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Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark
RRP: $48.75$38.20From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of... -
The Knights Templar Helen J. Nicholson (Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University) 9781641891684
RRP: $31.10$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891684Author Helen J. NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography by June Purvis
RRP: $56.53$49.71Emmeline Pankhurst was perhaps the most influential woman of the twentieth century. Today her name is synonymous with the 'votes for women' campaign and she is remembered as the most brave and inspirational suffrage leader in history. In this absorbing... -
Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty by Terry Breverton
RRP: $19.48$12.95'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness ... from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel ... but because they do not know the appointed time, they are often... -
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman
$27.92In this follow-up to the bestselling "Sex with Kings" we discover the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the Queen's boudoir. After all, Queen Victoria, that bastion of virtue, had nine children! You'll read about the notorious Catherine... -
The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit Josh Ireland 9781473620353
RRP: $21.43$14.43'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien LewisPlayboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief.Traitors.John Amery is a drunk and a fanatic, an exiled playboy whose frail body is... -
A Century of Ilford: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Brian Evans 9780752479668
RRP: $25.33$18.76This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Ilford during the twentieth century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian by James Allan Evans
RRP: $31.18$27.77Even by modern standards, the Empress Theodora (?-548) had a remarkable rise to power. Born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, she worked as an actress in burlesque theater. Yet she attracted the love of the future emperor Justinian, who, to the... -
The London Dennis Trident by Matthew Wharmby
RRP: $68.25$50.49Propelled towards the end of the 1990s by accessibility imperative requiring low floor buses both in London and the rest of Britain, Dennis developed a tri axle Trident double decker for Hong Kong and then adapted the design as a two axle version for... -
The Holocaust in Greece by Giorgos Antoniou
RRP: $72.13$55.34For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new... -
Consett The Second Selection by Derwentdale Local History Society
RRP: $25.33$18.76This second selection of over 200 old photographs brought together by the Derwentdale Local History Society contiunes the dramatic story of Consett, its people and heritage. The lives and work surroundings of yesteryear have at time to be wondered at, as... -
England's Railway Heritage from the Air by Peter Waller 9781848024762
$112.14For almost a century, from its inception in the years immediately after World War I, the Aerofilms company recorded the changing face of England from the air. At the start of the era, the railway was still the predominant form of transport, with a... -
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition by Henri Pirenne 9780691162393
RRP: $29.23$20.22Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the... -
Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson 9780907579625
RRP: $13.63$11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579625Author Guy GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
A History of Amersham by Julian Hunt 9780750990882
RRP: $31.18$23.89In this entertaining book the author identifies each of the old coaching inns which provide ample evidence of Amersham's importance as a stopping place on the great coach road from London to the Midlands. He traces the history of all the town's tanneries... -
Crucible: The Year that Forged Our World by Jonathan Fenby 9781471155031
RRP: $29.23$18.25The Times Book of the YearBBC History Magazine Book of the YearDaily Telegraph Book of the Year BOOK OF THE WEEK - The Times 'The strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. "The thirteen months of 1947-48," writes Fenby, "provide... -
Monaghan: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Terence Dooley 9781846826160
RRP: $43.88$43.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826160Author Terence DooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g -
British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900 1975 by Webb, Simon 9781399011402
$34.79For many of us, the very expression Concentration Camp is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans,... -
Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds 9780582382497
RRP: $89.68$86.81This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of... -
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great by Robert Garland 9780691173801
RRP: $58.50$45.42Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement... -
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity by Simon Goldhill 9780691149844
RRP: $107.25$84.45How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill... -
Early Monasteries in Cornwall by Lynette Olson 9780851154787
RRP: $156.00$149.39This is the first study for more than seventy years to consider the early monasteries of Cornwall through a combination of evidence -written sources (the first hagiography of Brittany and Cornwall, ecclesiastical documents, Anglo-Saxon charters, Domesday... -
The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising by Dermot McEvoy 9781510712072
RRP: $25.33$23.85On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the General Post Office on O'Connell Street. Among the commoners in the... -
Birmingham Canals by Ray Shill 9780752488561
RRP: $29.23$25.23Birmingham is famously reputed to have more miles of canals than Venice. These canals contributed much to the city's growth, bringing coal and merchandise from the surrounding areas. As the city prospered economically, it continued to grow and absorb... -
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War Kevin Wilson 9781474601634
RRP: $19.48$13.26A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.'A gripping tribute to the British-based US 8th Air Force during the Second World War' Mail on... -
The Other First World War: The Blood-Soaked Russian Fronts 1914-1922 by Douglas Boyd
RRP: $33.13$25.23Winston Churchill called it 'the unknown war'. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914-18 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent - from the Arctic to the Adriatic, Black and... -
The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily by Gordon S. Brown 9780786414727
RRP: $42.88$35.04The Normans who originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries were looking for adventure or a livelihood, but only saw and took chances to gain fame and fortune. The story of the Norman conquest in Italy and Sicily is indeed one of... -
Ardkinglas: The Biography of a Highland Estate by Christina Noble
RRP: $29.23$19.89Ardkinglas is a 45,000-acre estate in Cairndow, a beautiful area of the Highlands at the head of Loch Fyne. Sir Andrew Noble, the author's great-grandfather, bought the estate in 1905 and his family have run it ever since. The estate has become famous... -
Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870 by Fabrice Bensimon 9780198835844
RRP: $191.10$172.98Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and... -
York at War 1939 45 by Armstrong, Craig 9781526704726
RRP: $29.23$21.35York has often been overlooked when it comes to Britain's wartime experience. The city was not though to have many industries of great wartime importance and it was not a part of the initial evacuation scheme. Yet this does not accurately reflect the... -
Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $51.66$37.05The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in... -
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
RRP: $25.33$16.77John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes... -
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny by Clare Asquith
RRP: $42.88$30.44The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and... -
The Cheltenham Book of Days by Michael Hasted 9780752465449
RRP: $19.48$14.72Taking you through the year day by day, The Cheltenham Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain... -
Regional Tramways - London Transport by Peter Waller 9781473871182
RRP: $48.75$28.43The final volume in the Regional Tramways' series focuses on the history of tram operation in the London area. Starting the story with the pioneering horse tramways operated by George Francis Train in the 1860s, the book narrates how the various horse,... -
Master Pongo: A Gorilla Conquers Europe by Mustafa Haikal 9780271082165
RRP: $48.65$42.88In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories... -
English History 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780192801401
RRP: $77.01$57.41This book begins on 4 August 1914, the day Britain entered the 'Great War', and describes the three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change up to the defeat of Japan in 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international... -
Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History by Emily Jones 9780198831334
$69.69Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
$28.63An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in... -
The Spectre Of Babeuf by Ian Birchall
RRP: $38.90$26.40The Spectre of Babeuf is a long-awaited introduction to Babeuf written by Ian Birchall. Little known to today's radicals, Babeuf and his conspiracy of equals were in some ways the direct historical precursor of the revolutionary socialist movement. Ian...