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Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: $25.33$16.77Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London's Financial District by Amy Thomas 9780262048415
RRP: $56.55$40.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048415Author Amy ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 992gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 167mm * 33mm -
The Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands by David W. Moore 9780786464340
RRP: $42.88$35.04Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important... -
Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor
RRP: $29.23$22.91Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seismic effects on the politics and constitution of Britain. Brexit, while equally as momentous, has almost... -
The Mid-Victorian Generation: 1846-1886 by K. Theodore Hoppen
$117.60This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theo Hoppen... -
Con Colbert: 16Lives by John O'Callaghan
RRP: $31.18$24.12Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became... -
Belgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Veranneman 9781526716606
RRP: $48.75$34.36In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defences of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the... -
Nurses of Passchendaele: Tending the Wounded of Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 by Christine E. Hallett 9781526702883
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at... -
Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard's Story by Lee Sansum 9781635767919
RRP: $37.03$24.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635767919Author Lee SansumFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
RRP: $19.48$16.75A lively, inside account of Putin's years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet... -
Postcard from the Cotswolds by Jan Dobrzynski 9780752459288
RRP: $25.33$18.76The steep western ridge of the Cotswolds has a commanding view of the Severn Valley, the Malvern Hills and the Forest of Dean. To the north is an equally impressive view of the Vale of Evesham, the Worcester plain and Bredon Hill. The source of many... -
The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching by Gordon D. Webster
RRP: $42.90$32.06The city of Glasgow, formerly one of the largest industrial centres in the world, was once responsible for building about one-quarter of the world's railway locomotives. This was complemented by a massive urban railway network: the second largest in the... -
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: $54.60$43.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299199Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800 by Daniel Roche
RRP: $50.68$42.26Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without... -
The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht by Thomas Karlauf
RRP: $29.23$27.26November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were... -
Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911–1912 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $23.38$16.44In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was... -
Churchill's War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945 by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897361
RRP: $17.53$12.50Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way... -
Milltown Mischief: True Tales of Daring and Adventure in Victorian Bolton by Allen Clarke 9781874181811
RRP: $7.78$6.12Growing up in Victorian Bolton was definitely not easy for Allen and Midge. Life was harsh, what with dangerous mill work,ever-present hunger, and their shoeless feet always cold. But these two young milltown boys were determined to have as much fun as... -
The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution by Michael Braddick
RRP: $61.41$43.56The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to... -
The Betrothed Sister: The Daughters of Hastings Trilogy by Carol McGrath
RRP: $21.43$15.17'The Betrothed Sister is like one of its own rich embroideries, cut from the cloth of history and stitched with strange and passionate lives' EMMA DARWINThe final instalment in Carol McGrath's captivating The Daughters of Hastings trilogy!'This is a... -
619: The History of a Forgotten Squadron: How the recovery of a missing Lancaster aircraft and its crew in Hanover in 1977 led me to uncover the complete lost history of a World War Two Bomber Command Squadron by Bryan Clarke 9781903953518
$33.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953518Author Bryan ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 750gDimensions(mm)... -
I Love the Tudors: 400 Fantastic Facts by Mickey Mayhew
RRP: $19.50$12.73Henry VII's father died in prison before he was born.Henry VIII was too fat to walk down the stairs.Mary Queen of Scots was almost killed by an earthquake at Sheffield Castle.Elizabeth I wore poisonous makeup. This fun little book, containing 400... -
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History by Niamh Gallagher
$59.14On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to... -
Alicia: My Story by APPLEMAN
RRP: $17.53$9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553282184Author Alicia ApplemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 170mm... -
Meath Folk Tales by Richard Marsh 9781845887889
RRP: $25.33$18.76Meath, the 'Royal County', has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from across the county. Here you will find tales of the first occupation of Ireland and the exploits of St Patrick and... -
Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners by Nick Duerden
RRP: $19.48$12.50'A jaw-dropping investigation' - THE BOOKSELLER 'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' - THE GUARDIAN 'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant. I loved it.' - KIT DE WAAL Dishing the... -
The Book of Lieder by Richard Stokes 9780571224395
RRP: $78.00$53.98This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of... -
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
RRP: $36.06$29.70This study shows that the Wehrmacht was systematically involved in atrocities against the civilian population on the Eastern Front.About the AuthorOmer Bartov is Junior Fellow with Society of Fellows, Harvard University.Reviews'exciting and provocative... -
Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945 by Jean Louis Roba
RRP: $38.98$30.87Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 400... -
Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg 9780702319198
RRP: $17.53$11.35From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The first thing I noticed about C.J... -
A Few Planes for China - The Birth of the Flying Tigers by Eugenie Buchan
RRP: $64.35$54.50On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the... -
The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir by Maude Julien
RRP: $19.48$13.86For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape. Maude still remembers the sound of the gate being locked behind her. She was three years old when they moved into... -
That Neutral Island by Clair Wills
RRP: $29.23$19.11Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high... -
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom
RRP: $25.33$16.77Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele? Look closer and the more this world seems like ours: feminism,... -
From Cottage to Palace by Margaret Bramford 9781735490526
RRP: $17.45$12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735490526Author Margaret BramfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Malchik MediaPublisher Malchik MediaWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The Royal Air Force: The First One Hundred Years by John Buckley
RRP: $51.66$37.23In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world. Formed to serve a strategic need in the most intensive war that Britain had then fought, the RAF continued in the inter-war era to play a key role in the political... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis 9780190253226
RRP: $76.03$65.91In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was... -
A History of Highams Park & Hale End by M L Dunhill 9780750991902
RRP: $31.18$24.67Highams Park lies on the Greenwich Meridian, about ten miles from St Paul's Cathedral, but it is not easy to find it on a map. The old hamlet of Hale End is even more elusive, but is a vital community with its own identity. Early settlers came to the... -
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis 9780571234790
RRP: $25.33$16.69Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during... -
The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography by Frank T. Coulson 9780197689707
$85.10Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious...