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Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks
RRP: $23.40$18.95In this revealing 'psycho-geography', Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to learn about the elusive writer Joseph Roth and the world in which he lived. The result is a riveting and involving documentary that reunites... -
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts
RRP: $51.66$44.44As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200... -
Relics of the Reich: The Buildings The Nazis Left Behind by Colin Philpott
RRP: $29.23$21.35Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler's Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by... -
Victoire: A True Story of Espionage, Resistance and Survival in World War Two by Roland Philipps
RRP: $21.43$15.15'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.Occupied Paris,... -
Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
RRP: $31.18$22.64Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating... -
Palermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
$86.05Palermo - the capital of Sicily - is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
RRP: $33.13$23.95Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds - The Loch Ness Mystery: Band 06/Orange by Sarah Rice
RRP: $12.19$11.23Discover the mystery of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster - from its origins and sightings to the latest scientific research - in this non-fiction report. Discover the mystery of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster - from its origins and sightings to the... -
Religion and the People of Western Europe 1789-1990 by Hugh McLeod 9780192892836
$87.28From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by religious dissenters and minorities. Chapel confronted church in Britain and Scandinavia; Catholics struggled... -
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806 by Joachim Whaley 9780199688838
RRP: $109.20$87.50Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that... -
Sunderland at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong 9781473891258
RRP: $29.23$21.35Sunderland was a key shipbuilding and repair facility with a long history of providing vessels for the British Merchant Navy. As well as its shipbuilding industry, the town also possessed other important industries such as paint manufacturing and... -
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar 9781503600089
RRP: $42.88$37.34Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912... -
Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850 by S. Karly Kehoe 9781487541088
RRP: $44.83$37.42Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes. In highlighting the relationship of Scottish and Irish Catholics with the... -
The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life by Ffion Hague 9780007219506
RRP: $25.33$18.92'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ... -
The River Hamble: A History by David Chun 9780752499666
RRP: $25.33$18.76The Hamble rises at Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire and flows into Southampton Water. It is a relatively small river but it has an interesting and varied history. Above Botley, the Hamble powered a number of mills, and in the 17th century plans to make... -
East Belfast: Ireland in Old Photographs by Keith Haines 9781845887780
RRP: $33.13$25.23Local history of East Belfast.Book InformationISBN 9781845887780Author Keith HainesFormat PaperbackImprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Bridport and West Bay: The buildings of the flax and hemp industry by Mike Williams 9781873592861
RRP: $33.13$30.50Bridport is an industrial market town on the west Dorset coast which has played a pivotal role in the region's hemp and flax industry for over 700 years. The industrial heritage of this town is not widely known outside the area and very little has been... -
Casanova by Ian Kelly
RRP: $25.33$16.77Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording... -
The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters by Christian Ingrao
RRP: $21.43$18.37The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the... -
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tullia D'Aragona 9780226136394
RRP: $40.95$39.60First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the... -
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791 by Jacob R. Marcus
RRP: $48.75$46.16To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which... -
The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Peter De Bolla
RRP: $48.73$42.26The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects two competing descriptions of the viewer or... -
Tudor Textiles by Eleri Lynn
RRP: $53.63$44.64A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were... -
The 2000s: Britain in Pictures by PA Photos 9781906672577
RRP: $29.23$19.89This title offers a beautifully produced tribute to the 2000s, featuring images straight from the archives of the "Press Association". This illuminating collection offers fascinating images that depict both major historical events and smaller, but no... -
The Russian Revolution, 1917 by Rex A. Wade
RRP: $50.68$42.88Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised... -
Liverpool and the Slave Trade by Anthony Tibbles
RRP: $32.08$30.40During the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships... -
England: An Archaeological Guide to Sites from earliest Times to AD 1600 by Timothy Darvill 9780192841018
$67.53Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles,... -
Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus by Hugh Kennedy 9780582495159
$89.66This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history... -
The Quest For Corvo by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: $35.08$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322615Author A.J.A. SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf
RRP: $43.86$31.08The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia by P.E. Caquet
RRP: $39.00$28.65On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: 'My good friends... I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of... -
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty by Frank Barlow
RRP: $263.25$228.70The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold - the last Anglo-Saxon king - and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror... -
Burnley Cotton Mills by Jack Nadin 9780752446592
RRP: $25.33$18.76In 1929, 63 per cent of the working population of Burnley was involved in the industry. This fascinating work, illustrated with over 90 images, explores the history of this industry which was so central to the economy of Burnley. The author includes... -
Old Gateshead by Alan Brazendale 9780752420738
RRP: $25.33$18.76This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs of the old part of Gateshead captures the essence of the town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a period of great expansion and change, during which the last vestiges of the... -
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Antoine Lilti
RRP: $53.61$48.13The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in... -
Folklore of Essex by Sylvia Kent 9780752436777
RRP: $29.23$22.52Essex - the witch hunting county - is especially rich in traditions, legends, dialect and stories that have been handed down through the ages. It is these traditions that are gathered together in this volume and whose origins and meanings are explored to... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916 by Brian Lavery
RRP: $17.53$11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860182Author W. M. James R.N.Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson: Volume III by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521932
RRP: $23.40$21.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521932Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
RRP: $21.43$15.15Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and... -
North Eastern Electric Stock 1904-2020: Its Design and Development by Graeme Gleaves
RRP: $48.75$35.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526740342Author Graeme GleavesFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 248g