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Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire by James Walvin 9780631229605
RRP: $58.40$51.89The terrible story of African slavery in the British colonies of the West Indies and North America is told with clarity and compassion in this classic history.About the AuthorJames Walvin is Professor of History at the University of York. He has written... -
Napoleon For Dummies by J. David Markham 9780764597985
RRP: $31.18$22.09Explains his influence on the military, law, politics, and religion Get the real story of Napoleon Bonaparte Not sure what's true about Napoleon? This easy-to-follow guide gets past the stereotypes and introduces you to this extraordinary man's... -
Combat History of Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217 by Timm Haasler
RRP: $87.73$61.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032201Author Timm HaaslerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
The Legendary Lost Town of Ravenser: On the Trail of Yorkshire's Famous Vanished Seaport by Phil Mathison 9780956299437
RRP: $19.48$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956299437Author Phil MathisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint DEADGOOD PublicationsPublisher DEADGOOD Publications -
Herodotus: Histories, Books 1-4 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri I-IV) by N. G. Wilson
$92.27In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has... -
Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire by Bernard Bailyn 9780807843116
RRP: $107.25$99.80Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean. An... -
Edexcel GCE History Unit 1 E/F4 Republicanism, Civil War and Francoism in Spain, 1931 Peter Callaghan 9781846907517
$46.88Written by experienced examiners and teachers and tailored to the new Edexcel specification. An active, engaging approach that brings History alive in the classroom! Exam tips, activities and sources in every chapter give students the confidence to... -
Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Carroll 9781009287326
RRP: $58.50$51.38In this original study Stuart Carroll transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility,... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer
RRP: $21.43$14.43The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
A Haunt of Murder (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 6): A ghostly tale of love and death in medieval England by Paul Doherty
RRP: $19.48$13.26As the sun sets, Chaucer's pilgrims find themselves lost in a Kent forest rumoured to be haunted. Huddled around the fire, trying to ignore the cries of screech owls and other, more frightening sounds of the night, the Clerk of Oxford agrees to tell a... -
Late Enlightenment: Emergence of the Modern 'National Idea' by Balazs Trencsenyi 9789637326523
RRP: $157.95$146.06This volume represents the first in a series of four books, a daring project by CEU Press, which presents the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The... -
A Mother's Sacrifice by Jennie Felton 9781472256478
RRP: $40.93$29.91'One of the nation's favourite saga writers' Lancashire PostIn the grand tradition of Josephine Cox, Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, comes a powerfully heartrending new saga from Jennie Felton. A Mother's Sacrifice is a story of family secrets, romance,... -
Nijmegen: US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division by Tim Saunders
RRP: $25.33$21.90The race by Montgomery's ground forces, principally 30 (British) Corps, to relieve the US & UK airborne troops at Nijmegen and Arnhem respectively has been the subject of fierce controversy since that dramatic summer of 1944. In the first of three books... -
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by Nicholas J. Higham 9780300210927
RRP: $53.63$46.59A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime... -
India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 by Burjor Avari
RRP: $85.78$74.96India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the... -
The Betrayal of Richard III: An Introduction to the Controversy by V. B. Lamb 9780750962995
RRP: $17.53$13.36In this classic work, Peter Hammond and the late V.B. Lamb survey the life and times of Richard III and examine the contemporary evidence for the events of his reign, tracing the origins of the traditional version of his career as a murderous tyrant and... -
The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
RRP: $52.65$41.07This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire... -
The Women by Alice Taylor 9781847177889
RRP: $29.23$23.52'We walk in the footprints of great women, women who lived through hard times on farms, in villages, towns and cities. The lives of these women are an untold story. This book is a celebration of the often forgotten "ordinary" women who gave so much to... -
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English 9780008299620
RRP: $39.00$27.34'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German... -
Heinemann Advanced History: France in Revolution 1776-1830 by Sally Waller
$63.22France in Revolution is the ideal book for students studying France in the period 1776-1830, including the origins and events of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, his rule and the subsequent restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy in 1814.Book... -
The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture by Brigitte Buettner
RRP: $163.70$144.55Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a visual... -
A Woman Much Missed: A Commissario Soneri Investigation by Valerio Varesi
RRP: $19.48$13.26Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural "A master storyteller" Barry Forshaw, IndependentA few days before Christmas, with Parma gripped by frost and fog, Ghitta Tagliavini, the elderly owner of a... -
Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret by Christopher Hale 9781803990606
RRP: $37.03$27.92In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of... -
City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages by Maya Maskarinec 9781512823721
RRP: $68.25$59.94It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century and the Gothic Wars in the sixth century, Rome was... -
Banbridge: The Star of County Down by Doreen McBride 9780750990936
RRP: $29.23$22.52Banbridge gets its name from the bridge built across the River Bann in 1712. It's a thriving modern town, rife with history and culture, surrounded by beautiful scenery that provided an iconic location for the internationally acclaimed television series... -
Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery by David Richardson 9781846312441
$62.71Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson. The... -
A Dress for Diana by David Emmanuel 9781862057494
RRP: $48.75$35.61After more than 20 years in a City vault, designers David and Elizabeth Emmanuel open the four locked trunks which reveal the story behind their creation of Princess Diana's wedding dress. After more than 20 years in a City vault, designers... -
The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover (Knights Templar Mysteries 24): Conspiracies and intrigue abound in this thrilling medieval mystery by Michael Jecks
RRP: $19.48$13.26Isabella, Queen of England, has been dispatched to France in an attempt to bring about peace between the two countries, and Baldwin must accompany her. But the day after their arrival, a servant is found murdered, with Baldwin's dagger lying next to the... -
Donald Ross and the Highland Clearances: 'Yet still the Blood is Strong' by Andrew Ross
RRP: $48.75$32.04The Highland Clearances was a dark episode in Scottish history when many thousands of people were forced off lands that they and their kin had lived on for generations. Some boarded ships destined for the colonies of America and Australia, others ended... -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918: The American Expeditionary Forces' Crowning Victory by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: $31.18$22.64When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, and then transported to France to fight against the... -
Rhondda by Emrys Jenkins 9780752430096
RRP: $29.23$22.52This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752430096Author Emrys... -
Challenger 2: British Main Battle Tank of the Gulf War by Robert Griffin 9781526756572
RRP: $33.13$23.95The pioneering tank crew of the First World War would be astonished by the advances made in the design of armoured fighting vehicles over the last 100 years which have resulted in the Challenger 2, the current main battle tank in service with the British... -
Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis Dennis J. Turner 9781913543112
RRP: $17.53$12.09Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis Based on letters and documents - not seen for seventy years - written by the Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur during the Nazi occupation of Belgium,... -
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 by Douglas Hamilton 9780719071836
RRP: $38.98$34.34This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought... -
The Battle of Neville's Cross: The Whole Story by Professor William Duggan
RRP: $13.65$11.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993598234Author Professor William DugganFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Langley PressPublisher Langley PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff 9780199670468
RRP: $61.41$43.56During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the... -
Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway Prison by Natalie Scott
RRP: $23.40$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436255Author Natalie ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm -
Hands Off Wales: Nationhood and Militancy by Dr Wyn Thomas 9781800992290
RRP: $38.98$35.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992290Author Wyn ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 36mm -
The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London by Hannah Greig
RRP: $56.53$40.33Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than... -
Mediaeval Town Plans by Brian Paul Hindle 9780747800651
$6.59Most English towns were founded in the later medieval period, in particular between the mid twelfth and early fourteenth centuries. This book begins by giving an outline of the growth in the number of towns and outlines the archaeological, documentary...