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Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: £21.99£18.55A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.Book InformationISBN 9780892361649Author . DeissFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Sixteenth Century: 1485-1603 by Patrick Collinson 9780198207665
£38.01This book surveys the transformation of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. At the start of the period, England was an effectively governed monarchy, its government regal but also consensual. Yet its authority was not easily enforced beyond the... -
The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle by Charles Williams
RRP: £20.99£14.36Critical acclaim for The Last Great Frenchman "This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verveand anecdotal warmth, along with fresh appraisals of de Gaulle'scareer as soldier, politician, and head of state." --PublishersWeekly. "Highly... -
Rathmines: Ireland in Old Photographs by Maurice Curtis 9781845887049
RRP: £16.99£12.94Rathmines lies on the south bank of the Grand Canal, stretching out as far as Rathgar and bordered on two sides by Ranelagh to the east and Harold's Cross to the west. It is one of the country's most well-known suburbs, home to heads of government, vast... -
Fear, Reverence, Terror by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: £25.00£21.32We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
A Companion to Stuart Britain by Barry Coward 9781405189989
RRP: £38.95£35.20Covering the period from the accession of James I to the death of Queen Anne, this companion provides a magisterial overview of the 'long' seventeenth century in British history. Comprises original contributions by leading scholars of the periodGives a... -
Around Sheldon by David Green 9780752433639
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of Sheldon.Book InformationISBN 9780752433639Author Margaret D. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 8mm -
What is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620 by Callan Davies
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship... -
Classic Crimes by William Roughead
RRP: £26.00£18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322462Author William RougheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
"Tosca's" Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective by Susan V. Nicassio
RRP: £21.00£20.31A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, "Tosca" is one of the most popular operas ever written. In "Tosca's Rome," Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien... -
The Little Book of Sandymount by Kurt Kullmann
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Little Book of Sandymount is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about one of Dublin's most important suburbs. Here you will find out about Sandymount's streets and buildings, its schools and industries, its proud... -
Tracing Your Potteries Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians by Sharpe, Michael 9781526701275
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tracing Your Potteries Ancestors introduces readers to the wealth of information available to those wishing to trace their North Staffordshire roots. Michael Sharpe gives a fascinating insight into the history of this part of the Midlands which was for... -
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe by James J Sheehan
RRP: £16.99£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547086330Author James J SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295g -
Great Western Star Class Locomotives by Laurence Waters
RRP: £25.00£18.62Designed by G.J. Churchward, no. 40 was constructed at Swindon in April 1906. It was Swindons first 4 cylinder simple engine and was the forerunner of Churchwards famous 4 cylinder Star Class 4-6-0s. Initially built as a 4-4-2 Atlantic, no. 40 was named... -
The Sixteenth Century by Professor Euan Cameron
RRP: £32.99£31.25The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and... -
Long Live the Queen: 23 Rules for Living from Britain’s Longest-Reigning Monarch by Bryan Kozlowski
RRP: £17.99£12.30"Delicious...a happy and glorious guide to living your best regal life." -Victoria Arbiter, CNN Royal Commentator "Does this crown make me look old?" said the Queen never. Her longevity, health and physical stamina are legendary. Now the longest... -
A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present by Professor William Carr
RRP: £32.99£29.44A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present is a commanding survey of modern German history that guides you from the turn of the 19th century right the way through to Germany's continuing world-power status today. Covering the revolutions of 1848-49,... -
The Huguenots in England: Immigration and Settlement c.1550-1700 by B. J. Cottret 9780521333887
RRP: £89.99£72.57This is a much-revised version of Professor Cottret's acclaimed study of the Huguenot communities in England, first published in French by Aubier in 1985. The Huguenots in England presents a detailed, sympathetic assessment of one of the great migrations... -
Early Golf History: Royal Myths and Ancient Histories by Neil S Millar
RRP: £29.99£24.16There are numerous myths and misconceptions entrenched in the popular history of golf. Neil Millar challenges these myths and revisits the evidence surrounding the early history of golf. He shows how the game blossomed in Scotland in the fifteenth and... -
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by Professor John Took
RRP: £20.00£14.29John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it,... -
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 1: 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: £35.00£25.29The Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts. This technical and operational history is the definitive guide to the legendary Panzerwaffe, from... -
English Questions by Perry Anderson 9780860915911
RRP: £23.99£16.43A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published in New Left Review in the sixties; "Origins of the Present Crisis," which suggested a general schema for the... -
The White Rose by Dorothee Soelle 9780819560865
RRP: £14.95£12.75The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party. They named their group the White Rose,... -
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson
RRP: £18.99£14.52The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... -
Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970 by David Edgerton
RRP: £24.99£21.18The place of science and technology in the British economy and society is widely seen as critical to our understanding of the British 'decline'. There is a long tradition of characterising post-1870 Britain by its lack of enthusiasm for science and by... -
The Country House Kitchen 1650-1900 by Pamela A. Sambrook 9780752455969
RRP: £20.00£15.44The kitchen was very much the heart of the home in country houses the length and breadth of Britain. Although this hive of activity was kept behind closed doors and often hidden away in the bowels of vast mansions, these rooms ensured that the house and... -
The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Margaret Kelleher 9781910820421
RRP: £18.00£17.03The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of language change in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Professor Kelleher takes the Maamtrasna case - one that... -
Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I by Lady Anne Somerset
RRP: £12.99£8.60Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph'A gripping detective story ... Wonderfully dramatic ... Probably the juiciest court... -
British Military History for Dummies by Bryan Perrett 9780470032138
RRP: £15.99£11.33A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The... -
Up to Mametz...and Beyond by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith 9781526700551
RRP: £14.99£10.95Llewelyn Wyn Griffiths Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welsh Fusiliers), its... -
Emlyn Hughes: A Tribute to Crazy Horse by Phil Thompson
RRP: £12.99£9.62Whether it was a swashbuckling footballer whose style earned him the nickname Crazy Horse, or as a television quiz show captain who rubbed shoulders with royalty, Emlyn Hughes never did things by half. This book looks at the life of the legend who carved... -
Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
RRP: £9.99£6.64During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The... -
First World War Trials and Executions: Britain's Traitors, Spies and Killers, 1914-1918 by Simon Webb
RRP: £14.99£10.95Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, but in addition to this, 11 men were shot by firing squad at the Tower of... -
Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France by Stephen A. Hart
RRP: £30.00£21.95A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse and capitulation of seven modern industrialized nations. On 1 September 1939, Nazi... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Haunted Essex by Carmel King 9780752451268
RRP: £14.99£11.55From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around the county of Essex... -
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert
RRP: £26.95£21.41At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian... -
A History of Sunderland: Third Edition by Glen Lyndon Dodds 9780993252730
RRP: £26.00£19.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993252730Author Glen Lyndon DoddsFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Albion PressPublisher Albion PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *... -
The Vulgate Bible, Volume VI: The New Testament: Douay-Rheims Translation by Angela M. Kinney
£30.06This volume completes the six-volume Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian tradition through the twentieth century. It influenced...