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Vaughan Williams by Eric Saylor
RRP: €38.66€33.81A new biography of which paints the most well-rounded and factually accurate portrait of the composer to date Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: €26.18€17.80'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: €15.46€8.94At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions,... -
Jet Man: Frank Whittle's Battle to Revolutionise Flight by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: €35.70€25.41The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts new light on the intense, heroic character of Frank... -
Records of the Medieval Sword by Ewart Oakeshott
RRP: €35.70€30.76The origins, development and use of the two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, from the great migrations to the Renaissance. Forty years of intensive research into the specialised subject of the straight two-edged knightly sword of the... -
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
RRP: €13.08€8.71A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin,... -
Byzantine Art by Mr Robin Cormack
RRP: €27.95€19.77The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and... -
A Bitter Winter: The Irish Civil War, 1922-23: 2022 by Colum Kenny
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934378Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
The People's War: Britain 1939-1945 by Angus Calder
RRP: €33.31€23.81The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the... -
Killer of Kings by Matthew Harffy
RRP: €10.70€7.68AD 636. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens. But before Beobrand can embark on his bloodfeud, King Oswald orders him southward, to escort... -
Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds 9781788543453
RRP: €15.46€10.82The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to... -
Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance by Ioanna Iordanou
RRP: €48.18€46.45Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a... -
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: €20.22€14.84Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was... -
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature by Sarah Iles Johnston
€21.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404277Author Sarah Iles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798-1803 by John Gibney 9781526751454
RRP: €15.46€10.82The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the creation of the Orange Order, and the greatest bloodletting in modern Irish... -
Around Rhondda Fawr by Suzanne E. Evans 9780752415901
RRP: €15.46€11.45This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752415901Author Suzanne E... -
The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland by Tim Clarkson
RRP: €23.80€16.72The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or... -
Voices from History: East London Suffragettes by Rosemary Taylor
RRP: €11.89€8.98In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London - but Sylvia refused... -
Lewis Man by Peter May 9781529416817
RRP: €13.08€8.81THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
RRP: €35.70€25.41Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on... -
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger 9780198742791
€64.87In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of... -
Royal Scrapbook by Robert Opie
RRP: €17.79€12.83All the pomp and circumstance of over 100 years of royal events come together in this colourful and evocative Royal Scrapbook, which celebrates the coronations, weddings and jubilees over five reigns, beginning with Queen Victoria's Diamond jubilee and... -
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate Williams
RRP: €13.08€9.25___________________________________'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily TelegraphA Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.Mary, Queen... -
Berlin Then and Now (R): Damals und Heute by Nick Gay
RRP: €23.80€17.06Berlin Then and Now captures the stark contrast between what came before and after the great conflicts of the twentieth century, using archival photographs of the city's grand buildings, monuments, and boulevards alongside modern views of the same scenes... -
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: €13.08€9.25The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War by Giles Milton
RRP: €29.75€19.97'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller he is' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyBerlin was in ruins... -
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
RRP: €23.80€16.72The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to... -
Played in Glasgow: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play by Ged O'Brien 9780954744557
RRP: €17.84€14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954744557Author Ged O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Malavan MediaPublisher Malavan Media -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: €26.17€21.56A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau... -
Lord of the Isle: The Extravagent Life and Times of Colin Tennant (Lord Glenconner) by Nicholas Courtney 9781903071649
RRP: €23.80€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071649Author Nicholas CourtneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer 9780192890733
RRP: €37.47€26.11Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe. The Pope at War is the third in a trilogy of books about the papacy's response to the... -
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
RRP: €15.46€10.82A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive... You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and... -
King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World by Max Decharne 9781913172602
RRP: €29.75€22.16The King's Road in Chelsea was at the epicentre of not one, but two worldwide cultural shifts. In the mid-sixties, it became a focal point and shop window for the new 'swinging' London, encompassing music, theatre, the visual arts, fashion and much more... -
DK Eyewitness Greek Islands by DK Eyewitness 9780241358368
RRP: €17.84€16.01Hundreds of irresistible islands awaiting exploration.Whether you want to follow in the footsteps of legendary heroes at the Minoan palace, swim in the turquoise waters of idyllic Zakynthos bay or watch the sun set over Corfu from Kaiser's throne, your... -
A People’s Tragedy: Studies in Reformation by Professor Eamon Duffy
RRP: €23.80€17.01As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin... -
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies
RRP: €29.75€28.49A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."-William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of... -
History+ for Edexcel A Level: Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe by Mark Gosling
€48.66Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert... -
The Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation, 1945–1955 by Stefan Karner 9781793626608
RRP: €35.70€31.75Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret... -
The New Romanian Cinema by Dana Duma
RRP: €113.05€106.96Films such as Occident, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Police, Adjective and If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle have brought Romanian cinema from relative obscurity into the limelight of the international festival circuit and to the... -
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh 9781859845769
RRP: €36.88€34.55Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.Rather it evidently served...