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Bosworth 1485: A Battle of Steel by Mike Ingram
RRP: $25.33$18.76'[An] important book to grace your bookshelves.' - JoeAnn Ricca, Founder of the Richard III Foundation, Inc.Bosworth Field saw the two great dynasties of the day clash on the battlefield: the reigning House of York, led by Richard III, against the rising... -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy 9780674268838
RRP: $33.05$27.01The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War... -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: $48.75$36.82An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from sub-Saharan Africa as... -
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth by Cynthia A Sandor 9780999755006
RRP: $52.08$37.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999755006Author Cynthia A SandorFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Bdm HistoryPublisher Bdm HistoryWeight(grams) 640g -
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson 9781800241978
RRP: $58.50$40.85The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's... -
Canal Builders: How Britain's Canal Network Evolved by Anthony Burton
RRP: $29.23$22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014304Author Anthony BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 165g -
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski 9781785788772
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping... -
A Time for Swords by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $17.53$12.58When the Vikings attack, a novice monk's life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents - famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when... -
The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction by John Robertson
RRP: $17.53$12.58A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human... -
i-SPY Castles: Spy it! Score it! (Collins Michelin i-SPY Guides) by i-SPY
RRP: $7.78$5.75Beat the boredom and take time out from screens with this pocket-sized book packed with facts, photos and fantastic spots for hours of fun! Kids will have fun collecting points on a visit to a castle with more than 140 things to find. From... -
The Medieval Household - Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 by Geoff Egan
RRP: $78.00$67.45Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts... -
The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir by Alan Lane 9781914228414
RRP: $25.33$16.83'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what I believe.' A deeply moving memoir of how a group of... -
The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed by Norman Lewis 9780907871484
RRP: $29.23$19.11the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. - reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church -... -
Crowdfunding the Revolution: The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence by Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
RRP: $39.00$32.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137585Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Ben Walsh History: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1): Medicine in Britain, Crime and Punishment in Britain, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England and Early Elizabethan England by Ben Walsh
RRP: $50.70$43.64Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsDiscover a fresh approach to Pearson Edexcel GCSE History, developed by bestselling author Ben... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: $42.90$29.45A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This,... -
The Silvertown Explosion: London 1917 by Graham Hill
RRP: $29.23$23.30The Silvertown explosionBook InformationISBN 9780752430539Author Graham HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $19.48$13.86SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik 9781786073839
RRP: $33.13$18.08'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' -Andrew Marr, Sunday... -
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen 9780300078008
RRP: $33.13$28.49"A historian's biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."-New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing a man too often viewed as a cardboard tyrant, Kamen has... -
The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
RRP: $39.00$28.65The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of them from solid, middle-class backgrounds, took the law into their own hands, and by means of arson,... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: $33.13$23.95The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English became a subject race, dominated by a Norman-French... -
A Short History of the Troubles by Brian Feeney
RRP: $17.53$13.40From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It details the... -
Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon by Barry Hatton
RRP: $33.13$29.85Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing-in 1755 the city was devastated... -
Birds of Prey - Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland by Philip Blood
RRP: $70.20$62.81This is the smoking gun of all your research. -- Professor Richard E Holmes (18 February 2001). Birds of Prey is a microhistory of the Nazi occupation of Bialowieza Forest, Polands national park. The narrative stretches from Goerings palatial lifestyle... -
The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: $25.33$16.54EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century, moving from peasant to princess in only a few generations. The women of the family brought about its... -
Paperboy by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $21.43$15.15Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a... -
The Perfect Sword: Forging the Middle Ages by Edoardo Albert
RRP: $42.90$28.68The story of the Bamburgh Sword - one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that... -
Pompeii by Dr Alison E. Cooley 9781350125216
RRP: $38.98$32.82This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist... -
The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
RRP: $33.13$23.95In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity... -
The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
RRP: $25.33$18.51The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more... -
Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post War Britain by Roberta E. Bivins 9780198725282
RRP: $120.90$119.91It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5... -
James II: King in Exile by John Callow 9780750964937
RRP: $29.23$23.30James II was Britain's last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But what of his life after this? What became of him during his... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: $39.00$27.87Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
The Guinness Girls - A Hint of Scandal: A truly captivating and page-turning story of the famous society girls by Emily Hourican 9781472274649
RRP: $19.48$13.26'Glorious! Glamorous, feisty women living through shifting times. Wonderful escapism' TRACY REESFrom the top ten bestselling author of The Glorious Guinness Girls, a stunning new novel of secrets, scandals and passions which follows the three enigmatic... -
The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction by George Garnett
RRP: $17.53$12.58The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what... -
Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty by Greg Dening
RRP: $52.63$39.76Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox which inspired... -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan
RRP: $31.18$26.48Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also... -
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: $37.03$27.32Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... -
Richard, Duke of York: King by Right by Matthew Lewis
RRP: $25.33$16.22Richard, 3rd Duke of York is frequently used to recall the colours of the rainbow with the mnemonic 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain', wrongly believed to be the Grand Old Duke of York who had 10,000 men, or mistaken for his youngest son, Richard III...