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The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
RRP: £15.00£14.87When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of... -
Sailors: English Merchant Seamen 1650 - 1775 by Peter Earle 9780413776341
RRP: £8.99£7.40"Sailors" is the history of the English merchant seaman in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; a period during which England rose to dominance in world commence and became the greatest naval power in the world. Drawing on primary documents and... -
Knutsford: A History by Joan Leach
RRP: £14.99£11.55Knutsford owed its prosperity less to the villages served by its market, gained with a 1292 charter, than to its surrounding manorial estates and the Egertons of Tatton, lords of the manor, who wielded both influence and wealth. Knutsford was given an... -
The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett 9780691126043
RRP: £22.00£17.36Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine... -
The Story of Worcester Pat Hughes 9781906663575
RRP: £15.00£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663575Author Pat HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Baltic Offensive: German Defense of Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania 1944-1945 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £24.95£18.35This is a compelling account of the German defense of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Against overwhelming Soviet forces the book shows how the German Army Group North was driven across the Baltics from Leningrad and fought a number... -
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain by Alec Ryrie 9780198736653
£49.17The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640, drawing on a rich... -
Around Olney by Joan Jones
RRP: £12.99£9.62The town of Olney in Buckinghamshire has seen many changes during the last 150 years. This fascinating selection of over 200 old pictures recalls the town's rural heritage in snapshots of thatched cottages and cattle markets, as well as local shops,... -
London's Burning: True Adventures on the Front Lines of Punk, 1976a1977 by Dave Thompson 9781556527692
RRP: £19.99£13.03London's Burning is the story of punk rock as it happened, stripped of hindsight and future legend, and laid bare. Here are the Damned and the Adverts on tour, the Sex Pistols swearing through their prime-time television debut, the Tom Robinson Band... -
Renewal and Reformation: Wales c.1415-1642 by Glanmor Williams 9780192852779
£38.78This is the first comprehensive history of the two decisive centuries which followed the defeat of Owain Glyndwr in 1415. The fifteenth century was a time of resilience and recovery from the Rebellion, and one which saw the emergence of ruling gentry... -
Charles I and the People of England by David Cressy 9780198708308
RRP: £16.99£12.59The story of the reign of Charles I -- told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions,... -
The Hop Bin: An Anthology of Hop Picking in Kent and East Sussex by Fran Doel 9780752493619
RRP: £14.99£12.55For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone world of hopping by gathering together a wide range of social and literary accounts, poems and songs from the... -
Haringey at War by Deborah Hedgecock 9780752432977
RRP: £12.99£9.62Looking at Haringey at war through the use of pictures and informative captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752432977Author Deborah HedgecockFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 by Edward B. Westermann
RRP: £32.95£32.10Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with... -
London 1945 Maureen Waller 9781529338157
RRP: £12.99£8.60London at the outset of war in 1939 was the greatest city in the world, the heart of the British Empire. The defiant capital had always been Hitler's prime target and 1945, the last year of the war, saw the final phase of the battle of London. The Civil... -
'Aryanisation' in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany by Frank Bajohr 9781571814852
RRP: £27.95£22.58Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the behavior of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide... -
Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941 by Sarah Davies
RRP: £22.99£19.56Between 1934 and 1941 Stalin unleashed what came to be known as the 'Great Terror' against millions of Soviet citizens. The same period also saw the 'Great Retreat', the repudiation of many of the aspirations of the Russian Revolution. The response of... -
Llandaff Cathedral by Pat Aithie 9781854114990
RRP: £25.00£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114990Author Nick LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 879g -
The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949 by C. M. Woodhouse
RRP: £25.00£22.03As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-4, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background of conflicting communist doctrine, shifting foreign... -
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267619
RRP: £31.00£24.03Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of... -
Cross & Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th - 15th Centuries) by David Nicolle 9781526766731
RRP: £15.99£11.61This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish... -
Waiting for War: Britain 1939-1940 by Barry Turner 9781785785481
RRP: £20.00£13.86At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat. But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed... -
Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire by G. A. Bremner
RRP: £40.49£37.28Throughout today's postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain's once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of that... -
New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England by Gill Hey 9781789252668
RRP: £38.00£34.91These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is... -
The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century by Francis Sejersted
RRP: £38.00£30.01A history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern worldThis is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis... -
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
RRP: £20.95£16.88Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Deeply thoughtful...A delight."-The... -
Stellas Daemonum: The Orders of Daemons by David Crowhurst
RRP: £45.00£37.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636914Author David CrowhurstFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Songs Of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook James Connolly 9781604868265
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604868265Author James ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Queen v Patrick O'Donnell: The Man who shot the informer James Carey by Sean O Cuirreain
£16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829949Author Sean O CuirreainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 650g -
Scottish Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond by David Dobson 9780806321134
RRP: £20.46£18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806321134Author David DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Bombers North: Allied Bomber Operations from Northern Australia 1942-1945 by Tom Lewis 9780645246995
RRP: £24.95£13.57In early March 1942 Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrendered and the lightning Japanese conquest of South East Asia was complete. Amid fears of a Japanese invasion of Australia, two understrength RAAF squadrons of Lockheed Hudsons began a... -
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek Sayer
RRP: £28.00£22.80Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A... -
Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel 9781800172203
RRP: £12.99£8.94'Borel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III by John H. Gill
£20.44With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking... -
The Economy of Renaissance Florence by Richard A. Goldthwaite
RRP: £33.00£30.52Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and... -
1938: Modern Britain: Social Change and Visions of the Future by Michael John Law
£29.07In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series... -
Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War by John Matusiak
RRP: £14.99£11.55'War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to... -
“Europe” in the Middle Ages by Klaus Oschema 9781641891592
RRP: £16.95£16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891592Author Klaus OschemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
The Story of British Tea Chests and Caddies: Social History and Decorative Techniques Anne Stevens 9781788841467
RRP: £55.00£37.85Tea was introduced to Britain in the 1650s. Its popularity burgeoned over the following two-and-a-half centuries, until it became a defining feature of British culture. Drawing inspiration from China, British craftsmen worked to display their skills on... -
Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy: The Encirclement and Breakout of Army Group South, 1944 by Nikolaus von Vormann 9781612006031
RRP: £19.95£15.83In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually...