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Graham: The Origins of the Clan Graham and Their Place in History by George Forbes 9781852170912
RRP: €4.75€3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852170912Author George ForbesFormat PaperbackImprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste.Croix 9780715617014
RRP: €45.21€43.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715617014Author G. E. M. De Ste.CroixFormat PaperbackPage Count 746Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
RRP: €17.84€13.03Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister,... -
The Sands of Dunkirk by Richard Collier
RRP: €13.08€9.25Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and James HollandMay 1940: In the face of a... -
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today by David Nirenberg 9780226379852
RRP: €28.56€27.41Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how... -
The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary by Bryan Cartledge
RRP: €26.78€24.89The Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its eventful history to become a... -
Edward II by Seymour Phillips
RRP: €29.75€26.08The latest definitive biography in the acclaimed Yale English Monarchs series Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as... -
Camelot: The epic new novel from the author of Lancelot by Giles Kristian
RRP: €9.51€6.89'So beautiful, so haunting . . . bitingly real . . . Giles has given us a vital, glorious story: rich, rewarding, and utterly revealing of our times' Manda ScottFollowing his acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns... -
Coalition: The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government by David Laws 9781785901904
RRP: €15.46€10.82When David Cameron and Nick Clegg stepped out into the rose garden at No. 10 to launch the first coalition government since the Second World War, some doubted whether the coalition could survive a full term - or even a full year. Five years later, this... -
Scotland Yard's Flying Squad: 100 Years of Crime Fighting by Dick Kirby 9781526752178
RRP: €17.84€13.03Since 1919 Scotland Yard s Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London s streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most sophisticated surveillance and crime-fighting equipment. Between... -
The Deltics and Baby Deltics: A Tale of Success and Failure by Andrew Fowler
€38.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473833913Author Andrew FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 244g -
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism by Geoffrey M. Hodgson 9780691247014
RRP: €41.65€33.01How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world's first capitalist countryModern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the Industrial Revolution, though scholars have long... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: €48.18€35.88Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin... -
Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
RRP: €23.80€15.89'A really important book' RAYNOR WINNFrom relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish,... -
Letchworth Settlement, 1920-2020: A century of creative learning by Kate Thompson
RRP: €11.89€10.61Letchworth Settlement, an independent adult education centre, is one of the treasures of the world's first garden city. Starting life in 1920 as Letchworth Adult Education Settlement, it soon became part of the wider Educational Settlement Association,... -
Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews 9781350384866
RRP: €15.46€11.65The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than to the promotion of Communism. During his war-time... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: €23.76€16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922130Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Tower of London Puzzle Book by Sinclair McKay
RRP: €17.84€11.66If you cracked the GHCQ Puzzle Book and tore through the Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book, you must show off your brainteaser abilities with the newest puzzle book from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers...The Tower of London is one of the... -
The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party by Brian Hanley
RRP: €22.60€16.20The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers'... -
The Greek For Love: Life, Love and Loss in Corfu by James Chatto
RRP: €11.89€8.09The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly blue Greek sea. Instead James Chatto and his wife Wendy... -
Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
RRP: €17.84€13.23A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place... -
A Brief History of the Vikings by Jonathan Clements
RRP: €14.27€4.18'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from... -
1492 by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781408809501
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Fernandez-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded... -
Judges by Andrea Camilleri
RRP: €11.89€8.46Camilleri, best known for his Inspector Montalbano series, presents the charming Judge Surra who moves to a small Sicilian town in the late nineteenth century. He does not quite understand the quirky welcoming gifts from the locals, but nothing stands in... -
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine Di Giovanni 9780375724558
RRP: €22.61€15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724558Author Janine di GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Arthur's Seat by Stuart McHardy
RRP: €9.51€7.07Arthur's Seat is climbed (or walked up and around) by thousands of people each year. The views from the top of the 350-million year old landmark are breathtaking, yet most who tread its rocky paths are unaware of its great mysteries. Where did the name... -
Mary Queen of Scots' Secretary: William Maitland - Politician, Reformer and Conspirator by Robert Stedall 9781526787798
RRP: €29.75€20.97Maitland was the most able politician and diplomat during the lifetime of Mary Queen of Scots. It was he who master-minded the Scottish Reformation by breaking the 'Auld Alliance' with France, which presaged Scotland's lasting union with England. ... -
The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical Guide by Martin Winstone 9781350332027
RRP: €29.74€24.56The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Second World War - was a crime of unprecedented and unparalleled proportions, perpetrated in innumerable locations across... -
The Medieval Housewife: & Other Women of the Middle Ages by Toni Mount
RRP: €19.03€12.91Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this... -
Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again by Marc Stears
RRP: €42.78€34.46From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and must learn to find it again.This is an age of polarization. It's us vs. them. The battle lines are clear, and... -
Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden by Laura Mayer
RRP: €10.70€8.28The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the... -
Medieval Wall Paintings in English and Welsh Churches by Roger Rosewell
RRP: €35.69€30.02The first major illustrated study of this unique medieval art form for almost half a century, surveying the images and iconography that made the medieval church a riot of colour. Highly Commended in the Best Archaeological Book category of the 2008... -
Heathrow Airport: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Alan Gallop 9781526759184
RRP: €29.75€21.44Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom's largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over 100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK's... -
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith 9781851245987
RRP: €35.70€26.97In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery to his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Paul's a book that had been long in the making. Master William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies was the first collected... -
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland by Lindy Brady
RRP: €89.25€80.61The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these... -
Access to History: Britain 1900-57 Second Edition by Michael Lynch
€30.48Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
RRP: €15.46€13.64The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 * A Kirkus... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into... -
The Midwife by Susan Cohen
RRP: €9.51€7.44The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol. Though the role of midwife has existed since time immemorial, it is only since the Victorian era that it has been a recognised and regulated... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781442253322
RRP: €35.70€27.41When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly...