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The Wrench by Primo Levi
RRP: $19.48$13.26'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us... -
Cathedrals of Britain by David Pepin
RRP: $31.18$26.77Cathedrals are awe-inspiring buildings. Most are grand medieval structures, while others appear simple and unpretentious - yet all were designed to reflect the glory of God and have a profound impact on us. As trailblazers of architectural development,... -
Hidden Britain: Secret Tunnels, Lost Chambers and Unknown Passageways by Alvin Nicholas
RRP: $31.18$23.89Britain's history is rich in mystery and scandal, and our ancient buildings hide the fascinating stories. Hidden Britain takes you backstage at some of our country's most intriguing locations, into secret tunnels, down concealed passageways and behind... -
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring 9781780278254
RRP: $25.33$16.69One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friends' seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: $48.65$45.61A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Cvil War by Judith Keene 9781852855932
RRP: $116.98$110.21One of the enduring myths of the Franco state was that the Nationalist forces that won the Civil War consisted of patriotic Spaniards while the Republic was defended by a rag tag army of foreign 'reds.' During the Spanish Civil War, however, many groups... -
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: $25.33$17.73Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in... -
Badges and Uniforms of the Royal Air Force by Malcolm Hobart 9781848848948
RRP: $29.23$21.35Throughout the relatively short yet highly distinguished history of the Royal Air Force there has been a tendency for the men and women of the Service to be overshadowed by the glamour of the aircraft. Nonetheless it is surprising that there has never... -
Ruby McBride by Freda Lightfoot
RRP: $17.53$11.35Where there's a rulebook, there's a rebel...Ruby McBride has always been on the wrong side of authority. The grand opening of the Manchester Ship Canal is set to be a day of unfettered festivity for Ruby and her younger sister and brother. Even Queen... -
Now You Know by Michael Frayn
RRP: $17.53$11.86Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Got a spot of form, eye for the ladies, a real rough diamond some might say. Not without his virtues, though, as his campaign for open government shows. No secrets, that's Terry's secret. Allied to charm, that is, of course... -
Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany by Frank McDonough 9780521003582
RRP: $25.84$23.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Colours of the Inferno by Pierre Lemaitre
RRP: $37.03$25.64"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen KingThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars... -
Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism by Marisa McGlinchey
RRP: $48.75$42.96This book discusses the development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups... -
Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience by Barbara Harvey 9780198204312
RRP: $95.53$95.18This is an authoritative account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's greatest monasteries. It is also a wide-ranging exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century by a... -
Bede: On Genesis by Bede
RRP: $58.48$53.39This is the first English translation of the Venerable Bede's commentary on the book of Genesis. Dealing as it does with the biblical account of the creation of the world and of mankind, and of mankind's fall from grace and exile into the life of time,... -
Leigh-on-Sea: A History by Judith Williams 9781860776595
RRP: $29.23$22.52Leigh-on-Sea was described in 1565 as 'a very proper town, well-furnished with good mariners, where commonly tall ships do ride'; during its heyday it had close associations with the Royal Navy. Following the decline of shipbuilding the town became known... -
Diana: Death of a Goddess by David Cohen
RRP: $31.18$22.6400.23 a.m. August 31st 1997. The Mercedes driven by Henri Paul in which Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and Trevor Rees-Jones were travelling crashes into a pillar in the Alma tunnel in the centre of Paris, killing Paul, Dodi and Diana and seriously... -
The SAS in Occupied France: 2 SAS Operations, June to October 1944 by Gavin Mortimer 9781526769626
RRP: $48.75$35.14In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even... -
Cornish Folk Tales of Place: Traditional Stories from North and East Cornwall by Anna Chorlton
RRP: $25.33$18.76Cornwall's rugged coast is etched with stories. Here you'll find tales of powerful mermaids, spiteful witches, crafty smugglers and woeful ghosts. Up on the moors are mischievous creatures, huge giants and elusive beasts. Let the piskeys lead you astray... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford
RRP: $33.13$29.06From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
Crow Court by Andy Charman 9781800180901
RRP: $19.48$13.36LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022 Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster-a belligerent man with a... -
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
RRP: $21.43$16.87Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond. 'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' Sunday Times'A... -
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $48.75$41.57A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and... -
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: $39.00$30.11In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history and literature to reinvent her life and... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: $45.81$38.94Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $29.23$19.11Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old... -
Middlesbrough at War 1939 45 by Armstrong, Craig 9781526704764
RRP: $29.23$17.73Middlesbrough was of vital importance to Britain's war effort. The town, and its surrounding area, contained a number of vital industries including shipbuilding, chemicals, iron, steel and other metals, and engineering, as well as a joinery firm that... -
Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch
RRP: $25.33$22.35Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $46.78$43.62'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s by Joan Lock
RRP: $17.53$12.09Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the... -
The Child from Nowhere by Freda Lightfoot
RRP: $19.48$12.50As the Great War looms, will the women of Kendal rise to meet the challenge?After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O'Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make.Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums,... -
Religious Orders Vol 2 by David Knowles 9780521295673
RRP: $60.43$55.93This book covers a period (1336-1485) neglected by historians, when many features of the modern world were germinating under the surface of medieval institutions: the age of Chaucer, Langland, Bradwardine and Wyclif, of the new Nominalism and the... -
Crosby, Seaforth and Waterloo: The Second Selection: Images of England by Tom Heath
RRP: $25.33$18.76Crosby's own local newspaper, the Crosby Herald, publishes a regular 'Memories' column that features stories and photographs from the area's past. It is a popular column and made more so because of the endless supply of old photographs provided for it by... -
Origins of the French Revolution by Professor William Doyle
RRP: $101.40$94.85First published in 1980, this book rapidly established itself as the indispensable guide to what brought about the French Revolution, and to the debates of historians about the issue. It combined a full critical account of recent controversies with a... -
An Uprooted Community: A history of Epynt by Herbert Hughes 9781800994027
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994027Author Herbert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Haunted Exeter by Susan Gardner 9780752456720
RRP: $25.33$18.76Carriages pulled by headless horses, a ghostly Viking longship poised to reinvade, modern-day people transported momentarily back to the brutal Middle Ages and spooky creatures so horrible that catching sight of them could kill - no wonder Exeter is... -
Old Rutherglen by Rhona Wilson 9781872074726
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074726Author Rhona WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 239mm * 6mm -
The Vikings by Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide
RRP: $31.10$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401896Author Saebjorg Walaker NordeideFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Dr. Lisa Pine
RRP: $48.73$45.36Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are... -
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia 9780715653050
RRP: $33.13$23.54Winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History (American Historical Association). Award-winning historian Priya Satia presents a new history of the Industrial Revolution that positions war and the gun trade squarely at the heart of the rapid...