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The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: £24.95£20.29The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,... -
The Rise of the Nazis by Conan Fischer 9780719060670
RRP: £19.99£17.82How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated and important discoveries continue to challenge long standing assumptions. Beginmning with an overview of the historical context within which Nazism... -
Berwick Upon Tweed: History & Guide by Jim Walker 9780752422626
RRP: £25.00£18.54A history of Berwick upon TweedBook InformationISBN 9780752422626Author Jim WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Ah Couldnae Believe Ma Ears!: Classic Overheard Conversations by Allan Morrison
RRP: £10.99£7.40'She always had high hopes for him. Did he manage to graduate after his resits?''Him?! He's thick. Would be as useless as a lifeguard in a carwash.'This is a classic collection of the best humour that Scotland has to offer - off-the-cuff and straight... -
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation by Jonathan Connolly 9780226833644
RRP: £26.00£24.85A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture’s normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the normalization of indenture from its controversial beginnings to... -
E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester by Catherine Pearson
RRP: £14.99£11.55E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts... -
A Nation is Born by Michael B. Barry 9780717198511
RRP: £25.99£18.28A Nation Is Born celebrates a formative period in the history of the Irish state: the fifteen years during which we emerged from the rubble of wars and violence and set up as a fledgling country while establishing a diplomatic presence on the world stage... -
The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople by Ernle Bradford 9781497637887
RRP: £14.95£11.66An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae. At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital... -
Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder 9780300246544
RRP: £45.00£40.07Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez is the first archival... -
Women All on Fire: The Women of the English Civil War by Alison Plowden
RRP: £10.99£8.25Using personal accounts from both Royalist and Parliamentarian supporters to reveal the untold story of the women of the English Civil War, Alison Plowden illustrates how the conflict affected the lives of women and how they coped with unfamiliar... -
Under Our Skin by Jethro Soutar 9781951213527
RRP: £14.00£9.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press -
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber 9780199233205
RRP: £22.49£17.17Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a... -
Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
RRP: £12.99£8.56Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence. From his emergence in the... -
Old English Medical Remedies: Mandrake, Wormwood and Raven's Eye by Sinead Spearing 9781526711700
RRP: £19.99£14.28In 9th century England Bishop Alfeah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald's book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA... -
Dundee Worthies: Reminiscences, Games & Amusements by George M. Martin
£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861155Author George M. MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press Ltd -
Annandale: Britain in Old Photographs by David Carroll 9780752450148
RRP: £12.99£9.62Coursing down from the Devil's Beef Tub, the River Annan meanders through undulating agricultural land for 30 miles or so, before issuing into the Solway Firth. Stretching from the once-famous spa resort of Moffat in the north to Annan in the south,... -
Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust by Mala Kacenberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'It's an account of astounding courage and... -
The Williamite Wars in Ireland by John Childs 9781847251640
£39.33This title provides an authoritative account of the wars between Britain and Ireland in the 17th century.William III's defeat of James II's Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690 ended the Stuart dynasty's last hope of survival. It has... -
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton 9781848685277
RRP: £11.99£7.86The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir. Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant,... -
War Hammers I: The Story of West Ham United during the First World War by Brian Belton
RRP: £9.99£7.55This book tells the fascinating story of West Ham United Football Club during the First World War, charting the relationship between war and football by following the pursuits of West Ham from 1913/14 to 1918/19. In many ways, it was their success in... -
Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520 by Christopher Dyer 9780300101911
RRP: £17.99£15.79Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian... -
Scapa Flow: The Defences of Britain's Great Fleet Anchorage 1914-45 by Angus Konstam 9781846033667
£11.75A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's main fleet anchorage during World Wars I and II. In 1914 and again in 1939, the British began building a comprehensive defensive network by fortifying the... -
Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes: Masters and Servants in the Golden Age by Michael Paterson 9781780336893
£12.73The Victorian and Edwardian eras in the run-up to 1914 marked the golden age of the English country house, when opulence and formality attained a level that would never be matched again. The ease of these perfect settings for flirtation and relaxation... -
The Annual Hop London to Kent by Hilary Heffernan
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs illustrates, in heart warming detail, the traditional working holiday of London EastEnders which was known, affectionately, as the 'Annual Hop'. As a welcome escape from the poor working and living... -
The A-Z of Curious Wales: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Mark Rees 9780750990073
RRP: £14.99£11.55Wales' history is packed with peculiar customs and curious characters. Here you will discover alien landscapes, ancient druids and a Victorian ghost hunter. Find out why revellers would carry a decorated horse's skull on a pole door to door at... -
Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics: A Sideways Look at Twentieth-Century London by Rob Baker
RRP: £16.99£11.47"I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be." An Ideal Husband, OSCAR WILDE Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics is based on the... -
The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond: A New History of the English Province of the Friars Preachers by Richard Finn
RRP: £90.00£81.43The history of the Dominicans in the British Isles is a rich and fascinating one. Eight centuries have passed since the Friars Preachers landed on England's shores. Yet no book charting the history of the English Province has appeared for close on a... -
Shropshire Folk Tales by Amy Douglas 9780752451558
RRP: £12.99£9.62In places, Shropshire has traditional patchwork fields and hedgerows; in others, small villages and market towns with black and white half-timbered buildings. But it also has places that are still wild - hills where heather and bracken cling to the rocks... -
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
RRP: £35.95£29.36Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant... -
Royal Heirs: Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Frank Lorenz Muller
RRP: £29.99£26.34Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic change and revolutionary upheaval, Europe's monarchies experienced an unexpected late flowering. Royal Heirs focuses on the roles and personalities of the... -
Hitler's Wolfsschanze: The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front - An Illustrated Guide by John Grehan
RRP: £25.00£18.62Set deep in the heart of the Masurian woods of northern Poland, in what was formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers and shelters that once constituted Hitler's headquarters - the Wolfsschanze or Wolf's Lair - for Germany's attack... -
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
£16.18Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a ... -
Dracula's Wars: Vlad the Impaler and his Rivals by James Waterson 9780750992404
RRP: £12.99£9.62The real Dracula was far from Bram Stoker's well-mannered aristocrat. Better known as Vlad the Impaler, he was named for his favoured execution method: running a spear through his victim's lower body, then standing them upright so it skewered their vital... -
The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett
RRP: £19.99£16.25How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book... -
The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640-1910 by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: £25.00£18.62For 270 years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbours. They ruled... -
Fighting Through to Anzio: The Gordon Highlanders in the Second World War (6th Battalion and 1st London Scottish) by Stewart Mitchell 9781399058216
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the inspiring story of two Gordon Highlanders Territorial Army battalions which saw action in some of the Second World War’s fiercest battles. After evacuation from Dunkirk, 6th Gordons fought in Tunisia in 1943, leading to the German surrender... -
A Missed Murder by Michael Jecks
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780295893Author Michael JecksFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Georgian Recipes and Remedies: A Country Lady's Household Handbook by Michael J Rochford 9781526727299
RRP: £15.99£11.61Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they grow' and make Sir Theodore Colladon's Peace Flower Syrup. Feast on Lady St Quintin's Dutch Pudding and Mrs... -
Richard I by John Gillingham 9780300094046
RRP: £25.00£21.32Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart, John Gillingham scrutinizes... -
Pedestal: The Convoy That Saved Malta by Peter C. Smith 9780907579199
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579199Author Peter SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing