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The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Burger, Adolf 9781399019156
RRP: €17.84€13.03One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war... -
King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: €13.08€8.63The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight... -
Blitz Britain: Manchester and Salford by Graham Phythian
RRP: €15.46€11.45In 1940, the Manchester and Salford Blitz saw the city and its surroundings targeted by the German Luftwaffe. The most destructive attack was launched in late December 1940; it is remembered today as 'the Christmas Blitz'. Nearly 800 people lost their... -
The Little History of Somerset by Mike Dean 9780750991278
RRP: €17.84€13.74More than 400 million years ago, the oldest rocks in Somerset were formed. On those rocks, a county was built over thousands of years; from prehistoric man and Roman invasion, through a Pitchfork Rebellion and two world wars to where we are today... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780192843104
RRP: €20.22€15.09A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, The Marshall Plan is an instant classic of Cold War literature. With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to... -
An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia by Desmond Seaward
RRP: €11.89€8.40"An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia" is the story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals,... -
The Batmaker of Copenhagen: The Story of Cricket's Second World War Hero by Tim Brooks 9781801506977
RRP: €23.79€16.99The Batmaker of Copenhagen is the inspiring story of a cricketing hero who defied the German occupation to keep cricket alive throughout the Nazi occupation of Denmark during the Second World War.With Copenhagen under the iron grip of the Gestapo, and... -
London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid by Ken Keable 9780850366556
RRP: €21.41€19.21The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they... -
The Sword in the Age of Chivalry by Ewart Oakeshott
RRP: €29.74€24.87A comprehensive history and typology of the European knightly sword from c.1050 to c.1550, that draws on evidence from literature and art as well as from archaeology. The resplendent image of the medieval knight is symbolised by his sword, a lethal... -
The Cecils: The Dynasty and Legacy of Lord Burghley by David Lee 9781399083775
RRP: €29.75€20.97The Cecils: The Dynasty and Legacy of Lord Burghley looks at the lives of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Chief Minister and Secretary of State and that of his son, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. Lord Burghley served three Tudor Monarchs... -
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook 9780300143218
€46.99In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook... -
Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford
RRP: €31.54€28.19In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But,... -
The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling by Norman Davis
RRP: €10.70€7.68The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of HenryVI,... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: €15.46€10.23'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian'Timely and so important . ... -
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: €13.08€9.25A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens,... -
Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 by Janet Burton 9780521377973
RRP: €45.21€39.87This book traces the development of monasticism in England, Scotland and Wales from the last half century of Anglo-Saxon England to 1300. It explores the nature of the impact of the Norman settlement on monastic life, and how Britain responded to new,... -
Reimagining Britain: Foundations for Hope by Justin Welby
RRP: €15.46€11.65Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sets out a radical vision for 21st century Britain in this updated paperback edition. It is now three years since Justin Welby first published his Reimagining Britain. The fundamental message of that book remains... -
Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660-1760 by J. V. Beckett 9780521090162
RRP: €36.88€27.19Economic historians have long appreciated the important role of the Lowther family in the developing Whitehaven from a tiny fishing village into a flourishing industrial centre. In Coal and Tobacco, Dr Beckett has attempted, by analysing the west... -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn 9781862076181
RRP: €11.89€8.60This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918... -
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity by Kolleen M. Guy
RRP: €32.73€32.05Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the... -
Scotland: Highlands, Islands, Lochs & Legends by Claudia Martin
RRP: €23.79€18.15Where in the world do passenger planes land on the beach each day? Where might you search for the world's most famous underwater monster? Where would you find a capital city with more listed buildings than anywhere else in the world? Yes, in Scotland of... -
The Colleges of Cambridge University by Andrew Hunter Blair 9780752479484
RRP: €19.03€14.58This is not just 'another book about Cambridge' but a unique publication that brings together all thirty-one colleges that comprise the world-famous University of Cambridge. Following a brief introduction and history of each college, there follows... -
The Kings and Queens of England and Great Britain Colouring Book by Joseph Stephen 9788412232578
RRP: €11.89€8.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788412232578Author Joseph StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Madeglobal PublishingPublisher Madeglobal PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 by Robert Colls 9780198208334
€25.31Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson
RRP: €29.75€21.44Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the greatest British art form ever invented, these... -
Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England by Eamon Duffy
RRP: €35.70€27.18Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution... -
The Islander: Complete and Unabridged by Garry Bannister 9780717157945
RRP: €14.27€11.01This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read. ... -
William the Conqueror by David Bates
RRP: €21.41€20.16A landmark reinterpretation of the life of William the Conqueror-a pivotal figure in British and European history"[The] definitive biography of the man who forever changed England with his invasion of 1066."-Tony Barber, "Best books of 2016," Financial... -
Charlie One: The True Story of an Irishman in the British Army and His Role in Covert Counter-Terrorism Operations in Northern Ireland by Sean Hartnett 9781785370854
RRP: €15.46€13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370854Author Sean HartnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945 by Florian Huber
RRP: €13.08€9.25The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: €24.98€21.86In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female... -
Scramble!: The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J R D 'Bob' Braham
RRP: €16.65€11.60J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker... -
Bayle, Jurieu, and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique by Mara Van der Lugt
€138.05Bayle, Jurieu and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique presents a new study of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696), with special reference to Bayle's polemical engagement with the theologian Pierre Jurieu. While recent years have... -
Haunted London Underground by David Brandon 9780752447469
RRP: €17.84€13.74London's Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings, particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto... -
A Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: €15.46€10.82In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: €17.84€13.03Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this,... -
Access to History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 for OCR Second Edition by Geoff Layton
€30.48Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
IRA Terror on Britain's Streets 1939-1940: The Wartime Bombing Campaign and Hitler Connection by Dick Kirby
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526786425Author Dick KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pen and Sword True CrimePublisher Pen and Sword True CrimeWeight(grams) 152g -
The Art of Dining: The History of Cooking and Eating by Sara Paston-Williams
€18.14A reissue of the classic reference work on the history of cooking and eating. Sara Paston-Williams has used the great wealth of National Trust houses and records to produce this wonderful book which is a feast for the eye as well as a fascinating guide...