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Vickers 1911-77 by Key Publishing
RRP: £15.99£7.11It seems incredible that a mere 33 years separates the maiden flights of the Barnes Wallis-designed R.100 airship from the beautiful VC10 airliner. It is also remarkable that, in 2013, the latter is still in service, albeit in dwindling numbers, but... -
British Fascism, 1918-1939: Parties, Ideology and Culture by Thomas Linehan
RRP: £19.99£16.80A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features of British fascism in the interwar period. Considers a previously... -
Thatcher and Thatcherism by Eric J. Evans
RRP: £36.99£32.53This revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of Thatcher and Thatcherism examines the origins and impact of 'Thatcherism' both as a cultural construct and an economic creed from the 1970s to the formation of a coalition government in 2010. New to... -
The Brunels: Father and Son by Burton, Anthony 9781526786999
RRP: £25.00£17.62Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son's... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615657
RRP: £16.99£13.60WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the... -
Catch That Tiger: Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II by Noel Botham 9781782194323
£9.38With exclusive access toprivate diariesand dozens of photographs, this is theincredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War IIUnleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank... -
Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939 by David Williamson 9781526782106
£16.01Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study,... -
Hitler Legacy: The Nazi Cult in Diaspora: How it Was Organized, How it Was Funded, and Why it Remains a Threat to Global Security in the Age of Terrorism by Peter Levenda 9780892542109
RRP: £26.00£18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892542109Author Peter LevendaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Traditional Buildings of the English Countryside: An Illustrated Guide by Geoffrey R. Sharpe 9781845118419
£28.01No other country offers so rich and varied a heritage of traditional buildings as England. From windmills to water mills, cottages to castles, dovecotes to beeboles a wealth of treasures await discovery. Drawing upon forty years' experience of caring for... -
Greece 1941: The Death Throes of Blitzkreig by Jeffrey Plowman 9781526730251
RRP: £19.99£14.68Blitzkrieg. Lightning war. We are all familiar with the rapid thrusts the Germans made in the early days of the Second World War that saw the demise first of Poland and then the Low Countries and France. But were the German tactics, which appeared at the... -
A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: £54.95£44.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024774Author Andy OrchardFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
RRP: £9.99£6.80A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome.The book begins with the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues with the military and political violence of the... -
The Authorised History of British Defence Economic Intelligence: A Cold War in Whitehall, 1929-90 by Peter Davies
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War.British economic intelligence has a longer pedigree than the Joint... -
Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini by Peter J. Williamson
RRP: £30.00£26.95Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's... -
Arras Counter-Attack 1940 by Tim Saunders 9781473889125
RRP: £12.99£9.09On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of Arras. This was the only significant armoured operation mounted by the British during the campaign. ... -
Class 66 by Fred Kerr 9781526776259
RRP: £30.00£21.95When British Railways (BR) was privatised in April 1994 some of the freight companies were bought by English Welsh Scottish Railways (EWSR), which immediately reviewed the mixed locomotive fleet and led to the decision to purchase 250 locomotives from... -
John Wheatley by John Hannan 9780851244976
£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851244976Author John HannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £28.00£22.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299199Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The French Resistance and its Legacy by Emeritus Professor Rod Kedward 9781350260429
RRP: £18.99£15.77With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book... -
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern by Greta LaFleur
RRP: £27.99£24.14Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that... -
The Knights Hospitaller Helen J. Nicholson 9781843830382
RRP: £24.99£20.90Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her account is comprehensive. An attractive volume. HISTORY This short... -
Schoenberg: Why He Matters by Harvey Sachs
RRP: £22.99£19.33In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with... -
Willenhall to Horseley Fields: Images of England by Alec Brew 9780752415109
RRP: £14.99£11.55This collection of over 200 old photographs illustrates scenes from the communities of Willenhall and Horseley Fields. These pictures show how relatively unchanged the streets and buildings of Willenhall are. A walk around the town today shows that it is... -
Around Mold: O Amgylch Yr Wyddgrug: Britain in Old Photographs by David Rowe
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating new book presents some of the events and people who have made up the life of the historic market town of Mold. From Roman times the town's strategic position ensured its regular involvement in Border warfare, while the extensive... -
Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany by John Weiss 9781566631747
RRP: £12.99£10.01Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book... -
Haunted Berwick by Darren W. Ritson 9780752455488
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating book contains a terrifying collection of true-life tales from around Berwick. Take a tour of this ancient town from Berwick Castle to the town walls and discover an unnerving assortment of poltergeists, spectres and myths, including a... -
Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Usha Vishnuvajjala 9781641893831
RRP: £95.00£90.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893831Author Usha VishnuvajjalaFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Dublin: The Story of a City by Stephen Conlin
RRP: £27.99£22.54Dublin has taken many forms over the last millennium: first a Scandinavian settlement, linked by kinship to Norway; then a medieval town that formed part of a Norman sphere of influence across Western Europe. By the eighteenth century, it was a 'polite'... -
The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £18.99£13.15The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a place that really existed, but it is long dead. By now, the word "Soviet" should be as meaningless as "Hapsburg". Yet it endures, as in the wave of "de-communisation" in Ukraine or the strange idea that the... -
County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales by Jacqueline Eales
RRP: £14.99£13.64Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt-who advanced the fruitful notion of the ""county community"" during the 17th century-this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt's influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship... -
Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: Volume 2 by Cora L. Scofield 9781781554760
RRP: £20.00£15.44Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In a turbulent world marred by civil war, Edward, 4th Duke of York-with good title to the throne-overthrew... -
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy 9780156027632
RRP: £15.99£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027632Author Mary McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
RRP: £16.99£13.09The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent... -
London: A Short History by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Engaging ... As each era superimposes itself on the ones before, he conjures up the vanished human history, hidden like the rivers flowing beneath, that is so much part of London's atmosphere' IRISH TIMES'Tantalisingly excellent' ISLINGTON TRIBUNEFrom... -
Eminent Churchillians by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £12.99£8.60A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... -
The Birmingham Gun Trade by David Williams
RRP: £17.99£13.64Birmingham has been a key innovator in the gun trade since the seventeenth century and the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof house operates to this day. Between 1855 and 1861 six million arms were testing and proofed here - many of them destined for the USA... -
Scotland Yard's History of Crime in 100 Objects by Alan Moss
RRP: £22.00£16.44Explore Britain's dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collection that, although world-famous, is so sensitive it is not open to public view. Each object tells its own... -
Skellig: Experience the Extraordinary by Des Lavelle
RRP: £11.99£9.00'Magic that takes you out, far out, of this time and this world.' George Bernard Shaw, after a visit to Skellig This is the story of two of the world's most stunning and unspoilt islands, Skellig Michael and Small Skellig, which lie off the coast of... -
Isle of Thanet in the Great War: Margate Broadstairs Ramsgate by Stephen Wynn 9781473834057
RRP: £14.99£10.95Because of the geographical location of the Isle of Thanet, it was always going to play a part in the First World War. For some wounded British and Commonwealth troops returning from the fighting in France and Belgium, it was their first sight of England... -
RAF WWII Operational and Flying Accident Casualty Files in The National Archives: Exploring their Contents by Mary Hudson 9781526783523
RRP: £25.00£17.62At its height during the Second World War, the RAF totalled 185,000 personnel. Men and women, from home and overseas, served alongside members of Dominion Air Forces, and those members of the air forces of occupied Europe who had escaped to fight on. All...