate last stand situation. And... -
Charles I's Private Life by Mark Turnbull 9781399082907
RRP: €29.75€20.97The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the civil war and his head. But there is more to Charles than the civil war and his death. To fully appreciate the... -
London Transport Buses in the 1960s: A Decade of Change and Transition by Blake, Jim 9781473867857
RRP: €29.75€22.16Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by... -
A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
RRP: €20.22€14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176658Author Madeline LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn by Lauren Mackay 9781350147058
RRP: €15.46€11.65The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: €17.84€13.03The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious... -
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
RRP: €15.46€10.23'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France,... -
Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe by David Green 9780752425283
RRP: €35.70€26.69Sacrifice, like death, is one of the great taboo subjects of modern society. The notion that human sacrifice, murder most horrid and even cannibalism could be considered a most holy act is almost inconceivable. Yet the evidence for human sacrifice in... -
Islington: Britain in Old Photographs by Gavin Smith 9780752449609
RRP: €17.84€13.74Islington retains a distinct personality which dates back to the days when it was a villages in the countryside visited by Londoners for leisure pursuits. This fascinating collection of nearly 200 old photographs of the Borough takes a nostalgic look... -
Shadows in the Steam: The Haunted Railways of Britain by David Brandon
RRP: €15.46€11.45Ghosts traditionally make their presence felt in many ways, from unexplained footfalls and chills to odours and apparitions. This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings across the length and breadth of Britain's... -
Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg by A. M. Glazer 9780198744306
RRP: €56.51€56.50Crystal Clear takes you behind the scenes in the life of one of the most prominent scientists of the twentieth century, William Lawrence Bragg (WLB) - an innovative genius, who together with his father, William Henry Bragg (WHB) founded and developed a... -
A Traveller's History of Venice by Peter Mentzel
RRP: €13.08€11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566117Author Peter MentzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)... -
Victorian Sensation: Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Michael Diamond 9781843310761
RRP: €83.30€80.34'Victorian Sensation' sheds light on the Victorians' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and sex scandals. With a vivid cast of characters, ranging from the serial poisoner William... -
The Cretan War (1645-1671): The Venetian-Ottoman Struggle in the Mediterranean by Bruno Mugnai 9781911628040
RRP: €35.64€24.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628040Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context by Julian Goodare
RRP: €23.79€17.28A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of... -
Around Redcar: Images of England by Sheila Barker 9780752437040
RRP: €17.84€13.74A history of Redcar.Book InformationISBN 9780752437040Author Sheila BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 10mm -
The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France by Shelley Puhak
RRP: €13.08€9.25A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Migrants to Britain c.1250 to present by Martin Spafford
€26.10Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
A History of Central Europe: Nations and States Since 1848 by Robert Austin
RRP: €29.74€26.62This textbook offers a survey of the history of Central Europe since 1848, from the 'Springtime of Nations', through the world wars and communist period, to NATO and EU membership. With an emphasis on nation-building, it gives the reader a better... -
The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
RRP: €20.22€14.90The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg,... -
Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II by Prit Buttar
RRP: €20.22€15.09The Baltic States suffered more than almost any other territory during World War II, caught on the front-line of some of the war's most vicious battles and squeezed between the vast military might of the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. From an... -
The German Occupation of the Channel Islands by Charles Cruickshank
RRP: €17.84€13.74Charles Cruickshank provides a full account of the German invasion, the subsequent landings of various British agents, raids and an attempt to end the occupation using psychological warfare. He also looks at how the islanders and Wehrmacht lived, the... -
Murder in the Graveyard: A Brutal Murder. A Wrongful Conviction. A 27-Year Fight for Justice. by Don Hale
RRP: €11.89€7.90'An Extraordinary story of innocence and persecution, determination and grit ... it had me rattling through the pages' SOPHIE DRAPER A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in... -
The Scottish Castles Story by Marc Alexander
RRP: €11.89€8.98The castle is an evocative structure, no matter its setting, and this is no truer than in Scotland, where the multitude of castles reflect the country's turbulent history: its many conflicts and skirmishes, whether against invaders from the north, the... -
Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic by Gerard Shannon
€21.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558211Author Gerard ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 by George Szirtes
RRP: €13.08€6.49A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling"... -
Foula: Island West of the Sun by Sheila Gear 9780648920489
RRP: €15.41€15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648920489Author Sheila GearFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man by Brigitte Hamann 9781848852778
RRP: €29.75€15.60What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler...