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Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war by Evelyn Shillington
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain by Tobias Buck 9781474610070
RRP: £20.00£14.29Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation. Capital and country were reeling from a series of economic shocks that had brought Spain to the brink of ruin. The housing boom... -
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty by Frank Barlow 9780582784406
RRP: £36.99£36.68'[for] those who like their early Middle Ages replete with murder and mayhem... Frank Barlow has an epic tale to tell' History TodayThe family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold... -
Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census by Jill Liddington 9780719087493
RRP: £19.99£18.22Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census... -
The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe by Constance Hoffman Berman
RRP: £31.00£27.76According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Citeaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that called for extreme asceticism, rejection of feudal... -
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk
RRP: £17.00£14.62In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet... -
The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin 9780750978569
RRP: £7.99£6.15Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario. On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard... -
The Spanish Civil War: A Military History by Charles J Esdaile
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939.In many histories, the war has been treated as a primarily political event with the military narrative subsumed into a much... -
Death on Ireland's Eye: The Victorian Murder Trial that Scandalised a Nation by Dean Ruxton
RRP: £15.99£11.61A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland's Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the... -
German U-Boat Ace Rolf Mutzelburg: The Patrols of U-201 in World War II by Luc Braeuer
RRP: £27.99£18.62German naval officer Rolf Mutzelburg was one of the outstanding figures of the WWII German U-boat arm. After obtaining regular successes against the North Atlantic convoys during his first four missions, he found new victims directly along the shores of... -
Medieval Painting in Bohemia by Jan Royt
RRP: £30.00£25.25Originally published in Czech in 2002 and now available in English, "Medieval Painting in Bohemia" assesses the history of painting in Bohemia and Moravia from the emergence of the Czech state in the late ninth century to the end of the rule of Ludwig... -
Offa and the Mercian Wars by Chris Peers 9781526711502
RRP: £14.99£10.95In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the... -
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer Dean Jobb 9781643752501
RRP: £13.99£8.69"A tour de force of storytelling." -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series"Jobb's excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read." -The New York Times Book Review "When a doctor does go wrong,... -
English Orchards: A Landscape History by Gerry Barnes 9781914427190
£39.27Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connection... -
Life in 1950s London by Mike Hutton 9781445649658
RRP: £10.99£7.25After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade. Austerity was slow to loosen its grip, but the Festival of Britain pointed a tentative way forward. Two years later saw the birth of a new Elizabethan... -
The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300-c.1450 by Christopher Allmand
RRP: £29.99£26.67This is a comparative study of how the societies of late-medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them commonly known as the Hundred Years War. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary views regarding the war. Two... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £18.99£13.61Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to... -
A Shadow on the Lens by Sam Hurcom
RRP: £8.99£6.55The stifling, atmospheric, gothic crime novel with a unique protagonist and killer twist, perfect for fans of The Woman in Black, The Silent Companions, and Little Strangers ****************1904. Thomas Bexley, one of the first forensic photographers,... -
Project Europe: A History by Kiran Klaus Patel 9781108494960
RRP: £24.99£19.14Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries as a bureaucratic monster eroding national sovereignty: at best wasteful, at worst dangerous. How did we reach this... -
Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection by Evelleen Richards 9780226436906
RRP: £41.00£35.39Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it... -
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher 9781782053651
£30.29In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many former privateers,... -
Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past by Richard Jobson 9781526113313
RRP: £25.00£22.03This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party's political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour's identity and... -
Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Complaints from Middle England by Nigel Cawthorne 9781783342013
RRP: £9.99£8.17The very best outrage from the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, the newspaper that coined the phrase 'Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells' for grumpy complaints.Book InformationISBN 9781783342013Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gibson... -
Patronage, Power, and Agency in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane 9780983753742
RRP: £30.95£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983753742Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher... -
The Wanderer by Michael Ridpath 9781782398752
RRP: £8.99£6.08From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing.'Michael Ridpath is trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best.' Peter James, author of the... -
The Blitz by John Grehan
RRP: £15.99£7.11For months, The Few' had defended Britain against the might of the Luftwaffe. Then, on 7 September 1940, everything changed. Instead of targeting airfields, the German bombers turned their attention to London. The Blitz had begun. For two months,... -
Extreme North: A Cultural History by Bernd Brunner
RRP: £21.99£18.55People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man's-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life. Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its... -
The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea by Tom Blass
RRP: £12.99£9.09Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways,... -
A History of Mevagissey by Liz Hurley 9780993218026
£6.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218026Author Liz HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Mudlark's PressPublisher Mudlark's Press -
Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century by Clifford Ando
RRP: £32.00£26.44This title presents a pioneering history of this 'period of crisis' for the Roman Empire. The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of... -
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy
RRP: £22.95£18.38In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new... -
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon by Professor Glenda Sluga
RRP: £30.00£23.69The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating... -
My Century by Aleksander Wat
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170656Author Aleksander WatFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II by Wendy Z. Goldman
RRP: £32.49£28.41The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism. After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German... -
The A to Z of Belgium by Robert Stallaerts 9780810872011
RRP: £45.00£39.49In 1830, the inhabitants of the southern part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands revolted against King William I. The National Congress then declared independence and proclaimed the installation of a parliamentary monarchy, and thus, the new... -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
German Generals Talk by Liddell B.H.
RRP: £15.99£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688060121Author Liddell B.H.Format PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Modern Spain: A Documentary History by Jon Cowans
RRP: £27.99£24.14While the Civil War of 1936-39 dominated Spain's twentieth-century history, the country's fateful and bloody division into left and right had its roots in the events of the Napoleonic era. In Modern Spain: A Documentary History, the first broad-ranging... -
Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marcel Krueger
RRP: £19.99£14.32A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction. Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic... -
The Battle of Clonmult: The IRA's Worst Defeat by Tom O'Neill 9780750992213
RRP: £15.99£12.25Exhaustive research by the author of newly available primary source material has unearthed new facts surrounding the battle. The new information allows this edition to more accurately document and analyse the Battle of Clonmult. The book makes an...