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Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies
RRP: $38.98$28.55The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden 9780750995672
RRP: $33.13$26.01Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written... -
The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945 by John Foot
RRP: $33.13$23.95'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some... -
Insanitary City: Henry Littlejohn and the Condition of Edinburgh by Paul Laxton 9781859362204
RRP: $48.73$39.78Dr Henry Littlejohn's Report on the Sanitary Condition of Edinburgh (1865) was a landmark in urban management and public health administration. The Lancet described it as 'monumental'. The Report had a significance far beyond the boundaries of Edinburgh... -
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe by Chris Fowler 9780198832492
$96.17The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages... -
Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital by Franz Hessel 9781911344728
RRP: $19.48$13.07Take a walk around 1920s Berlin with one of its greatest luminaries. In this timeless guide, originally published in Germany in 1929, Franz Hessel invites his readers to join him on a stroll through Weimar-era Berlin, taking in some of the most... -
Chapter On Love by Miklos Szenkuthy 9781940625409
RRP: $40.95$30.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625409Author Miklos SzenkuthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Bosworth 1485: The Downfall of Richard III by Christopher Gravett
RRP: $33.13$23.95The battle of Bosworth was the culmination of the War of the Roses, the dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster that dominated England in the second half of the 15th century. Edward IV had secured the throne for the house of York, but... -
Southern Region Electro Diesel Locomotives and Units: A Pictorial Survey by David Cable 9781526720610
RRP: $58.50$27.26The electro-diesel locomotives and multiple units used by the Southern Region of British Railways, were unique to this region. The locomotives of class 73 were used extensively throughout the region, in particular on Gatwick Express services, as well as... -
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795: Light and Flame by Richard Butterwick
RRP: $58.50$57.04A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least... -
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection by Sam Apple 9781631493157
RRP: $44.83$34.22The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century. A Jewish homosexual living openly with his partner, he was also among the most despised figures in the Third Reich. Yet top Nazi... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton 9781838933173
RRP: $29.23$21.35What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: $68.23$60.16This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain by Wendy Webster 9780198735762
$74.65During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain... -
A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Ireland by Jonathan Bardon 9780717190003
RRP: $42.88$30.44A sweeping, accessible history of Ireland adapted from Dr Jonathan Bardon's BBC series This authoritative and comprehensive history of Ireland, written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and completed by his former editor Fergal Tobin, covers the entire history of... -
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
RRP: $29.23$21.35In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of... -
The Mythology of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: $21.43$14.14Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader: Shakespeare's hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunderstood king. This one man's character and actions have divided historians and the controversy has always... -
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82 by John Walker 9781032451633
RRP: $243.75$210.33This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test... -
The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment by Charly Coleman
RRP: $54.58$47.07How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic... -
A History of Norfolk by Chris Barringer 9781859362334
RRP: $48.75$36.31The story of Norfolk and its people began almost a million years ago on the foreshore at Happisburgh. It has a history stretching back into the dimmest mists of time, across whose soil some of our most celebrated national fi gures have walked - from... -
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola 9780197647554
RRP: $48.73$43.91Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large... -
Prince Harry: The Inside Story by Duncan Larcombe 9780008196486
RRP: $23.38$17.55** Now updated to cover Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement. ** Prince Henry of Wales has emerged as the unexpected jewel in the crown of the modern British monarchy. Despite his unruly antics, for which he's made headlines all over the world, Harry has... -
Shaping the Nation: England 1360-1461 by Gerald Harriss
$113.69The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald... -
Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
RRP: $17.53$12.581215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the... -
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (1): Nationalist Forces by Alejandro De Quesada
RRP: $23.38$16.44The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash of 20th-century ideologies, between the rebel Nationalist army led by General Franco (right-wing, and... -
A University Education by David Willetts
RRP: $38.98$28.63Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England, entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools--a striking theme of the book. This important book first... -
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte
RRP: $39.00$27.87According to legend, the English landscape - so calm on the surface - is really the Devil's work. Cloven Country tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil's hideous strength laid down great roads in one night,... -
The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300 by Katrin Kania
RRP: $25.33$16.54To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this complex and dynamic period in England. Exploring a wide... -
Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rouse
RRP: $57.51$52.94This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history... -
The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways by Terry Coleman
RRP: $25.33$17.73This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic... -
County Durham Folk Tales by Adam Bushnell 9780750981507
RRP: $19.48$14.72Storyteller and author Adam Bushnell brings together stories from the rugged coastlines, limestone cliffs, remote moorland, pastoral dales and settled coalfields of County Durham. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet the evil fairies of... -
From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2 by Charles J. Dick
$128.88By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first... -
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition by Sian Evans
RRP: $25.33$16.77'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLSQueen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs... -
The Tyne Bridge: Icon of North-East England by Paul Brown
RRP: $33.13$29.85The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928 by King George V, is one of Britain's most iconic structures, a Grade II* listed building. Linking Newcastle and Gateshead, this symbol of Tyneside and the region is also a monument to the Tyne's industrial past. Paul... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: $37.03$28.45A journey into the extraordinary, vibrant world of Black African London which is shaping modern Britain. What makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without... -
A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s by Dervla Murphy 9781780600116
RRP: $29.23$19.11A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland in order to try and sort out her own... -
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones
RRP: $29.23$21.35Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary... -
Croydon and Waddon by Raymond Wheeler 9780752443010
RRP: $29.23$22.52All aspects of everyday life are recorded here, from shops, businesses, churches and schools to work and leisure, day trips and days off. The landscapes and landmarks of the town and its surrounding areas are captured in this valuable historical record... -
Churchill's Arctic Convoys: Strength Triumphs Over Adversity by Smith, William 9781399072298
RRP: $48.75$34.36The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between...