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Great War Britain Derby: Remembering 1914-18 by Mike Galer
RRP: £12.99£9.62The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Derby offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the A'war to end all warsA'. A beautifully... -
Britain and Islam: A History from 622 to the Present Day by Martin Pugh
RRP: £27.50£24.86An eye-opening history of Britain and the Islamic world-a thousand-year relationship that is closer, deeper, and more mutually beneficial than is often recognized In this broad yet sympathetic survey-ranging from the Crusades to the modern day-Martin... -
A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 by Robert A. Kann
RRP: £29.00£22.94'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his... -
Mary Tudor Professor David Loades 9781445608181
RRP: £12.99£8.48Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign - a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister... -
John Stone's Chronicle: Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472 by Meriel Connor
RRP: £17.50£14.50It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's modest compilation of the internal life of his own monastic community-obituaries of monks, the celebration of the liturgy, even the weather-set against the wider events... -
Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951 by Ross McKibbin 9780198208556
RRP: £52.00£51.83Ross McKibbin investigates the ways in which 'class culture' characterized English society, and intruded into every aspect of life, during the period from 1918 to the mid-1950s. He demonstrates the influence of social class within the mini 'cultures'... -
Rogue Heroes: The History of the Sas, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben MacIntyre 9781101904183
RRP: £20.00£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781101904183Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing... -
The Fall of Charles I by Jane Hayter-Hames
RRP: £20.00£13.34Was Charles I a tyrant? He was a small man with a stammer who inherited three kingdoms when young but ultimately lost his head. His mistakes were blatant but the conflicts that arose over religion and royal power would have tested a more skilful king. ... -
Continental Drift: Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism by Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon 9781107071261
RRP: £34.99£31.09In the aftermath of the Second World War, Churchill sought to lead Europe into an integrated union, but just over seventy years later, Britain is poised to vote on leaving the EU. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon here recounts the fascinating history of... -
The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 by Nicholas Morton 9780198824541
RRP: £95.00£81.65The Crusader States and their Neighbours explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial... -
Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain by Sarkar, Dilip 9781399075725
£29.38Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victory that Hitler had demanded. Whilst the technical details of the aircraft and weapons involved are, of... -
Medieval Monstrosity: Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe by Charity Urbanski 9780367197421
RRP: £35.99£31.69This volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe around 500-1500 ce through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources. The main chapters focus on a specific theme, a type of... -
Crucible of Conflict: Three Centuries of Border War by John Sadler 9781849955423
RRP: £18.99£15.65The borderers - people forged and hardened by endemic warfare over generations, whether by raids and skirmishes or set piece battles - are marked even today as a distinct group. For three savage centuries England and Scotland, both dynamic races, slogged... -
Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan
RRP: £18.00£15.40The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in... -
The Enlightenment: A Genealogy by Dan Edelstein 9780226184494
RRP: £24.00£23.03What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first... -
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
RRP: £12.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620407684Author Joan DeJeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 348g -
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt
RRP: £36.99£30.73Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and... -
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by Chris Otter 9780226826530
RRP: £32.00£31.11A history of the unsustainable modern diet-heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar-that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support. We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary... -
Let's Pretend by Laura Vaughan 9781838952082
RRP: £8.99£6.08'Clever, sharp, and deliciously dark... A one-sitting read.' Andrea Mara_____________________________When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find...Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old... -
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power by Suzanne G. Cusick 9780226132136
RRP: £39.00£38.03A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her... -
The Little Book of Wales by Mark Lawson-Jones 9780752489278
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of Wales is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and history in Wales. Here we find out about the country's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally... -
How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 by Nancy Armstrong 9780231130592
RRP: £28.00£21.80Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting... -
1st Fallschirmjager Division in World War II: VOLUME ONE: YEARS OF ATTACK by Ben Christensen 9780764327926
RRP: £72.99£47.99Based on their combat achievements, friends and foes alike have singled out the men from the German 1st Parachute Division as the best soldiers in World War II, as they at Eben Emael executed the most successful commando raid of the war; on Crete the... -
The Reign of Edward II - New Perspectives by Gwilym Dodd
RRP: £80.00£73.68A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and... -
Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660 by David Underdown 9780192851932
£51.27What have maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches to do with the English Civil War? A great deal, argues David Underdown. Using three western counties as a case-study, he shows that the war was neither a dispute confined to the elite... -
Brierley Hill at Work: Britain in Old Photographs by Ned Williams 9780752465111
RRP: £14.99£11.55Brierley Hill was one of those Black Country towns which was identified by the work that went on within its boundaries. Everyone knows that Brierley Hill made steel and sausages and fine pieces of glassware. These activities are now in the past but the... -
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic by Jeremy Adelman
RRP: £35.00£32.13This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
RRP: £20.00£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407962Author Lars BrownworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Max Liebermann and International Modernism: An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich by Marion Deshmukh 9781845456627
RRP: £55.95£46.43Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and the Centre Allemand d'histoire de l'art/Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte, Paris Although Max Liebermann (1847-1935) began his career as a realist painter depicting... -
Oxford: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Blackham 9780752451282
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating selection of 180 archive postcards and maps takes the reader on a nostalgic journey around historic Oxford, showcasing some of the finest buildings and streets in this English university city. The collection conjures a forgotten world of... -
Background to Contemporary Greece v.2 by Marion Sarafis 9780850363944
RRP: £12.50£11.55Indispensable for all serious students of modern Greece and essential reading for anyone interested in Greek politics, economy, foreign relations and culture. The contributors, from four different countries, combine empathy and objectivity in their... -
Birmingham: The Sixties Revisited by Alton Douglas
£11.42Reality Shows. They may be all the rage on television at present but let's face it - the real reality is here! The minute you open the book you see life as it really was. The streets, and there are dozens of them, leaping out at you as true-to-life as... -
Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition by David Nirenberg 9780691165769
RRP: £25.00£19.59In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this... -
Plantagenet Queens & Consorts: Family, Duty and Power by Dr Steven J. Corvi 9781445699158
RRP: £9.99£6.52What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as it does the 'cadet' houses of Lancaster and York, to the beginning of the Modern Period in 1485? It is the... -
Ulverston by Carol Bennett 9780752437453
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images explores the historic market town and port of Ulverston. Situated on the Furness peninsula at the southernmost tip of the Lake District, Ulverston has a long and proud past, and has witnessed many... -
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall
RRP: £42.95£34.37Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book AwardA revelatory account of the nouvelle theologie, a clerical movement that revitalized the Catholic Church's role in twentieth-century French political life.Secularism has been a cornerstone of French... -
Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi by Virginia Cox 9781800084322
RRP: £55.00£48.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084322Author Virginia CoxFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1220g -
Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum: A Brief History Stephen A. Harris (Druce Curator, Oxford University Herbaria) 9781851244652
RRP: £14.99£13.03Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of civil war and nurtured during the restoration of the... -
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393059762
RRP: £27.99£25.15Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume-the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World-chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to... -
A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects by Steven Blake 9780752461199
RRP: £12.99£9.62Famous for its spa heritage, Regency architecture, schools and colleges and annual Festivals, Cheltenham was also once home to many notable inhabitants, including Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets', Edward Jenner, the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine...