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Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo
RRP: $25.33$16.69A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year "Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland "A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... -
The Wellington Bomber Story by Martin W. Bowman 9780752461939
RRP: $17.53$14.43The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber, universally known as the 'Wimpy'. The only bomber in construction throughout the Second World War, the Wellington played a pivotal role in training and combat from its conception... -
The Cromwell Street Murders: The Detective's Story by John Bennett
RRP: $33.13$25.23This book tells for the first time the story from a police perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham Gardner,... -
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith R. Walkowitz 9780226871462
RRP: $52.65$52.40From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal... -
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON) by Mr Richard King 9780571295654
RRP: $25.33$16.69Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID... -
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 by Joe Sacco
RRP: $37.03$28.70In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb... -
The A-Z of Curious Bristol by Maurice Fells
RRP: $29.23$22.52Bristol's history is packed with peculiar customs and curious characters. This book explains why the vicar in one church goes on an annual trek to peer down a manhole; why captains of industry sing an eighteen-verse song in memory of Queen Elizabeth I;... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder 9780330522793
RRP: $25.33$18.06For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals,... -
The Final Curtsey: The Autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, First Cousin of the Queen and Niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Margaret Rhodes 9780954127565
RRP: $35.08$30.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954127565Author Margaret RhodesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Umbria PressPublisher Umbria Press -
Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945 by Neil H. Donahue 9781571810014
RRP: $208.65$169.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Red Monarch: The Bronte sisters take on the underworld of London in this exciting and gripping sequel by Bella Ellis
RRP: $19.48$13.26'Teeming with details of the Brontes, of the times and the city, this is such a pleasurable read' - NB Magazine 'Captivating' - Crime Monthly'Filled with twists, turns and Gothic touches, and a strong feminist streak' - Bradford TelegraphThe Bronte... -
The Glorious Guinness Girls: A story of the scandals and secrets of the famous society girls by Emily Hourican
RRP: $21.43$14.43LOVE AFFAIRS, LIES, SCANDALS, SECRETS... Aileen. Maureen. Oonagh. The private lives of the Glorious Guinness Girls fascinated a nation. But privilege always has its price...Granddaughters of the first Earl of Iveagh, the three daughters of Ernest... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $29.23$21.35Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain by Robert Saunders 9781108442244
RRP: $33.13$29.46On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on... -
Canterbury: 2000 Years of History by H. M Lyle 9780752419480
RRP: $43.88$32.74A history of CanterburyBook InformationISBN 9780752419480Author Marjorie LyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 171mm * 10mm -
Marsden Haddock and the Androides: Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world by Neil Cronin 9781801510967
$24.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510967Author Neil CroninFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening... -
Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c.1590-1640 by Nicholas Tyacke 9780198201847
$225.23This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The widely accepted view has been that the rise of puritanism was a major cause of the... -
Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 1: 1789-1933 by Heinrich August Winkler 9780192884619
RRP: $77.98$66.75Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the... -
The London Town Garden, 1700-1840 by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9780300085389
RRP: $78.00$68.62Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space, and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now been... -
Access to History for Cambridge International AS Level: Modern Europe 1750-1921 by Nicholas Fellows
$62.19This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the Modern Europe 1750-1921 Option from the Cambridge AS History syllabus for first examination from 2021.Develop knowledge and analytical skills with engaging... -
The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977 by Robert Lacey
RRP: $19.48$13.36In this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen... -
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $37.03$26.54The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to... -
On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley
$25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589790049Author Ernie O'MalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Seventeenth Century by Jenny Wormald 9780198731610
$78.18The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 dramatically changed the nature and level of interaction between the constituent parts of the British Isles, and over the course of the century that followed the seismic shocks of constitutional... -
Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape by Mike Osborne
RRP: $48.75$36.93Following work recently brought into sharper focus by the Defence of Britain Project, this is the first extensive overview of the military structures of the twentieth century, combining both documentary and fieldwork research. The book presents details... -
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars by John Miller
RRP: $21.43$8.01Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of... -
Beauty and the Inferno by Oonagh Stransky 9780857050106
RRP: $21.43$14.43Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important... -
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: $21.43$15.15Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, SEA AND SARDINIA records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response to a new landscape and people and his uncanny ability to transmute the... -
Canterbury: History You Can See by H. M Lyle 9780752445380
RRP: $33.13$25.23This detailed history of Canterbury is told through its buildings from its Roman origins to the present day and includes sections on St Martin's church, St Augustine's abbey, the Cathedral, the Pilgrim inns, Royal Castle buildings, Georgian timber-framed... -
Vyborg 1944: The Last Soviet-Finnish Campaign on the Eastern Front by Bair Irincheev 9781912390274
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390274Author Bair IrincheevFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Summer: Vintage Minis by Laurie Lee
RRP: $11.68$8.70How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were... -
William Wallace by Andrew Fisher
$22.68William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the... -
1977 Punk London: The Roxy, The Vortex, Kings Road and Beyond by Derek Ridgers
RRP: $29.15$25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211446Author Derek RidgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing CultureWeight(grams) 690gDimensions(mm)... -
Clacton-on-Sea by Norman Jacobs 9780752418575
RRP: $25.33$18.76Clacton-on-Sea's motto Lux, Salubritas, Felicitas (Light, Health and Happiness), sums up the main reason for the town's existence. Born in 1871, the brainchild of Victorian entrepreneur Peter Bruff, it was created from nothing to become one of the... -
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946 by Martin Conway 9781845208219
$81.82The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that... -
One Night in Turin: The Inside Story of a World Cup that Changed our Footballing Nation Forever by Pete Davies 9780224083348
RRP: $29.23$21.35'This could well be the best book ever written about football' Time OutThe memoir behind the documentary One Night in Turin, the inside story of a World Cup that changed our footballing nation forever.It was the World Cup semi-finals. On 4th July, 1990,... -
The Man on a Donkey by H. F. M. Prescott
RRP: $33.13$23.95'The most immersive book I've ever read... Truly brings Tudor England to life' Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times 'One of the finest historical novels ever written' TLS A forgotten literary masterpiece, The Man on a Donkey is less about the great... -
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists by Lily Le Brun
RRP: $48.75$28.59*One of The Times Best Art Books of the Year*'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal'In her first, transporting book, Lily Le Brun sweeps the beaches of the past century of British art, collecting treasures... -
The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603 by Penry Williams 9780198228202
$113.22The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and...