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Stoke City Match of My Life: Sixteen Stars Relive Their Greatest Games by David Lee
RRP: $19.48$7.96Sixteen Stoke City legends tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Potters fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing their hearts out for the... -
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen
RRP: $54.60$53.41A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums-it's an exploration of... -
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes
RRP: $21.43$15.15WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voices and stories of those who were there.'Compelling, suspenseful and beautifully done' Anna Funder, author... -
A Short History of the Etruscans by Corinna Riva 9781780766157
RRP: $29.23$27.85Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left no textual sources to posterity. The only direct... -
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era by Andrew Scull
RRP: $60.45$55.30The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection... -
The Grass Roots of English History: Local Societies in England before the Industrial Revolution by David Hey
$58.81In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War. Core groups of families that remained rooted in these 'countries', often... -
Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany by Dagmar Herzog
RRP: $68.25$56.04What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics? Were they repressive for everyone, or were some... -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: $25.33$22.35A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences-traffic jams, noisy neighbors,... -
Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People's Princess by Brian Hoey
RRP: $25.33$16.83Fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this special commemorative book by royal biographer Brian Hoey - who had the privilege of meeting Diana on several occasions - pays tribute to the life of this remarkable young woman. Diana, Princess of... -
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography by Stanley G. Payne 9780299302108
RRP: $68.15$65.56General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all... -
Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
RRP: $33.13$23.95At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been... -
Reading the Peak District Landscape by John Barnatt 9781848023796
RRP: $62.40$58.75The Peak District is a vital place with landscapes of great beauty from wild moorlands to walled fields around picturesque villages. There are few places in the world where such a rich history is visible in one relatively small but varied landscape. ... -
Murder Wears a Cowl (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 6): A gripping medieval mystery of murder and religion by Paul Doherty
RRP: $19.48$13.26In early 1302 a violent serial killer lurks in the city of London, slitting the throats of prostitutes.And when Lady Somerville, one of the Sisters of St Martha, is murdered in the same barbaric fashion, her death is closely followed by that of Father... -
British Rail Shunters: From Corporate Blue to Sectorisation by Simon Bendall 9781802824841
RRP: $33.13$23.95By the beginning of the 1980s, British Rail's fleet of diesel shunters was in decline, this being caused by a rapid loss of freight traffic across the country as well as the modernisation of passenger train operations, both resulting in a reduced need... -
The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen by Alan Walker 9780801440762
RRP: $46.78$37.26"If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite Wahnfried, the home of his daughter Cosima and his... -
The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: $33.13$31.12An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a... -
Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 by John Arch Getty 9780521335706
RRP: $99.43$83.89This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the... -
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam
RRP: $25.33$16.77In 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the cover of World War I, through the secret organisation of unofficial gangs of Kurds, released prisoners, German officers and... -
Hitler by Wyndham Lewis 9781953730206
$35.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730206Author Wyndham LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Madeleine by Euan Cameron 9780857058607
RRP: $19.48$13.26"Immersive, nuanced, impeccably researched" IAN RANKIN"Beautifully written and moving" ALLAN MASSIE"Poignant, nostalgic and redolent of the smell of France" SIMON BRETTFamily history has always been a mystery to Will Latymer. His father flatly refused to... -
People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker by Mary Fulbrook 9780300144246
RRP: $54.60$46.16An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of... -
By Moonlight and Spirit Flight by Michael Howard 9781945147340
RRP: $29.15$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945147340Author Michael HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Three Hands PressPublisher Three Hands PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Northumbria: The Lost Kingdom by Paul Gething 9780752459707
RRP: $48.75$36.15Northumbria was one of the great kingdoms of Britain in the Dark Ages, enduring longer than the Roman Empire. Yet it has been all but forgotten. This book puts Northumbria back in its rightful place, at the heart of British history. From the impregnable... -
A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State by David Potter
$78.96A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes 9780140081794
RRP: $19.48$13.86George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an... -
Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man by Matthew Engel
RRP: $21.43$15.15England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann 9780674743922
RRP: $66.20$58.15A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace.Metternich has a... -
The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
RRP: $21.43$15.15NUMBER ONE EVENING STANDARD BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror' Daily TelegraphSpying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone... -
A Paris Secret by Caroline Montague
RRP: $17.53$12.09A sweeping tale of ambition and passion in the shattered world of post-war Paris - perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Kate Furnivall1952. In the fragile atmosphere of post-war Paris, Sophie Bernot is training as a heart surgeon. A young woman in a... -
The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims by Robert Hume 9781526738608
RRP: $38.98$27.85Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognisable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians... -
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment by Judith P. Zinsser
RRP: $36.76$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112686Author Judith P. ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
St George (new Edition) by Giles Morgan 9781843449652
RRP: $13.63$4.41St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around the third century AD. But England is only one country... -
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945 by Robin Prior
RRP: $68.25$57.66A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780241573570
RRP: $78.00$58.48Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's biography... -
Main Street: Heart of Wexford by Nicky Rossiter 9780750987547
RRP: $33.13$25.23Wexford is one of the few towns or cities in Ireland where Main Street is still the main retail and commercial street of the town. In Dublin this honour goes to O'Connell and Grafton Street; in Cork it is Patrick Street; but in Wexford, Main Street is... -
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220 by Denis Twitchett 9780521243278
RRP: $259.35$224.29This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major... -
After The Berlin Wall: Putting Two Germanys Back Together Again by Christopher Hilton 9780750992138
RRP: $25.33$19.54On 7 May 1945, Grand Admiral Donitz, named in Hitler's will as head of state, authorised the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies on the following day. World War II in Europe was at an end. But many of the German people would... -
Richard III: The Maligned King by Annette Carson 9781803991832
RRP: $29.23$22.52Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today. Yet history concentrates on the fictional hunchback as depicted by Shakespeare: the wicked uncle who stole the throne and killed his nephews in the... -
Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend by Joseph P. Farrell
RRP: $33.13$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931882392Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
A History of Lancaster Castle by Colin Penny
RRP: $19.48$13.86LANCASTER CASTLE is one of Britain's major historic monuments. For over 900 years it has dominated the hilltop looking out over the river Lune and the city of Lancaster. Owned by Her Majesty the Queen in her role as Duke of Lancaster, the castle has a...