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Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$24.73The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually... -
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695: A Late Voyage to St Kilda by Martin Martin 9781839830358
RRP: $29.23$21.00Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin's A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland and A Late Voyage to St Kilda paint a fascinating picture of the Hebrides at a crucial point in... -
A Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Becky Taylor 9780719091261
RRP: $38.98$34.34A minority and the state looks at the relationship between Travellers, or 'Gypsies', and the wider settled society in Britain throughout the twentieth century. This detailed study considers the ways in which the state has tried to create and enforce... -
The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits by Simon Schama
RRP: $33.13$25.90Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough... -
The Game of Hearts by Felicity Day
RRP: $42.90$29.07'The real world of Jane Austen is brought vividly to life in this beautifully written, endlessly captivating and often surprising account of Regency women. Not to be missed' Tracy Borman'If Georgette Heyer had written non-fiction it might have looked... -
King John: An Underrated King by Graham E. Seel 9780857285188
RRP: $25.33$25.08Through contextual analysis and by reassessing the chronicle evidence, 'King John: An Underrated King' presents a compelling reevaluation of the reign of King John, England's most maligned sovereign. With its thought-provoking analysis of the key issues... -
The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis by Charles Read
RRP: $48.75$40.79Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine. The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the... -
With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign by John H. Gill 9781784383091
RRP: $38.98$28.63When Napoleon's Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. From his earliest imperial campaigns, these troops provided played a key role as Napoleon swept from... -
The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $19.48$13.26The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the... -
General Boy by Richard Mead 9781473898998
RRP: $29.23$18.58This is the first biography of Boy Browning, whose name is inextricably linked with the creation and employment of Britains airborne forces in the Second World War. Commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, Browning served on the Western Front, earning a... -
The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo by Noam Chomsky 9780745316338
RRP: $42.88$28.39The crisis in Kosovo has excited passion and visionary exaltation of a kind rarely witnessed. The events have been portrayed as a 'new humanism', timed fortuitously with a new millennium, which will displace the crass and narrow interest politics of a... -
The Lost King of England - The East European Adventures of Edward the Exile by Gabriel Ronay 9780851157856
RRP: $48.73$34.34After the murder of Edmund Ironside in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex, banishing Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward, to Sweden with a `letter of death'.However, their lives were spared and the continental wanderings of the... -
Armageddon in Stalingrad Volume 2 The Stalingrad Trilogy: September - November 1942 by Colonel David M. Glantz
$148.10The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: ""Not a Step Back!"" The Soviets' resulting tenacious defense of the city led to urban warfare for... -
Robert Emmet: A Life by Patrick M. Geoghegan 9780717136759
RRP: $35.08$25.25Robert 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... -
Victorian Miniature by Owen Chadwick 9780521422512
RRP: $38.98$33.40Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the... -
Whetstone & North Finchley by John Heathfield
RRP: $29.23$22.52This fascinating collection of photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. The book gives a vivid impression of buildings, streets and... -
Chessington Remembered by Mark Hamilton Davison 9780953424016
RRP: $19.40$19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953424016Author Mark Hamilton DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. Houghton 9780300001228
$62.03"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period... -
The Wonders of Florence by Dario Cestaro 9788831719216
RRP: $39.00$26.48The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: $165.75$135.10A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or... -
Jaguar by Graham Robson
RRP: $17.53$13.57Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame and fortune in the motor industry, and the Jaguar brand that he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars,... -
The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian by Niketas Stethatos
RRP: $58.40$46.14Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church and revered as one of its most influential spiritual thinkers. But in his own time a cloud of controversy... -
Irish Murders by Lily Seafield 9781849343381
RRP: $9.73$7.41There are violent events and murders in the history of every country and Ireland is no exception. Through the years, it has had its share of violent murders including the murder of its most famous victim, Ellie Hanley or the 'Colleen Bawn', and the... -
Admirals by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: $29.23$19.11The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives... -
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe... by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $52.63$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563232Author Andrew PettegreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Every Seventh Wave by Daniel Glattauer
RRP: $19.48$11.62Have you ever just clicked with someone? - the sequel to the international bestseller Love Virtually about a relationship conducted by email.Love Virtually ends as Leo leaves Austria for America. He and Emmi have still not met, but the intensity of their... -
Britain's Island Fortresses: Defence of the Empire 1796-1956 by Bill Clements 9781526740304
RRP: $48.75$35.14During the 19th Century the Royal Navy played a key role defending the expanding British Empire. As sail gave way to steam power, there was a pressing requirement for coaling stations and dock facilities across the world's oceans. These strategic bases... -
Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection by Evelleen Richards 9780226436906
RRP: $79.95$69.01Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it... -
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism by Dita Amory 9781588397652
RRP: $78.00$57.54In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain went on holiday in Collioure, a modest French... -
Manchester Oddities: Curious People and Places Around Manchester by Keith Warrender 9780946361434
RRP: $31.10$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946361434Author Keith WarrenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Willow Publishing,TimperleyPublisher Willow Publishing,TimperleyDimensions(mm) 250mm... -
Peeping Tom by Kiri Bloom Walden
RRP: $44.83$40.40Reviled on its release, Peeping Tom (1960) all-but ended the career of director Michael Powell, previously one of Britain's most revered filmmakers. The story of a murderous cameraman and his compulsion to record his killings, Powell's film stunned the... -
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient by Fatima Manji
RRP: $21.43$15.15A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima ManjiWhy was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a pair of Persian-inscribed cannon end up in rural Wales?... -
Dive Scapa Flow by Rod Macdonald
RRP: $58.50$47.91Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of... -
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War by Ian Rutledge 9780863569500
RRP: $48.75$31.94In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great... -
Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
RRP: $37.03$36.04In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle... -
Corpse Candle (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 13): A gripping medieval mystery of monks and murder by Paul Doherty
RRP: $19.48$13.26The brothers of the abbey of St Martin's-in-the-Marsh pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horseman. They may hear the shrill blast of a hunting... -
The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price 9780521036320
RRP: $60.43$55.93This book is about a major historical figure, Napoleon III, and a political regime. It examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of the first Napoleon) was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d'etat... -
Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology by Mike Parker Pearson 9781789256932
RRP: $68.25$62.85This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh... -
Exorcising Hitler by Frederick Taylor
RRP: $33.13$25.66The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately after the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who... -
Copper Wings: British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing: Volume 1 by Guy Ellis 9781804513972
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513972Author Guy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company