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An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: $29.23$20.65From 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: $31.18$23.89'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: $87.75$63.98This 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: $29.23$21.35Few 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: $15.58$11.29'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: $21.43$14.43'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: $29.23$21.35Wars 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: $19.48$13.86In 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: $31.18$23.89This 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: $38.98$34.75This 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: $23.40$13.63"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: $15.58$11.15Apologies 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: $33.13$29.46From 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: $33.13$23.95'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: $29.23$19.11A 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: $58.50$41.63The 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: $48.75$42.96Hungary, 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: $25.33$18.76The 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... -
The Little Book of Herefordshire by David Vaughan 9780750993821
RRP: $25.33$18.76The Little Book of Herefordshire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, 'I never knew that!' Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Herefordshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its literary,... -
Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper
RRP: $33.13$23.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door... -
The Prince (Reader's Library Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli 9781954839274
RRP: $11.68$11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839274Author Niccol MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
RRP: $21.43$14.43FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern... -
The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden by Dr Chloe Duckworth
RRP: $48.75$36.82The Great British Dig brings history and archaeology closer to home than ever before. Each week a team of archaeologists (led by presenter Hugh Dennis) descend on streets and gardens the length and breadth of the country to discover the treasures we... -
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel 9780008609979
RRP: $19.48$12.85Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. ... -
Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler 9780857198990
RRP: $44.83$30.28Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the... -
Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson
RRP: $48.75$33.13Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building... -
A League of Our Own: The Cymru Premier Story 1992-93 to 2022-23 by Mark Langshaw 9781904609100
RRP: $37.03$30.52A League of Our Own is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the establishment and 30-year history of the League of Wales, which was rebranded as the Welsh Premier League in 2010 and the Cymru Premier in 2019. The League of Wales kicked-off its... -
Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives: Their Design and Development by David Maidment 9781526752017
RRP: $58.50$42.80Churchward proposed a 5ft 8in wheeled 4-6-0 for mixed traffic duties in 1901 and it was seriously considered in 1905, but it took until 1936 before his successor, Charles Collett, realised the plan by persuading the GWR Board to replace many of the 43XX... -
Darganfod Tai Hanesyddol Eryri / Discovering the Historic Houses of Snowdonia by Richard Suggett
$42.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871184532Author Richard SuggettFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of WalesPublisher Royal... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121801
RRP: $29.23$22.13When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
The Strange Laws Of Old England by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: $21.43$14.43Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed... -
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley 9780300152807
RRP: $35.08$30.79How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire... -
The Tudor Crown by Joanna Hickson
RRP: $15.58$10.55'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times 'A great tale... the golden thread that led to the crown of England' Conn Iggulden She'll betray her king to crown her sonWhen Edward of York... -
Samuel Pepys: The Diaries by Samuel Pepys
RRP: $39.00$28.65When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most... -
Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War by Nick Lloyd 9781519531117
$35.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519531117Author Nick LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders by Carl Chinn
RRP: $17.53$9.28From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
$27.01London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
The Gestapo: A History of Horror by Jacques Delarue 9781602392465
RRP: $33.13$21.39From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a... -
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni 9780674660236
RRP: $66.20$53.45A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.The experience of reading is often presented as personal and... -
The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to industrial revolution by Alan Kidd 9781859362396
RRP: $25.33$18.92This fascinating book, by a leading historian of the city, tells Manchester's story from the Romans to the first steam-powered factories, showing how the centuries before the Industrial Revolution formed the foundation for the city's later greatness. ...