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The Design and Development of the Hawker Hunter: The Creation of Britain's Iconic Jet Fighter by Tony Buttler 9780752467467
RRP: $39.00$30.11Many books have been written about the Hawker Hunter, one of the world's great jet fighters. The majority, however, have tended to concentrate on the aircraft's extensive service career. Superbly illustrated with both colour and black-and-white... -
The London that Never Happened by Antony Badsey-Ellis 9781854144690
RRP: $38.90$37.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144690Author Antony Badsey-EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Capital History PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing -
The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett
RRP: $45.81$38.94An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory... -
A Brummie in the Family: Family and Local History in Birmingham by Vanessa Morgan
RRP: $29.23$22.52Family history is one of the most popular hobbies of recent years, with many looking into their roots and finding out about their past. In this book you will learn how to find dates and events in your ancestors' lives, and it will help put flesh on the... -
Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilot's Story by Squadron Leader Jerry Pook 9781399020558
RRP: $29.23$21.35During a twenty-five year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the... -
Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century by R.C. Wheeler
$58.99Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history. The low-lying parts of Lincolnshire are covered by an array of maps of intermediate scope, covering a greater area than a single parish but less than the whole... -
Fashion in the Middle Ages by Margaret Scott
RRP: $31.18$27.73From the costly velvets and furs worn by kings to the undyed wools and rough linens of the peasantry, the clothing worn by the various classes in the Middle Ages played an integral role in medieval society. In addition to providing clues to status,... -
Contemporary Ireland by Eoin O'Malley 9780230516700
$72.46In the last quarter century, Ireland has experienced dramatic political and economic change. This broad-ranging text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Irish society, politics and culture, as well as developments in its economy and... -
Letters from London by C. L. R. James 9781902669618
RRP: $25.33$23.30In 1932 the young writer and political activist CLR James arrived in London from his native Trinidad. During his first weeks in the city he wrote a series of essays about his impressions and experiences for publication back home in the Port of Spain... -
The Battle for Italy: One of the Second World War's Most Brutal Campaigns by John Strawson 9781804365861
RRP: $25.33$15.95One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought... -
Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green by Spencer Fitz-Gibbon
RRP: $48.75$46.53Although much has been written about the battle of Goose Green during the Falklands War, never before have its events been dissected so thoroughly and objectively, nor illuminated so clearly in the terms of current debate in NATO armies on tactical... -
A Concise History of Britain, 1707-1975 by W. A. Speck 9780521364003
RRP: $148.18$116.26This book provides a concise, illustrated history of Great Britain over the past three centuries, from its formation as a sovereign state between the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 to its partial loss of sovereignty in the accession to the... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: $54.60$42.51A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
London: City of the Dead by David Brandon
RRP: $37.03$27.92London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths and cemeteries. Taking the reader from Roman London to the... -
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... -
A Short History of the Spanish Civil War: Revised Edition by Prof. Julian Casanova 9781350152557
RRP: $29.23$26.23In this revised edition of A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, Julian Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish Civil War. Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book charts the most significant events and battles alongside the... -
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal 9780226728124
RRP: $48.75$47.46The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered... -
A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic by Clive Bloom
RRP: $31.18$23.89From regicides to revolutionaries; from fascists to anarchists; from Tom Paine to Tom Wintringham, this book is a history of noble ideals and crushing failures in which Clive Bloom takes us on a journey through British history, exploring our often rocky... -
History of Armenia: A Captivating Guide to Armenian History, Starting from Ancient Armenia to Its Declaration of Sovereignty from the Soviet Union by Captivating History 9781647480646
RRP: $38.94$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480646Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Castles of England by John Paul Davis
RRP: $48.75$35.14In 1051, a monk of Canterbury Cathedral made a bizarre observation in what would eventually form part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In his chronicling of the year's events, he described the establishment of a new fortification in Herefordshire by French... -
Women and the Crusades by Helen J. Nicholson 9780198806721
RRP: $51.66$43.66The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration... This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory... -
Churchill's Cigar: A Lifelong Love Affair Through War and Peace by Stephen McGinty
RRP: $29.23$22.52During the Second World War, Churchill's cigar was such an important beacon of resistance that MI5, together with the nation's top scientists, tested the Prime Minister's supplies on mice rather than risk sabotage. Today Winston Churchill and his cigar... -
Modern Gods by Nick Laird 9780008257354
RRP: $21.43$18.70A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended from one of our finest authors Alison Donnelly... -
The Chapels and Healings Wells of the Western Isles by Finlay MacLeod 9781789070019
RRP: $19.48$15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070019Author Finlay MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AcairPublisher Acair -
Swiss History in a Nutshell by Gregoire Nappey 9783905252194
RRP: $29.23$25.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905252194Author Gregoire NappeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bergli Books LtdPublisher Bergli Books LtdWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII by Lauren Johnson
RRP: $19.48$13.86The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient... -
Excavations at Knowth Volume 7: The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, Co. Meath by George Eogan
$127.30The complex of passage tombs at Knowth is dated c. 3200-2900 BC, and this volume deals with one of the most significant aspects of the site. It presents a complete catalogue of the 390 recorded carved stones at Knowth, through descriptions, drawings and... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: $58.40$46.92Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to... -
Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by William Chislett
RRP: $25.33$17.73Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades, from a dictatorship to a democracy and from a mostly local and agriculture-based economy to one of the biggest financial systems in the EU and internationally. Until 2008, it... -
Salford Pals , A History of the Salford Brigade: 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th Battalions Lancashire Fusiliers by Michael Stedman 9781844155200
RRP: $33.13$24.73Salford was late in recruiting for its Pals battalions, with many of its men already joining Territorial units and a new Pals battalion in Manchester. Yet within a year it had raised four Pals battalions and a reserve battalion. Raised mainly from... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: $107.23$93.83WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was... -
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by J. C. McKeown 9780195393750
RRP: $29.23$22.48The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. But what we know about them is sometimes bizarre, and hardly fits the conventional view of the Romans as a pragmatic... -
The Inner Life of Catholic Reform: From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment by Ulrich L Lehner
RRP: $54.58$46.04In The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue duree overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span following the Council of Trent, known as Catholic Reform. While there have been many studies of the... -
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner
RRP: $46.78$40.64Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and... -
The A to Z of Whisky Place-Names: Landscape, Language & Invention by Jacob King 9781849955034
RRP: $33.13$27.50Have you ever wondered about the place-names that appear on Scotch whisky bottles? What language the names come from, what they mean or if they are even real places? If you feel baffled about where to start looking for such information, then this... -
Building the French Empire, 1600-1800: Colonialism and Material Culture by Benjamin Steiner 9781526167019
RRP: $39.00$34.79This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a... -
Russia's Long Twentieth Century: Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives by Choi Chatterjee
RRP: $77.98$68.37Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to... -
Wales Since 1939 by Martin Johnes
RRP: $38.98$29.09The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its... -
The Weimar Republic by J. W. Hiden 9780582287068
RRP: $68.23$67.90It 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... -
Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe by Charles Freeman
RRP: $38.98$33.09A richly textured history spanning a thousand years of holy relics across Europe Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX...