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The Little Book of Somerset by Maurice Fells
RRP: $25.33$18.76Did you know?The town of Wincanton is twinned with a place that does not exist. William Gibbs of Tyntesfield House made his fortune by importing bird droppings from Peru. A song by 'Scrumpy and Western' singer Adge Cutler was banned by the BBC for being... -
It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City by Caspar Melville
RRP: $31.18$23.01This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's... -
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
RRP: $21.43$15.46No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to... -
Special Forces Brothers in Arms: Eoin and Ambrose McGonigal: War in the SAS and SBS by McGonigal, Patric 9781399082198
$65.81The McGonigal brothers, Eoin and Ambrose were fiercely independent characters. Born and educated in southern Ireland to a catholic family but raised in Belfast, they wasted no time in enlisting at the outbreak of War in 1939. Both outstanding sportsmen,... -
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman
RRP: $17.53$12.09In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her... -
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder by Gitta Sereny
RRP: $37.03$26.54The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of the. Gitta Sereny's... -
Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount
RRP: $25.33$14.64Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows... -
The Chessmen Thief by Barbara Henderson
RRP: $15.58$10.92Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his mother, his life becomes a dangerous game. The... -
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
RRP: $21.43$14.14You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is... -
We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post War Britain by Daniel Sonabend 9781788733250
RRP: $25.33$21.47In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in London they found a revived fascist movement inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley and stirring up agitation... -
French Wine: A History by Rod Phillips
RRP: $48.75$38.20"A fascinating book that belongs on every wine lover's bookshelf."-The Wine Economist"It's a book to read for its unstoppable torrent of fascinating and often surprising details."-Andrew Jefford, Decanter For centuries, wine has been associated with... -
A Train of Powder by Rebecca West 9781566633192
RRP: $25.33$18.74Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and... -
William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by John van der Kiste
RRP: $31.18$23.89Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the... -
Speeches, 1997-2006 by Gordon Brown 9780747588375
RRP: $58.50$7.94Speeches, 1997-2006, will collect all Gordon Brown's major speeches on a broad range of topics ranging from Britishness and fairness, through the economy and public services, to child poverty and environmental issues. They reflect a formidable and widely... -
Scotland: Mapping the Nation by Christopher Fleet 9781780274836
RRP: $68.25$49.20Winner of the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation's history. This is the first book to take maps... -
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
RRP: $25.33$16.69The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to... -
The Kings & Queens of England by Nicholas Best 9780297834878
RRP: $17.53$10.63A beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout historySpanning ten dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to... -
Where Next?: Finding our place in a world falling apart by Lisa Nandy
RRP: $33.13$29.46'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the Day Britain is in crisis. This timely book by one of the stars of frontline politics shows a way out. In this brilliant and accessible... -
The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History by Dan Jackson
RRP: $48.75$43.74The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but they've made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets out to recover this lost history, exploring the deep roots of Northumbrian culture-hard work and heavy drinking,... -
Masterpieces of Irish Crochet Lace: Techniques, Patterns, Instructions by Therese de Dillmont 9780486250793
RRP: $17.53$12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486250793Author M.Digby WyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
RRP: $48.75$33.13In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having... -
The Last Days of the Spanish Republic by Paul Preston 9780008163419
RRP: $25.33$17.73Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston's new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War. This is the... -
The First March of Gentlemen by Rafal Milach
RRP: $58.50$56.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910401170Author Rafal MilachFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint GOST BooksPublisher GOST BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 127mm * 15mm -
How Britain Brought Football to the World by Stuart Laycock
RRP: $31.18$24.67'Delighted to learn from this very enjoyable new book that the first ever game of football played in Austria was won by the Vienna Cricket Club.' - Tom Holland, Historian and BroadcasterHave we matched Wembley 1966 and 2022, or lost again on penalties?... -
The A to Z of France by Gino G. Raymond 9780810872066
RRP: $87.75$77.79From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul... -
West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State by Mark Stoyle 9780859896887
RRP: $39.00$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $25.33$17.73A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid and... -
Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Professor Selina Todd
RRP: $19.48$13.86'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus driver's daughter from Salford, the... -
Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain by Hannah Rose Woods
RRP: $23.38$16.44** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina'An eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman'Rule, Nostalgia announces Woods as... -
About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles by Dr Tim Cole 9781472937261
RRP: $37.03$29.09A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out... -
Fife at Work: Britain in Old Photographs by Carol McNeill 9780750970464
RRP: $29.23$22.52This fascinating pictorial history takes a look back at the days when Fife was home to a wide variety of traditional industries, including mining, farming, fishing, pottery and textile factories, shipping and shipbuilding. Featuring over 160 archive... -
Wartime Scrapbook: the Home Front 1939-1945 by Robert Opie 9780954795443
RRP: $29.15$21.02With the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War looming, this new edition of the Wartime Scrapbook revives memories of this evocative time in Britain's history. Life on the home front revolved around rationing, blackouts, and air raid... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Health and the people, c1000 to the present day by Adele Fletcher
$14.18Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the AQA GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams 9780008299897
RRP: $17.53$11.74London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. In this short history, bestselling historian Thomas Williams explores the profound... -
A Brief History of Italy by Jeremy Black
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience'Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian... -
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues by Roger Lytollis
RRP: $39.00$26.03This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them.As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool's... -
Croatia: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Marcus Tanner
$27.85In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era "Full of absorbing stories and important insights,... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928 by Benjamin Armstrong
RRP: $20.48$18.76Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain by Jim Vieira 9780956786548
RRP: $31.18$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956786548Author Jim VieiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Avalon Rising PublicationsPublisher Avalon Rising PublicationsWeight(grams) 540g -
Polish Legions 1914-19 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: $21.43$16.34Due to its partitions and dissolution in the late eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers enlisted in distinct units in the armies of many countries - primarily those of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, but also that of the...