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But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
RRP: £9.99£6.96In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her... -
Arnhem 1944 by William F. Buckingham 9780752431871
RRP: £10.99£8.47The battle of Arnhem was a major turning point in World War II. It was a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions, to capture a series of bridges across the wide rivers which separated a powerful army from the plains of northern Germany.About... -
Bristol and the Civil War: For King and Parliament by John Lynch 9780752452142
RRP: £16.99£4.88In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England. It was the main west coast port, an internationally important entrepot and rich trading centre. Industry flourished, too, with manufacturing and processing industries like soap making and... -
Monuments of Orkney: A Visitor's Guide by Caroline Wickham-Jones
RRP: £10.00£7.01From the Early Neolithic farm at Knap of Howar to the flamboyant chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s, the Orkney Islands are amazingly rich in historic and prehistoric sites. At their centre is a cluster of spectacular Neolithic... -
The Gaelic Otherworld: John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions of the Highlands and the Islands of Scotland and Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands by John Gregorson Campbell
RRP: £30.00£20.93John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working in Scotland during the nineteenth century. Based on materials which he had gathered in the 1850s and 1860s, his Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland... -
Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
RRP: £16.99£12.47In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story... -
Seasons of My Life by Hannah Hauxwell
RRP: £8.99£6.39The classic and much-loved memoir by Hannah Hauxwell about life in remote Yorkshire in the 1970s. Hannah Hauxwell first came to the nation's attention on Yorkshire television's award-winning documentary TOO LONG A WINTER, when she captured the hearts and... -
The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens
RRP: £16.99£10.21How do you tell that a country has died? In this devastating, pessimistic, though critically-timed revised edition of his classic book, Peter Hitchens describes and regrets the abolition of Britain. In the years since Peter Hitchens first wrote The... -
Lost London by Vic Keegan 9780954076276
£26.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954076276Author Vic KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ShakespearesmonkeyPublisher ShakespearesmonkeyWeight(grams) 216g -
From Kings to Warlords - The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages by Katharine Simms 9780851157849
RRP: £24.99£16.20The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains who retained independent control of their territories achieved a recovery of power in the later middle ages. Katharine Simms studies the... -
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang 9781526613431
RRP: £12.99£9.02LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a... -
The British Oak by Archie Miles
RRP: £30.00£8.32The British Oak is a comprehensive overview of everything that the iconic oak tree signifies to Britain and its people.Archie Miles explores the rise of oak woods since the last Ice Age, placing the tree in its biological, cultural and economic context... -
Terrifying Tudors by Terry Deary 9781407152622
£3.52A new series of Horrible Histories sticker activity books, crammed with quick quizzes, foul facts and putrid pictures, the Horrible Histories Sticker Activity Book: Terrifying Tudors covers all things horrible in Tudor Britain. With... -
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker 9781789147735
RRP: £10.99£7.99Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source... -
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by Professor David I Kertzer
RRP: £20.00£13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983678Author David I. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck
RRP: £9.99£6.72Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary criticism to reflections on Germany's history, interrogating life and politics, language and freedom, hope and despair. By... -
I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels by Albert Meltzer
RRP: £12.95£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176931Author Albert MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller by Akala
RRP: £10.99£7.50*RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. It's personal, historical,... -
Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
RRP: £9.99£5.48Cilka's Journey is the million copy bestselling sequel to the phenomenon The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters. Available now.'She was the bravest person I ever met'Lale Sokolov, The... -
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape by Susan Owens
RRP: £12.99£8.83When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and... -
The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell
RRP: £15.99£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525621638Author Francesca Cartier BrickellFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: £10.99£6.59WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not... -
The Cambridge Five: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Soviet Spy Ring in Britain During World War II and the Cold War by Charles River Editors 9781983944260
RRP: £10.24£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983944260Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross 9781541674196
RRP: £30.00£19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674196Author Edward ShawcrossFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 161mm * 30mm -
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner 9780753559963
RRP: £25.00£18.30'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John... -
Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland by Sally M. Foster 9780859767224
RRP: £17.99£12.93Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a... -
Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII. by Stephen Walker
RRP: £12.99£9.06Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor... -
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745 by Professor Murray Pittock 9780748627578
RRP: £27.99£22.97The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and... -
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland by Deborah Orr
RRP: £9.99£7.00THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely amazing' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'A modern classic' Daily... -
Mein Kampf (vol. 1): Dual English-German Translation by Adolf Hitler 9781732353282
RRP: £27.00£20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732353282Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 692Imprint Clemens & Blair, LLCPublisher Clemens & Blair, LLCWeight(grams) 998g -
The Secret Dossier of a Knight Templar of the Sangreal: Revised Edition by Gretchen Cornwall 9781912971008
RRP: £29.99£21.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912971008Author Gretchen CornwallFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Grapevine Press LtdPublisher Grapevine Press LtdWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)... -
Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards by Chelsea Louise Berlin
RRP: £16.99£12.11In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms... -
Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic Amy Jeffs 9781529416619
RRP: £30.00£20.10From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author.Saints' legends suffused medieval... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden 9780750995672
RRP: £16.99£13.13Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written... -
The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99£7.54In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern... -
A Journey by Tony Blair
RRP: £16.99£10.21In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only living Labour leader to have won a general election.He has been one of the most dynamic... -
Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
RRP: £10.99£6.19WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure' Claire Tomalin, Guardian Extraordinary true stories of those who lived in East Germany. Travel through the remains of East... -
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£4.27The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
RRP: £20.00£11.24SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£7.76Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and...