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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie 9780007318995
RRP: £27.00£20.57Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. With a new foreword and previously unseen images,... -
Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar by Ciara Meehan
RRP: £26.99£19.34When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century... -
The London Feltham Tram: London's Last Modern Tram by Peter Waller 9781526702135
RRP: £25.00£18.62By the late 1920s the existing trams operated by both the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and the London United Tramways were increasingly aged. Although the long-term future of the tramways was open to doubt, the two operators co-operated in the... -
Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire by Felix Driver 9780631201120
RRP: £37.95£34.20Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge, exploration and empire.About the AuthorFelix Driver is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Power and... -
Before Scotland: A Prehistory by Alistair Moffat 9780500297254
RRP: £14.99£9.26A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative history. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavour. Alistair Moffat's gripping narrative ranges... -
Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor 9780241651711
RRP: £35.00£24.69‘In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary British political history, his will be the distinctive... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £18.99£14.30Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople by Sarah Bassett
RRP: £27.99£24.01From its foundation in the fourth century, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, 'Constantinople' not only identified a geographical location, but also summoned an idea. On the one hand, there was the fact of Constantinople, the city of... -
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £20.00£13.74A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 What kind of country is England today? ... -
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
RRP: £10.99£7.77In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme,... -
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground by Mark Mason
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way.In a story packed with historical trivia,... -
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
RRP: £14.99£11.13In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and... -
Making Sense of History: 1509-1745 by Alec Fisher
£25.21Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning... -
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: £10.99£7.77DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson PrizeThe story of a visionary British surgeon whose... -
Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women by Nancy Costello
RRP: £8.99£6.20"At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present sang 'Whispering Hope'. A line from that song stays in my mind - 'when the dark midnight is over, watch for the breaking of day'.Let me hope that this day and... -
Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction by Jane Caplan
RRP: £8.99£6.45Any consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echoes with us today. The incredible force of the... -
Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide by Professor John J. Michalczyk
RRP: £21.99£18.10For decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time, Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust sees celebrated... -
Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me by Matthew Lewis 9781445699097
RRP: £14.99£9.53King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in British history. Matthew Lewis's new biography aims to become a definitive account by exploring what is known of his childhood and the impacts it had on his personality and view of the... -
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve
RRP: £8.99£6.02'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our... -
The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn by Steve Richards
RRP: £10.99£7.32BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother Ed?... -
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall 9781009098854
RRP: £35.00£31.10Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully... -
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187 by Steven Runciman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...'Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of... -
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
RRP: £8.99£6.60Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.Walter Urban and Friedrich... -
Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45 by Maggie Craig
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Deftly told' The HeraldThey were modern men, the soldiers of the '45: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, gardeners and weavers. These are the men often written out of history, or else depicted as gallant but misguided fools. But in reality... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War by Janie Hampton
RRP: £12.99£8.48A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them;... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies 9781800811164
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have... -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes
RRP: £16.99£11.47Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing... -
Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland by Jo Kerrigan 9781788491075
RRP: £17.99£13.80A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient Ireland Thousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a widely accepted, sophisticated and surprisingly enlightened legal system kept society running smoothly. ... -
David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99£11.54A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99£9.09Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another world' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to... -
Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State by Oliver Zimmer 9780198766797
£32.62Across Europe the late nineteenth century marked a period of rapid economic change, increased migration, religious conflict, and inter-state competition. In Germany, these developments were further accentuated by the creation of the imperial state in... -
The Story of Cambridge by Stephanie Boyd
RRP: £17.99£14.87How did a small market town on the edge of the Fens become famous throughout the world? And how do Cambridge's two communities - 'town' and 'gown' - get along? This engaging history explains how Cambridge has developed from its prehistoric roots to... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: £14.99£10.95The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly,... -
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens by Mike Ashley
RRP: £12.99£8.60Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey by Betsy Whyte
RRP: £7.99£5.46The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy's story to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in vivid detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to... -
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
RRP: £10.99£7.25'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and... -
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
RRP: £16.99£13.26A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers,... -
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of... -
Irish Rugby Top 50 Players: A Compilation of the Greatest Ever Irish Rugby Players by Liam McCann 9781782818441
RRP: £12.99£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782818441Author Liam McCannFormat PaperbackImprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment Ltd -
Imagining Ireland's Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries by Prof Nicholas Canny 9780198911425
RRP: £30.00£28.00Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along...