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Germany's Russia Problem: The Struggle for Balance in Europe by John Lough
RRP: £12.99£9.24The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany's unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow's efforts to... -
Belfast: Photographic Memories by Henry Hall
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373033Author Henry HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
The Life Of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
RRP: £23.00£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322899Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of France by Colin Jones 9780521669924
RRP: £37.99£32.18Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millennium. Colin Jones offers not only an expert's account of political, social and cultural... -
To Hell or Monto: The Story of Dublin's Most Notorious Districts by Maurice Curtis 9781845888633
RRP: £17.99£14.04There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts not only in Ireland but in all of Europe could be found on the streets of Dublin. Though the name of Monto has endured long in folk memory, the area known as Hell was equally notorious,... -
Monmouth's First Rebellion: The Later Covenanter Risings, 1660-1685 by Warwick Louth 9781804512005
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512005Author Warwick LouthFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Victor Grayson: In Search of Britain's Lost Revolutionary by Harry Taylor
RRP: £25.00£16.38Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved. A firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by... -
All That is Wicked by Kate Winkler Dawson
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A master-class in bringing history to life, in all its creepy, twisted glory' - Karen Kilgariff, co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast'Every true crime fan will be riveted by Kate's master story-telling of this unforgettable tale' - Paul Holes, author... -
Lancashire: A Social History, 1558-1939 by John K. Walton
RRP: £25.00£18.32If England was 'the first industrial nation', Lancashire was emphatically the first industrial county the first to develop, over a wide area, the combination of steam-powered factory industry and urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most... -
The Quest for Arthur by Stuart McHardy 9781842820124
RRP: £16.99£12.47King Arthur of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table are enduring romantic figures. A national hero for the Bretons, the Welsh and the English alike Arthur is a potent figure for many. This quest leads to a radical new knowledge of the ancient myth... -
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay
RRP: £21.99£17.98Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern... -
The Fawn by Magda Szabó 9781529425642
RRP: £14.99£9.80LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION 2023"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles"... -
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 by Jonathan Israel
£27.89The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the... -
The Surfing Tribe: A History of Surfing in Britain by Roger Mansfield 9780952364603
RRP: £22.99£19.73"The Surfing Tribe" is the definitive story of the history of surfing in Britain. First published in 2009, this second edition has been significantly updated and expanded with an additional 32 pages and 60 new photos. Written by renowned surf historian... -
Picturing Russian Empire by Valerie Kivelson 9780197600528
RRP: £48.99£45.89Picturing Russian Empire offers a new way to approach the history of Russia as an empire and as a state located in a world characterized by a churning, dynamic exchange of people, ideas, and practices. It presents readers with a visual tour of the lands... -
London's Markets: From Smithfield to Portobello Road by Stephen Halliday 9780752494487
RRP: £14.99£11.55London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping and, occasionally, in stolen goods. As both a major port and the nation's capital, it was almost inevitable that commerce became the bedrock on which the... -
Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy by Michael Mallett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who... -
The History of Wales by John Graham Jones 9781783161683
RRP: £9.99£7.58This is an engaging, best-selling volume reproduced with text panels that provide brief biographies of historical figures and descriptions of major historical sites in Wales. As the only concise history of Wales currently available in print, this book is... -
Sir Robert Seppings of Fakenham: From Rural Messenger Boy to Surveyor of the King's Navy by Peter Elphick 9781909796935
RRP: £12.95£11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796935Author Peter ElphickFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing -
James II by Christine McGladdery
RRP: £25.00£17.32In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his... -
My Life by Leon Trotsky 9780486456096
RRP: £20.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486456096Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella
RRP: £35.00£27.74An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the SouthAfter the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to... -
Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel 9780375703997
RRP: £22.00£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703997Author Fernand BraudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain's Footpaths by Mike Parker 9780007448456
RRP: £10.99£8.29Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become... -
The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603 by Penry Williams 9780192880444
£55.32The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I--a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. These... -
Cnut: England's Viking King 1016-35 by M.K. Lawson 9780752460697
RRP: £14.99£11.55King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However, the beginnings of his kingship were less auspicious. He was a cruel and vicious warrior, who invaded England with his father Swegen Forkbeard,... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor
RRP: £35.00£26.73'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
A Landscape Revealed: 10,000 Years on a Chalkland Farm by Martin Green 9780752414904
RRP: £25.00£18.54The Down Farm Landscape (where the author's family has farmed for generations) is one of the most carefully studied areas in Western Europe. Much of this work has been carried out by the author himself - who in 1992 won the Pitt Rivers award for... -
Robert Emmet: A Life by Patrick M. Geoghegan 9780717136759
RRP: £17.99£12.95Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. He was the youngest son of Ireland's state physician and was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin. Like many young people in the early 1790s, he was caught up in... -
Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives by Ralph B. Levering 9780847694082
RRP: £30.00£26.68Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist,... -
Around Brigg by John Holland 9780752407968
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752407968Author John... -
The Isles of Scilly in the Great War by Richard Larn 9781473867666
RRP: £12.99£8.32The Isles of Scilly, five inhabited islands 24 miles west of Land's End, were of low priority to the War Department when the First World War was declared. With no manufacturing capability, no industry other than flower growing and agriculture, no... -
Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front by Andrea Hetherington
RRP: £25.00£17.62The story of First World War deserters who were shot at dawn, then pardoned nearly a century later has often been told, but these 306 soldiers represent a tiny proportion of deserters. More than 80,000 cases of desertion and absence were tried at courts... -
Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis
RRP: £16.95£16.46The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she... -
The Two Eleanors of Henry III: The Lives of Eleanor of Provence and Eleanor de Montfort by Darren Baker 9781526747518
RRP: £25.00£17.62Eleanor of Provence was born in the province of her name in 1223. She has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He's sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He's a kind, sensitive sort whose only... -
Great Lengths: The historic indoor swimming pools of Britain by Dr. Ian Gordon 9781905624522
RRP: £19.99£15.42Swimming is Britain's most popular participation sport. Nearly one in four people swim at least once a month, with around 80 million visits to swimming pools recorded every year. Surprisingly, although public baths have formed a vital part of community... -
James III by Norman Macdougall
RRP: £35.00£24.27James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for... -
Traditional Building Materials by Matthew Slocombe
RRP: £9.99£8.17Although steel and glass dominate modern cities, Britain boasts innumerable beautiful examples of more traditional construction methods. Many date from the period before easy nationwide transportation, when materials were usually grown or extracted... -
Operation Bluecoat by Ian Daglish
RRP: £12.99£11.78After two months of bitter combat in Normandy, Operation Bluecoat transformed the campaign into a war of movement. British and German armoured divisions were flung against one another. Over the rugged terrain of the 'Suisse Normande', thrust met with... -
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Aili McConnon
RRP: £20.00£12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590657Author Aili McConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm...