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Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling the uncontrollable by Jane Pearson
RRP: £18.99£16.98The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest... -
Medieval Arms and Armour - a Sourcebook. Volume I - The Fourteenth Century by Ralph Moffat 9781783276769
RRP: £65.00£60.58Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. "A substantial and impressive piece of scholarship, one that will serve scholars and enthusiasts of medieval arms and armour very... -
The Kew Gardens Girls: An emotional and sweeping historical novel perfect for fans of Kate Morton by Posy Lovell
RRP: £9.99£6.80In official partnership with Kew GardensIt's 1916 and England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to... -
The Undiscovered Country by Aidan McQuade
RRP: £8.99£6.22'A smart and pacy debut' Irish Times'One is struck by its mordant wit and fierce intelligence' Martin W. Sandler, National Book Award-winning author and historian'A cracker read about morality and ethics in a time of conflict . . . A really accessible... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: £10.99£7.32After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club in 2007, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable wine, cheap property and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy... -
Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King by Francis Young
RRP: £15.99£12.46What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues... -
Elizabeth: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth 9780241674604
RRP: £25.00£18.02THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL ABOUT CHARLES III's CORONATION WITH ADDED PHOTOGRAPHSA personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best'Compelling... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£9.80Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... -
1923: The Crisis That Led to Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones 9781529360745
RRP: £14.99£8.54A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully... -
Haunted Weymouth by Alex Woodward
RRP: £14.99£11.55Who is the unseen lady that makes her presence chillingly felt to those who fail to bid her 'Good Morning'? What was the featureless dark shadow that terrified a curious young boy exploring a disused fort? From heart-stopping encounters with a Roman... -
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
RRP: £30.00£18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938203Author Raymond IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Little Book of Devon by John van der Kiste 9780752461670
RRP: £9.99£7.55Do you know? Which MP was the first woman to take her seat in parliament? Who was the man they could not hang? Which member of the Beatles lost his temper at a famous Devon landmark? A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present,... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: £35.99£33.99The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power,... -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
RRP: £20.00£15.44For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, The Times Literary SupplementFor the Western... -
Treachery at Hursley Park House: The intriguing new WWII mystery featuring wily heroine Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge
RRP: £8.99£6.22From the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition comes another tantalising Golden Age wartime mystery.**DON'T MISS THE LASTEST JOSEPHINE FOX MYSTERY, A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. OUT NOW!**PRAISE FOR THE JOSEPHINE FOX... -
The G.I. Bride: A heart-warming saga full of tears, friendship and hope by Eileen Ramsay
RRP: £9.99£6.85If you love Donna Douglas' Nightingale Girls and the nurses of Nadine Dorries' Lovely Lane, be prepared to fall in love with April, Eugenie, Bess and Nancy as they band together to support each other through love, loss and scandal. In wartime, can new... -
How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours by Harry Mount
RRP: £12.99£9.09Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: £11.99£8.43'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
George I (Penguin Monarchs): The Lucky King by Tim Blanning
RRP: £4.99£3.80'One stroke of good fortune after another had taken him to be ... the sovereign of three kingdoms and thus ruler of what was rapidly becoming the most prosperous and powerful empire in the world'George I was probably the most important of the... -
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: £10.99£7.77An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: £14.99£10.59From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Purple, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £45.00£32.81This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £14.99£10.95Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
Stephen (Penguin Monarchs): The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Stephen risked being seen as a man who never quite transcended the essential flawed-ness of his claim to be king. His actions betrayed uneasiness in his new skin' Remembered as a time in which 'Christ and his saints slept', Stephen's troubled reign... -
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman 9781474623971
RRP: £10.99£7.40'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALAt the outbreak of war, the British monarchy was in turmoil. Edward VIII had abdicated, leaving his brother Bertie to take on a... -
The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy
RRP: £14.99£10.95Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps... -
Forest of Foes by Matthew Harffy
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church. AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims... -
Cold War: East Anglia by Jim Wilson
RRP: £15.99£12.25This is the story of how the Cold War impacted on the people of East Anglia. Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself as the target of a Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad for not only the British... -
Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries C.1420-1530 by Andrew Brown 9780719056208
RRP: £19.99£17.82This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with... -
Standing Heavy by Gauz
RRP: £12.00£8.00"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The MajestiesInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies... -
A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magick by Lisa Peschel 9780875425931
RRP: £7.99£5.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875425931Author Lisa PeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 101g -
Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict by Christiane Tietz 9780198852537
RRP: £16.99£15.11From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and... -
Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time... -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.80A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't... -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00£21.35The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom.The Fate of the Empire asks crucial questions about... -
Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orban and the Subversion of Hungary by Zsuzsanna Szelenyi 9781787388024
RRP: £25.00£22.03Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orban. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orban launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's twenty-year, post-Cold War... -
London's Secret Square Mile by David Long
RRP: £12.99£9.62The streetscape of London's historic square mile has been evolving for centuries, but the City's busy commercial heart still boasts an extensive network of narrow passages and alleyways, secret squares and half-hidden courtyards.Using his wealth of local...