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Trench Warfare 1914-18 by Tony Ashworth 9780330480680
£15.23The story of the great battles of the First World War has been told by historians, journalists and others. The shock and slaughter of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele are a major theme of most books. Large scale battles, however, comprised the smaller... -
Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Torpedo-Bomber Units by Marco Mattioli
RRP: £16.99£12.28Italy's most successful wartime bomber, the S.79 saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa and in the Mediterranean. Initially developed as a transport, the aircraft evolved into a dedicated medium... -
Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed by Cobb, Richard Charles 9781526748720
RRP: £19.99£14.28Jack the Ripper is the ultimate cold case. The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for over 130 years and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous... -
Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor: A Historical Guide from Pembroke to Bosworth by Phil Carradice 9781526743305
RRP: £12.99£8.32The story of Henry Tudor's march to Bosworth and the throne of England began long before the fatal summer of 1485, with his birth in Pembroke Castle. The gigantic fortress where he spent his childhood years lay some 12 miles inland from the spot where... -
The Dundee Whaling Fleet: Ships, Masters and Men by Malcolm Archibald
RRP: £17.99£16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861599Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press LtdDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *... -
Canning Town Voices by Howard Bloch
RRP: £12.99£9.62Canning Town VoicesBook InformationISBN 9780752410531Author Howard BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering 9780226667904
RRP: £32.00£31.51Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this surprising book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The... -
Shoes and Pattens by Francis Grew
RRP: £24.99£20.90The best scholarship focused on shoes and everyday dress accessories from the Middle Ages. Indispensable. SPECULUM Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the... -
The Weimar Republic by J. W. Hiden 9780582287068
RRP: £34.99£34.82It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This... -
Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America by Jeremy Jennings
RRP: £33.95£27.41A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels-most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de... -
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its founding in 1918, as a response to the new terror of... -
Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland by Patricia Mccarthy
RRP: £25.00£21.92A deft interweaving of architectural and social history For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country estates they resided in were carefully constructed to accommodate their cultivated lifestyles. Based on new research... -
Shadows of a Princess by Patrick D. Jephson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death, this sensational bestseller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period. In 1981 Lady Diana Spencer was seen by many as a... -
Bismarck and the Development of Germany: The Period of Unification, 1815-1871 by Otto Pflanze
RRP: £70.00£54.70This political history of Germany assesses Bismarck's role in the events which paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century, showing how Bismarck first established the association between German nationalism, Prussian militarism, and... -
A Grim Almanac of the Black Country by Nicola Sly 9780752479798
RRP: £17.99£13.64A Grim Almanac of the Black Country is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the area. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of the Black Country's past. Here... -
Beneath the Restless Wave: Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner by Edward Couzens-Lake
RRP: £20.00£14.29An engaging first-hand memoir of life in the Royal Navy during the Cold WarTony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialisation as a... -
The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy by Thomas Penn 9781451694178
RRP: £35.00£22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451694178Author Thomas PennFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 170mm... -
Red Scotland!: The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932 by William Kenefick 9780748625185
RRP: £31.00£28.69An excellent resource for teaching and learning, this book explores the rise and decline of left radicalism in Scotland c.1872 to 1932. A journey through these turbulent times observes the response of Scottish artisans to legal restrictions on... -
Miles M.52: Gateway to Supersonic Flight by Captain Eric Brown
RRP: £20.00£15.04In December 1943, a top secret contract (E.24/43) was awarded to Miles Aircraft. The contract was to build the world's first supersonic jet capable of 1000mph. The only reliable source of data on supersonic objects came from the Armament Research Dept... -
The Origins of the First World War by William Mulligan
RRP: £25.99£22.85A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: £9.99£6.70Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to... -
Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace by John D. Hosler
RRP: £25.00£20.92The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as often and as savagely. This was no less true in the... -
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18 by Alan Palmer
RRP: £12.99£8.60Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into... -
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander 9780807846759
RRP: £46.95£45.38Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores how the Nazi programme of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called... -
Roman de Brut by Wace 9780192871268
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to... -
The Castle in the Wars of the Roses by Dan Spencer
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of... -
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: £23.00£20.35More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century... -
The Lore of the Camino de Santiago: A Literary Pilgrimage by Jean Mitchell-Lanham 9781634133333
RRP: £38.95£30.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634133333Author Jean Mitchell-LanhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Two Harbors PressPublisher Two Harbors PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.68The 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 Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Becky Taylor 9780719091261
RRP: £19.99£17.61A 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 Game of Hearts by Felicity Day
RRP: £22.00£14.91'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... -
The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis by Charles Read
RRP: £25.00£20.92Rich 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: £19.99£14.68When 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: £9.99£6.80The 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... -
Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne Nelson
RRP: £14.99£4.71The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War.Suzanne Spaak was born into an affluent Belgian Catholic family and married into... -
The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo by Noam Chomsky 9780745316338
RRP: £21.99£14.56The 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: £24.99£17.61After 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... -
In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, The Grave, The Legend by Edoardo Albert
RRP: £10.99£7.25Alfred, son of AEthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, ran. Behind him, the takers of his land and kingdom fanned out, searching for the fleeing king ... Buried in AD 899 as the king of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great's... -
Victorian Miniature by Owen Chadwick 9780521422512
RRP: £19.99£17.13Nancy 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: £14.99£11.55This 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...