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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Demick, Barbara 9780812982763
RRP: £20.00£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982763Author Barbara DemickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement by G. C. Peden
RRP: £29.99£26.34Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for... -
Palace of Industry, 1851: A Study of the Great Exhibition and its Fruits by C. R. Fay 9780521166232
RRP: £30.99£10.47Originally published in 1951, this volume was created to mark the centenary of The Great Exhibition, an event which came to epitomise the Victorian age through its celebration of British manufacturing and cultural achievements. Through a highly readable... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309046
RRP: £10.99£6.48SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
The Diary of John Evelyn by John Eve
RRP: £18.99£14.61Sometimes overshadowed by his friend and contemporary, Samuel Pepys, Evelyn is the other great English diarist. He was a scholar, a scientific amateur, a garden designer and architect, and a founder member of the Royal Society who published a magisterial... -
Kim: A biography of MG founder Cecil Kimber by John Pressnell 9781956309119
RRP: £115.00£100.34MG, the world's most-loved make of sports car, was created in the 1920s by Cecil Kimber - invariably known as Kim. Rising above disability, with his energy, enthusiasm and vision Kimber became a leading figure in the British motor industry. Starting out... -
Tudor Wales: Full-Colour Guide to the Many Places in Wales Associated with This Famous Dynasty by Nathen Amin
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Tudors are one of history's most infamous families and the era over which they reigned still captures the public's interest without rival. 'Tudor England' in itself has become a well known phrase that covers many aspects of the era, particularly... -
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 by Rory Muir
RRP: £18.99£17.18A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against... -
Soldier 'I': the Story of an SAS Hero: From Mirbat to the Iranian Embassy Siege and Beyond by Pete Winner
RRP: £10.99£7.77The true story of a legendary SAS soldier who participated in the battle of Mirbat and assaulted the Iranian Embassy to free the hostages held within. No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background. If you... -
Kings & Queens of Ancient Britain by Charles Phillips
RRP: £7.99£5.79Britain's royal history brought to life with 200 contemporary and historical illustrations, maps, shields and comprehensive genealogical tables. It includes the story of King Arthur, why William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings, how Robert the... -
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction by Rab Houston
RRP: £8.99£6.45Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was... -
St George, Redfield and Whitehall: Images of England by David Cheesley 9780752422206
RRP: £12.99£9.62In this intriguing selection of archive images the areas of St George, Redfield and Whitehall have been evocatively recreated using over 200 photographs, postcards and engravings which illustrate the diverse history of this east Bristol district. From... -
Highgate: Britain in Old Photographs by Paul Feeney
RRP: £15.99£12.25Illustrated with 200 archive photographs, postcards and other printed ephemera, many previously unpublished, Highgate guides the reader on a circular journey around the area, taking in street scenes, buildings, monuments and public spaces, including... -
Ireland's War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA's Guerrilla Campaign by Lorcan Collins
RRP: £14.99£11.66An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British... -
A Mother's Courage: How I survived the Holocaust - a remarkable story of bravery, kindness and hope by Malka Levine 9781035025008
RRP: £20.00£13.10'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous memoir . . . a testament to [Malka's] skill and determination' - DAME MAUREEN LIPMANA Mother's Courage is... -
It Happened in Shropshire by Bob Burrows
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122195Author Bob BurrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 375g -
The First National Museum: Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth-century by Sherra Murphy 9781782054559
RRP: £35.00£28.82Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us what the museum looked like in its heyday, this book is... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013183
RRP: £20.00£13.35A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the... -
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith by James H. Billington
RRP: £44.99£40.28This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will... -
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197036Author Mark BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £11.99£8.00BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks,... -
German Naval Camouflage Volume II: 1942 - 1945 by Eric Leon 9781848322233
RRP: £35.00£24.69This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012 the 1939-1941 volume was quickly recognised by warship enthusiasts and modelmakers as a... -
Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages by Frances F. Beer
RRP: £19.99£16.97Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material. `A wholly feminine voice within Catholicism-they express the inexpressible better than any amount of rational thinking about God.' THE... -
Growing Up in Wartime Uxbridge by Stephen Skinner 9780752445434
RRP: £12.99£9.62From a child's viewpoint, the pre-war years of the 1930s were full of carefree, halcyon days when the sun always used to shine; but for many people the 1930s were, regrettably, quite the opposite. In this book all aspects from pre-war to post-war... -
Leitrim Observed: A Biography of John McGahern by Aubrey Malone
£20.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus Publishing -
The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages by Marilyn Dunn 9781405106412
RRP: £33.95£29.98The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.Gives particular... -
Uplands and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library) by Ian Newton 9780008298500
RRP: £65.00£43.30Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds. The uplands of Britain are unique landscapes created by grazing animals, primarily livestock... -
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten 9780062790767
RRP: £22.99£16.43May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe by JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: £12.99£8.60'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led... -
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.99£8.60In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a... -
Evensong: Lives, finds and reflections on the Church in England by Richard Morris
RRP: £25.00£18.02Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of 'church' is its... -
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the... -
Highlander's Captive by Mariah Stone 9789083084206
RRP: £14.99£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083084206Author Mariah StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Stone PublishingPublisher Stone PublishingWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Declaration of Arbroath by Tom Turpie
RRP: £4.99£3.95A pocketbook reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with historical analysis by Tom Turpie to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. The document is a declaration of Scottish independence as a sovereign state in 1320,... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak 9780198755357
RRP: £28.99£20.68When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: £22.50£21.68An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Sir Barry Cunliffe
£25.54A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European... -
The Heretic's Mark by S. W. Perry
RRP: £14.99£13.85'Historical fiction at its most sumptuous' Rory Clements'S. J. Parris fans will be pleased' Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling, CWA Historical Dagger Award-nominated author of The Angel's Mark comes a gripping and atmospheric new mystery . . ... -
Scott of the Antarctic: We Shall Die Like Gentlemen by Sue Blackhall 9781526796653
RRP: £12.99£9.09Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only... -
AEthelred: The Unready by Levi Roach
RRP: £14.99£13.43An imaginative reassessment of AEthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king AEthelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and...