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Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors by Martyn R Beardsley
RRP: $33.13$21.98Whenever vessels have foundered off the coasts of Britain, there have always been those willing to give their all to save those in peril. But in 1823, Sir William Hillary decided that this admirable but impromptu approach was not enough. He believed that... -
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
RRP: $50.68$47.21The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical... -
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History by Joel Warner
RRP: $46.80$30.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593135686Author Joel WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Hotspur: Henry Percy: Medieval Rebel by Andrew Boardman
RRP: $29.23$22.52'This book should be in your hands!' - Medieval History Magazine'A detailed and readable account of Hotspur's life that conveys a sense of the endemic violence of the Border Marches.' - Northern History'Boardman has studied the battlefields of Otterburn,... -
The Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243634
RRP: $48.65$34.30The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its erstwhile ally's treacherous onslaught in 1941. Its officer corps decimated by Stalin's purges and its men less well-trained than the Germans, the Red Army was poorly led, hampered by the power of the political... -
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records by Keith Dockray 9781781554692
RRP: $33.13$25.23Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a... -
On the Trail of the Yorkshire Ripper: His Final Secrets Revealed by Richard Charles Cobb
RRP: $29.23$21.35Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, remains the most infamous serial killer in British criminal history. His reign of terror saw 13 women brutally murdered and the largest criminal manhunt in British history. Just like Jack the Ripper, his... -
The Story of Stirling by Bruce Durie
RRP: $35.08$26.60Written by well-known writer, broadcaster and genealogist Bruce Durie, this book tells the amazing story of Stirling's history from earliest times to the modern day. Some of the most pivotal moments in Scottish history occurred in the city's... -
Life And Death Of Leon Trotsky by Victor Serge 9781608464692
RRP: $42.88$32.49The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky provides an invaluable picture of Leon Trotsky's intimate experience as both a leader of, and outcast exile from, the Russian Revolution. Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova's portrait brings Trotsky's extraordinary life to... -
History of the Law of Charity, 1532-1827 by Gareth Jones 9780521073929
RRP: $74.08$61.05This book covers the period from the Reformation to the end of Lord Eldon's Chancellorship when the modern law of charity had taken a definite shape. Mr Jones shows how the contemporary religious, economic and social pressures moulded the substantive law... -
Making Sense of History: 1901-present day by Neil Bates
$49.16Deliver 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... -
Queen Margaret of Scotland by Eileen Dunlop
RRP: $17.53$14.43Queen Margaret died in 1093 and was canonised in 1250. Until a generation ago, every Scots child was taught a pallid and uncontentious version of her life, drawn from the hagiography written not long after her death. Even twentieth-century biographies... -
About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row by Peter Pringle 9781845887605
RRP: $33.13$25.23Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: 'Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ... the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is... -
In the Year 1096: The First Crusade and the Jews by Robert Chazan 9780827606326
RRP: $46.78$36.09In the Year 1096 presents a clear, highly readable chronicle of the events of 1096. Noted teacher and historian Robert Chazan brings readers to critical moments in Jewish history, illuminating the events themselves, their antecedents, and their... -
Haunted Neath by Robert King 9780752450056
RRP: $25.33$18.76This collection of true-life ghost stories tells of apparitions, manifestations, strange sightings and happenings in Neath's streets, cemeteries and alehouses. Authentic stories that have been collected by the author over a period of forty years, most of... -
The Parisi: Britains and Romans in Eastern Yorkshire by Peter Halkon
RRP: $43.88$33.52According to the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, the Parisi tribe occupied the area of the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire during the Roman period. Over the last few decades our understanding of this region and its inhabitants has been transformed... -
Changing Times: The New Look and the Swinging Sixties - from the Hearth by Deirdre Beddoe 9781906784102
RRP: $23.38$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906784102Author Deirdre BeddoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 456g -
Making Sense of History: 1745-1901 by John D. Clare
$49.16Deliver 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... -
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL'A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES'Vivid and shocking' BOOKSELLERThe Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of... -
The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World by Jennifer Potter
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History MagazineIn 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in... -
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Ruger
RRP: $33.13$23.95On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. ... -
The Invisible Web: A Black Forest Investigation V by Oliver Bottini
RRP: $39.00$26.03A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Boni."Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times" Sunday TimesIn a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it's more than a random... -
The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott 9780691147987
RRP: $48.75$38.20In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds... -
The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets: True Stories from the Government Archives by Adam Macqueen
RRP: $21.43$14.43Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Concerned notes from ministers on the subject of the Heir to the Throne's potential... -
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire by David Chanteranne 9780233005737
RRP: $58.40$40.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233005737Author David ChanteranneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Andre Deutsch LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625 by Jenny Wormald
RRP: $46.78$38.04How did Scots live and change in the dying days of an independent kingdom?This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. Now re-issued in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a... -
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton 9780691248479
RRP: $68.25$45.79A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at... -
Perthshire Folk Tales by Lindsey Gibb 9780750982542
RRP: $25.33$18.76Storytellers Lindsey Gibb & C.A. Hope bring together stories from Perthshire, the heart of Scotland, with its bleak moors and majestic mountains, rushing rivers and great woodlands. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet witches and faeries, black... -
The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $39.00$29.27In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century. The book ranges from the concoction of sex and... -
Uplands and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library) by Ian Newton
RRP: $68.25$45.24Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds. The uplands of Britain are unique landscapes created by grazing animals, primarily livestock... -
Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence by Joel Greenberg 9781473885257
$29.46'A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes.' Michael Smith. The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key... -
Norfolk Shipping by Mike Stammers 9780752427577
RRP: $38.98$29.29The county of Norfolk is surrounded by water, with the North Sea to the east and north, the Great Ouse, Little Ouse and River Waveney to the west and south, and for hundreds of years ships have played a vital role in the economy of the country. No doubt... -
Shire Green, Wincobank & Beyond: Britain In Old Photographs by Bryan Woodriff
RRP: $29.23$22.52This third book continues the story of the many people who devoted so much of their lives to creating a wholesome environment in which to live and bring up their children. The background to this book is the development of the Methodist community, their... -
Edwardian Murder: Ightham and the Morpeth Train Robbery by Diane Janes 9780752449456
RRP: $25.33$18.76Caroline Luard was shot near Ightham in Kent in 1908. Within weeks her husband, a respectable Major-General, committed suicide. Two years later John Nisbet, a colliery cashier, was robbed and murdered on a train in Northumberland. Police arrested a man... -
Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George by Hilary L Rubinstein
RRP: $48.75$35.14In one of the most sensational and perplexing incidents in naval history, Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, a much-voyaged veteran and outstanding officer, drowned along with more than 800 crew and many civilian visitors, male and female, on a calm... -
The Shitshow: An 'Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?' Special by Steve Lowe
RRP: $25.33$16.77It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy... -
The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-43: Luck Was Lacking, but Valor Was Not by Ralph Riccio
RRP: $87.75$62.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336165Author Ralph RiccioFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire by Carla Gardina Pestana 9780674737310
RRP: $70.10$57.25In 1654, England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain's vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take... -
The SS Great Britain Story by John Christopher 9780752456041
RRP: $19.48$14.72The SS Great Britain Story is a concise account of one of the most famous steamships ever built. The great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel embraced the latest innovations, including an iron hull and a screw-propeller, to create an ocean liner... -
Mysterious Gloucestershire by Mark Turner 9780752454252
RRP: $25.33$18.76This richly illustrated A-Z of Gloucestershire's towns and villages contains manifold mysteries of every kind. There are many places in the region that might be termed mysterious, from crumbling manor houses, castles and ruins to ancient woods and...