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Napoleon: v. 1: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 by Philip Dwyer 9780747566779
RRP: £18.99£13.61Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his identity was constantly shifting, his character ambiguous and his intentions often ill-defined. He... -
Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £8.99£6.08In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed emigration and a decline in living standards for the... -
The Medieval Archer by Jim Bradbury 9780851156750
RRP: £24.99£15.94It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...also...discusses the changing role of the archer in medieval society. SIR STEVEN RUNCIMAN This book traces the history of the archer in the medieval period,... -
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Ruger 9780199672462
RRP: £28.99£21.20On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. ... -
Hemel Hempstead by Eve Davis 9780752401676
RRP: £14.99£11.55This excellent collection of over 400 old photographs of Hemel Hempstead was originally published as two volumes in the popular Archive Photographs Series and is now available bound as a single volume. The fascinating sequence of photographs forms an... -
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie Kreiner 9781324094449
RRP: £14.99£12.21Although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God-to continuously... -
British Destroyers 1939-45: Wartime-built classes by Angus Konstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by Germany and Japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful Tribal-class. These were... -
Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl MarxThe cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth... -
Spain by Robert Goodwin
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from great soldiers like the Duke... -
East London Photo Stories by Rachel Segal Hamilton 9781910566428
RRP: £19.95£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910566428Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini PressWeight(grams) 663g -
Black Friday: The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster of 1881 by Peter Aitchison 9781912476237
RRP: £9.99£6.99Black Friday is the astonishing true story of a coastal community that lost 189 men in a single afternoon. Britain's worst fishing disaster decimated the coastal community of Eyemouth, yet is an almost forgotten part of the past. One hundred and... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Purple, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780785265061
RRP: £30.00£20.53This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell 9781785907937
RRP: £25.00£17.84The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of our fond nostalgia for Britain's role in the Second World War, nestling in our imagination next to images of evacuees clutching teddy bears, and milkmen picking their way through bomb rubble... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
RRP: £25.00£23.78The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks... -
Dorset Folk Tales by Tim Laycock 9780752466361
RRP: £12.99£9.62The spectacular and varied landscape of Dorset, with its giants, hill forts, Jurassic coast and ancient buildings is the source and inspiration for many curious stories that have been passed down in families and village communities for generations. This... -
Haunted Newcastle by Darren W. Ritson 9780752448800
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating book contains over forty-five spine-chilling accounts from in and around central Newcastle. Take a tour of this ancient city and discover poltergeists, apparitions, curses, hauntings and even the ghost of a living person! From the... -
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £10.99£7.25By turns harrowing and inspiring, "Prague Winter" is Madeleine Albright's account of her early life from 1937 to 1948, a dozen years that witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, World War II, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of... -
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare by Sean McGlynn
RRP: £12.99£8.60A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would... -
The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire by Barrie Trinder 9780750967877
RRP: £25.00£18.94The first edition (1973) was acclaimed and it firmly established the Shropshire Coalfield as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. After several reprints a new edition appeared in 1981, but since then there has been much further research, and... -
Wellington and the Lines of Torres Vedras: The Defence of Lisbon During the Peninsular War, 1807-1814 by Mark S. Thompson 9781914059858
RRP: £25.00£20.92In October 1810, the Third French invasion of Portugal under Marechal Massena arrived at the Lines of Torres Vedras and his triumphal march into Lisbon came to an abrupt halt. Five months later a thoroughly demoralised and defeated French army retreated... -
Procession by Jack Cooke
RRP: £14.99£10.95A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so famous -... -
Medieval Eastern Europe, 500-1300: A Reader by Florin Curta 9781487544904
RRP: £35.00£30.74Filling a major gap in medieval studies, Medieval Eastern Europe is the first collection of primary sources in English translation covering the history of the whole eastern region of the European continent between 500 and 1300. Florin Curta, a leading... -
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (2): Republican Forces by Alejandro De Quesada
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Spanish Civil War was the curtainraiser to World War II and involved a complex collection of forces, particularly on the Republican side. This title illustrates how diverse the Republican forces were, drawn from loyal elements of the Spanish army... -
Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England by Christina J Faraday
RRP: £45.00£37.63A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed "lively." This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture-from portraits to funeral monuments, book... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
£12.30Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a divided... -
Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture by Tessa Murdoch
RRP: £40.00£32.20This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. ... -
Calton Hill: Journeys and Evocations by Stuart McHardy 9781908373854
RRP: £7.99£5.94Lord Cockburn, Victorian defender of Edinburgh's beauties, describes Calton Hill as 'the Glory of Edinburgh'. 'It presents us,' enthused Cockburn, 'with the finest prospects both of its vicinity and the city... it is adorned by beautiful buildings... -
On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain by Patrick Wright
RRP: £19.99£15.02The hulk of Henry VIII's flagship is raised from the seabed in an operation that captures the mind of the nation. The leader of the Labour party wears an informal coat at the Cenotaph and provokes a national scandal. An elderly lady whose ancient house... -
Britain's Forgotten Serial Killer: The Terror of the Axeman by Lucas, John 9781526748843
RRP: £14.99£10.95Serial killer Patrick Mackay was dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain when he appeared in court in 1975 charged with three killings, including the axe murder of a priest. The Nazi-obsessed alcoholic had stalked the upmarket streets of West London... -
Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society by Olivia Fryman
RRP: £55.00£48.09Go behind the scenes of generations of the British royal family, exploring both the glamour and domestic life inside the spectacular 300-year-old Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is renowned for its architecture, splendid interiors, internationally... -
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe by Robert Bartlett 9781108490672
RRP: £30.99£22.83Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births,... -
The British Empire: How it was built - and how it fell by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187851Author Piers BrendonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300 by Catherine Hanley 9780300272970
RRP: £12.99£11.46An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty... -
Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939 by James P. Levy 9780742545380
RRP: £30.00£26.68Standing against conventional wisdom, historian James Levy reevaluates Britain's twin policies of appeasement and rearmament in the late 1930s. By carefully examining the political and economic environment of the times, Levy argues that Neville... -
Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports by Nigel West 9781803994826
RRP: £18.99£14.32The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it.At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its... -
The Secret History of Here: A Year in the Valley by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £20.00£13.10The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since pre-historic times. The fields have turned up ancient arrow heads, stone spindles,... -
Drawing on Archaeology: Bringing History to Life by Victor Ambrus
RRP: £20.00£15.04How does excavation enable the archaeologist to reconstruct the past? Victor Ambrus, who has been the Channel 4 Time Team artist since the programme's inception in 1994, has selected some of the key excavations from the many series to show how it has... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell
RRP: £23.49£17.61The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views... -
Latvia: A Short History by Mara Kalnins
RRP: £22.00£19.52The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust... -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich 9780231133814
RRP: £22.00£17.76For five years during the Second World War, the Allies launched a trial and error bombing campaign against Germany's historical city landscape. Peaking in the war's final three months, it was the first air attack of its kind. Civilian dwellings were...