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Around Fareham Past & Present: Britain In Old Photographs by Timothy Alletson Saunders
RRP: $29.23$16.54The Borough of Fareham extends from the River Hamble in the west to Portsmouth Harbour in the east, and is a patchwork of ancient communities, each a rich blend of the old and the new. In Around Fareham Past & Present Tim Alletson Saunders explores... -
Crosby, Seaforth and Waterloo by Tom Heath 9780752421544
RRP: $25.33$18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752421544Author Tom HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Exploring the World of the Vikings by Richard Hall
RRP: $33.05$23.22This authoritative survey of Viking history and culture, now available in paperback, tells the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the first millennium ad, through the incredible period of raiding, trading and settling... -
Portugal: A Traveller`s History by Harold V. Livermore
RRP: $48.75$40.79An historical guide to Portugal which both describes and accounts for what the visitor might see and experience in this often-spellbinding country. Portugal, the 'ancient ally', is a country easily accessible, with an enviable climate, welcoming... -
Meteor Boys: True Tales from UK Operators of Britain's First Jet Fighter - From 1944 to Date by Steve Bond
RRP: $25.33$17.73Grub Street is proud to present Meteor Boys, the latest title in its ever-popular Boys series. As Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor has had a remarkably varied and lengthy life. But whilst many books have focused on its development and... -
D-Day Then and Now: v. 1 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913846
RRP: $58.40$48.44'People of Western Europe. A landing was made this morning on the coast of France...' With these simple - yet memorable - words, General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, announced to the world on June 6, 1944 that the... -
The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi by Gary Bruce 9780195392050
RRP: $99.45$82.06Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and... -
Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths by Miles Russell
RRP: $25.33$16.54Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD. The... -
Great Western Saint Class Locomotives by Laurence Waters
RRP: $48.75$36.31Churchward's 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used... -
An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos by Michael Carroll 9781845118228
RRP: $33.13$25.80Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as 'the gates of the wind'. It was to this unspoilt archipelago that Michael Carroll sailed Astarte, a boat of sleek mahogany with... -
Cardinal Wolsey: For King and Country by Roberts, Phil 9781399089029
RRP: $39.00$27.87The Wolsey's of Suffolk date to Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest notice of a Wolsey as inhabitant of Ipswich is Thomas Wolsey's father, Robert. He was a successful small businessman and married a Joan Daundy. Thomas was probably born in 1471 in an Inn and... -
Political Purgatory: The Battle to Save Stormont and the Play for a New Ireland by Brian Rowan
RRP: $62.30$30.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373817Author Brian RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford
RRP: $33.13$23.95Sarah Bradford's Lucrezia Bogia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy is the first biography of Lucrezia Borgia for over sixty years.Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through... -
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England by Dr Michael Livingston 9781472849373
RRP: $39.00$32.66'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better guide.' BERNARD CORNWELL Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On... -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence by Luke O'Neill
RRP: $54.58$40.19Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O'Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Luke's insatiable... -
Charles the Bold - The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy by Richard Vaughan 9780851159188
RRP: $58.48$44.87Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relationship with his subjects and his neighbours. It describes and... -
Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century - Discipline, Tactics, and Technology by Kelly DeVries 9780851155715
RRP: $48.73$34.34His detailed analysis of battles provides an important reassessment of the way in which infantry and dismounted cavalry achieved such striking successes. HISTORY This remarkable study confirms [DeVries's] emergence as one of the major scholars of his... -
Queens of Georgian Britian by Catherine Curzon
RRP: $38.98$28.63Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for over a century. Hailing from Germany, these occasionally mad, bad and infamous sovereigns presided over a land in turmoil. Yet what of the... -
Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy by Professor Richard Schoch 9781350409354
RRP: $48.75$36.82In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not... -
The Wolf Children by Cay Rademacher
RRP: $21.43$14.43Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.Hamburg, 1948It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under... -
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 by Professor A. R. Disney
RRP: $56.53$44.25The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on... -
Butetown and Cardiff Docks by Brian Lee 9780752415826
RRP: $29.23$22.52This fascinating collection of 200 photographs tells the story of Cardiff's disappearing docklands, known throughout the world as 'Tiger Bay'. It illustrates the history of the docks and the associated residential area of Butetown with its eclectic mix... -
The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division by Cyril Falls 9780094783102
$25.99A first-hand account of the early days of World War I '..it obeys the formalities of regimental history, while at the same time using powerfully condensed word pictures to convey the paradoxical horror of it all.' (The Irish Times)Book InformationISBN... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris
RRP: $43.86$33.48A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction by Vanessa R. Schwartz
RRP: $17.53$12.58In this Very Short Introduction, Vanessa Schwartz argues that modern France, as both a world stage and a global crossroads, is an essential actor in the development of contemporary culture. Indeed, French is the only language other than English spoken on... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780198757917
RRP: $61.41$44.73With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious... -
The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
RRP: $21.43$15.15Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and... -
England in the Thirteenth Century by Alan Harding 9780521316125
RRP: $76.03$67.00This is a comprehensive account of politics, government and society in thirteenth-century England. Three episodes stand out: the revolt of the barons against King John in 1215, the protest against the misgovernment of Henry III which began in 1258, and... -
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
RRP: $19.48$13.07A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' Antony Beevor'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic codes.' Sunday TelegraphSummertime, 1935. On a lake... -
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky 9780743284264
RRP: $39.00$26.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284264Author Edvard RadzinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
The Little Book of Birmingham by Norman Bartlam
RRP: $29.23$22.52The Little Book of Birmingham is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the city's most unusual crimes and punishments,... -
Bloody British History: Bristol by Valerie Pitt
RRP: $19.48$14.72Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. Take that you brute! Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the blitz. Bristol has one of the... -
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain by Professor Alec Ryrie 9780199565726
RRP: $204.75$124.23The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich... -
Women In England 1500-1760 by Anne Laurence
RRP: $25.33$16.77Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside... -
Wellington's Cavalry and Technical Corps, 1800 1815: Including Artillery by Esposito, Gabriele 9781399005470
RRP: $39.00$27.87While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign. This volume covers both British cavalry and artillery of the... -
The Hundred Years War: A People's History by David Green
RRP: $29.23$26.19What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining... -
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-45 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: $48.75$36.31The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invaders In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland... -
Virtue and Terror by Maximilien Robespierre
RRP: $19.48$15.93Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its... -
The Killing Fields of Provence: Occupation, Resistance and Liberation in the South of France by James Bourhill 9781526761323
RRP: $48.75$35.14In the South of France, the most memorable event of the Second World War was the sea and airborne invasion of 15 August 1944. Perhaps because it went relatively smoothly, this Second D-Day was soon relegated to the back pages of history. Operation... -
Death or Glory: The 17th/21st Lancers 1922-1993 by Kevin Shannon 9781781558201
RRP: $78.00$57.31During its seventy-one years of existence, the 17th/21st Lancers became one of the best known British cavalry regiments of all time. Beloved by the Press as the 'Death or Glory Boys', their renowned skull and crossbones 'Motto', was one of the most...