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The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War by Daniel George Ridley-Kitts
RRP: $38.98$30.07During the First World War the reputation of the British Royal Navy was put on the line in its defence of the country, and, crucially, it was in those years, 1914-19, that the Grand Fleet became the single most potent weapon of war of any nation. In this... -
Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain by John Potvin 9781784991098
RRP: $48.75$35.72The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics... -
Never Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982 by David Renton 9781138502710
RRP: $44.83$39.31By 1976, the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline, racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest, the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100,000... -
Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West by Gilles Kepel 9780691174846
RRP: $54.60$42.51The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafes and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On... -
Reformation: A world in turmoil by Andrew Atherstone
RRP: $21.43$15.15In The Reformation: Faith and Flames, Andrew Atherstone traces the dramatically compelling story from the Renaissance to the seventeenth-century wars of religion. Focusing on the key personalities and events, he explains the often complex ideas that were... -
The Templars by Piers Paul Read
RRP: $21.43$14.43The dramatic, ultimately tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades.Sifting myth from history, Piers Paul Read reveals the Templars - the multinational force of warrior monks, in their white tunics... -
1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
RRP: $25.33$16.77The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War. 1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers... -
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400–1450 by Ralph Moffat 9781837651481
RRP: $117.00$111.44Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of... -
Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 by Colonel David M. Glantz
RRP: $115.05$97.03Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been ""forgotten"" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania in April and May 1944 was one such campaign, which produced... -
Everyday Magicians: Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England by Sharon Hubbs Wright
RRP: $38.90$34.71Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love,... -
Practical Utopia: The Many Lives of Dartington Hall by Anna Neima
RRP: $146.25$132.87Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (nee Whitney), and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard. It quickly achieved international fame with its... -
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick 9781561310708
$41.42Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the... -
French Tanks of World War II 2: Cavalry Tanks and AFVs by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $25.33$21.47The sequel to French Tanks of World War II (1), this title focuses primarily on France's cavalry armored vehicles, including the light reconnaissance tanks such as the AMR and AMC families, the famous Somua S.35 cavalry tanks and the extensive array of... -
William the Conqueror: The Bastard of Normandy by Peter Rex
RRP: $19.48$12.95Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert 'the Magnificent', William the Conqueror is revealed as the brutal and violent product of his time, much given to outbursts of rage, capable of great cruelty, autocratic, avaricious and prone... -
A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy by Tom Horne 9781032197333
RRP: $77.98$68.37Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this... -
Watford: A History by Mary Forsyth
RRP: $35.08$26.60This volume explores the history of Watford from the earliest times to the 1970s. Set against a background of some of the major events in English history, it tells the story of how a small medieval settlement became the town we see today. Drawing on... -
The Berlin Cold War Companion 1945-1989 by David McCormack 9781781557280
RRP: $37.03$35.65This highly detailed, absorbing Cold War guide is the ideal companion for anyone wishing to explore the once divided capital of Berlin. Using his in-depth knowledge as a historian and battlefield/historical guide, David McCormack describes in vivid... -
Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy by Gill Bennett 9780199583751
RRP: $44.83$33.38Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside account of episodes that shaped Britain's position in... -
Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 by J. Matthew Gallman 9780807848456
RRP: $91.55$85.33Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban... -
Mapping South Kerry: 450 Years of a Changing Landscape: 2023 by Arnold Horner 9781913934712
RRP: $87.75$87.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934712Author Arnold HornerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint WordwellPublisher WordwellDimensions(mm) 260mm * 210mm * 40mm -
Edward Lhwyd: c. 1660-1709, Naturalist, Antiquary, Philologist by Brynley F. Roberts
RRP: $33.13$25.53Lhwyd, the illegitimate son of a father ruined by the Civil War, had to make his own way in the world. A competent botanist before going up to Oxford as a student, he spent much time there at the Botanical Garden before being appointed to the newly... -
Estonian Life Stories by Rutt Hinrikus
RRP: $191.10$175.95This is an anthology of life stories collected from 20th-century Estonians describing the travails of ordinary people under numerous regimes from an authentic perspective where time is placed in the context of life-spans, and subjects grounded in... -
Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings 9780719089923
RRP: $38.98$34.34Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and bachelor girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic, and widely ignored... -
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I by Charles S. Maier 9780691169798
RRP: $58.50$47.37Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of... -
Darwen by Martin Baggoley
RRP: $29.23$22.52This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs depicts scenes, people and events from everyday life in and around Darwen, from a period of more than one hundred years. Many of the photographs, most of which come from the Darwen Library, have not been... -
Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany by Dr. David S. Bachrach 9781843839279
RRP: $52.63$43.82A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon... -
The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism by Chris Hall
RRP: $48.75$34.36The life story of Madge Addy, a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, is a truly remarkable one. Madge left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican... -
1865: the Golden Age of Mountaineering: An illustrated history of Alpine climbing's greatest era by Gilles Modica 9781910240526
RRP: $76.05$57.66From the Wetterhorn in 1854 to the Matterhorn in 1865 - from triumph to tragedy - the Alps were conquered in a decade. It was what Reverend W.A.B. Coolidge called the 'golden age of alpinism,' the era of the first great guides (Christian Almer, Melchoir... -
Making Heritage Together: Archaeological Ethnography and Community Engagement with a Rural Community by Aris Anagnostopoulos 9781032194769
RRP: $42.88$37.71Making Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of knowledge about the past with a rural community in central Crete. It is based on a long-term archaeological ethnography project that engaged... -
Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Cynthia Enloe 9780803292291
$37.77Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world, the horrors of the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The women-primarily of Muslim but also of Croatian and Serbian... -
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon
RRP: $56.53$42.35There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. ... -
Scottish Arctic Whaling by Chesley W. Sanger
RRP: $39.00$27.40Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen... -
A Historical Guide to Roman York by Chrystal, Paul 9781526781284
RRP: $48.75$35.14Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of... -
On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two by Carr, John 9781399019750
RRP: $29.23$21.35Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolini's Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning, as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania,... -
Anglo-Papal Relations in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study in Medieval Diplomacy by Barbara Bombi 9780198729150
RRP: $195.00$151.53This volume is concerned with diplomacy between England and the papal curia during the first phase of the Anglo-French conflict known as the Hundred Years' War (1305-1360). On the one hand, Barbara Bombi compares how the practice of diplomacy, conducted... -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: $21.43$18.27In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom of... -
Borderlands: South Yorkshire in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Periods. AD 450-1066 by Phil Sidebottom 9781399065566
RRP: $39.00$27.87The period AD 450-1066 was a tumultuous time for the British Isles, and this was in particularly true of what became South Yorkshire. Existing on the borderland between the great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, South Yorkshire remained... -
Heroic Failure and the British by Stephanie Barczewski
RRP: $58.50$57.82From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian... -
Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution by William Doyle 9781789146172
RRP: $35.10$25.27The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized... -
Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age by Stefan Brink
RRP: $61.41$53.00Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and...