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In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood
RRP: €15.46€10.82Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman... -
Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David 9780141005553
RRP: €17.84€13.03In Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign,when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people... -
A New Nobility of Blood and Soil by R Walther Darré 9781953730497
RRP: €27.22€26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730497Author R Walther Darr Format PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Last Hours in Paris: Set in WW2 and the Liberation, a powerful novel of love, retribution and atonement by Ruth Druart
RRP: €20.22€14.21'Wonderful... A heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness' JILL MANSELL 'A tender yet thrilling story of love and family secrets in time of war' RACHEL HORE 'I was so engrossed. Wonderful, moving and uplifting' LESLEY PEARSE'Love, loss,... -
Autumntide of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
RRP: €74.97€74.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283131Author Graeme SmallFormat HardbackPage Count 616Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide by Ernle Bradford 9781497637863
RRP: €21.36€16.42The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had... -
Naval Battle of Crete 1941: The Royal Navy at Breaking Point by Angus Konstam
RRP: €20.22€14.61A fascinating account of an often overlooked naval action of World War II, and one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Royal Navy. In April 1941, following the Axis invasion of Greece, the British Mediterranean Fleet was ordered to... -
Maps of London and Beyond by Adam Dant
RRP: €35.70€26.12A spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant's fine art maps giving a unique view of our history and life today. Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London's past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, witty and... -
Women in the War by Lucy Fisher 9780008456115
RRP: €23.80€21.44'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL ... -
Sussex, Kent and Surrey 1939 by Richard Wyndham
RRP: €11.89€8.33A remarkable and eccentric insight into the south east of England in the pre-war period. Richard Wyndham's 'last look round' was a tour taken immediately before the Second World War in 1939 and was originally published in the following year as... -
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: €20.22€13.73Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere, Athenais... -
Queen Victoria's Children by John van der Kiste 9780752454726
RRP: €11.89€8.98Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by... -
About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles by Dr Tim Cole
RRP: €13.08€9.97A 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... -
On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940 -46 by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg 9781903155653
RRP: €19.04€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155653Author Mathilde Wolff-MonckebergFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 192mm *... -
London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City by Stephen Brooke 9780198862888
RRP: €41.65€35.82In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting... -
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury by Marjorie Garber 9780300267563
RRP: €29.75€24.16The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."-Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and... -
Thurcroft: A Village and the Miners' Strike: An Oral History by the People of Thurcroft by Peter Gibbon 9780851248363
€13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248363Author Peter GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
The Kings & Queens of Wales by Timothy Venning
RRP: €13.08€8.63The Welsh kings and queens who ruled prior to the Norman Conquest of Wales are shrouded in mystery. Most of what we know is from legend, names in annals, and from their opponents. This book sets out to identify what we know or can reasonably surmise... -
A History of Roman Britain by Peter Salway 9780192801388
RRP: €23.79€17.42'One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway's Monumental Study' Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen
RRP: €20.22€14.61Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now... -
The Oxford History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes
RRP: €20.22€14.61This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which saw the creation of western... -
A Century of Burnley: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Chris Makepeace
RRP: €19.03€14.58A Century of Barnsley offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Barnsley's recent history are... -
Inventory: A Family Portrait of Derry’s Troubled Past by Darran Anderson
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Astonishing... A marvellous poetic reminder that every place is a universe of magical possibility to the perceptive mind' Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson's grandfathers skirted the Second World... -
Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe
RRP: €21.41€16.71A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising-Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary... -
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
RRP: €15.46€13.64A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the... -
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schloegel 9781789146776
RRP: €15.41€10.79In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, now available in paperback, Karl Schloegel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe's borderland and in Russia's shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the... -
The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
RRP: €29.75€22.54A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the 14th century caused the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. One third of the people in Europe were killed over a period of just three years, and there was social and... -
The Truth About St. Kilda: An Islander's Memoir by Donald Gillies
RRP: €11.89€8.32The Truth about St Kilda is a unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the... -
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock 9780141390697
€23.15We are all familiar with the legendary tales of King Arthur: the sword in the stone, the Holy Grail, the great deeds and high enchantments. But what evidence is there for a real historical figure beneath the myth and romance? This book assembles a wealth... -
Blackpool: Britain in Old Photographs by Catherine Rothwell
RRP: €17.84€13.74There can be no better example of Victorian enterprise than the amazing success story of Blackpool whose pioneering spirit embodied all the unflagging, indomitable confidence of that age - "He who dares wins". This was the watchword, and bold publicity... -
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne Murphy
RRP: €35.70€28.19An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state"The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to... -
Hampshire: through writers' eyes by Alastair Langlands
RRP: €15.46€10.23Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness. Those rounded chalk hills have... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
Dublin Then and Now (R) by Lisa Marie Griffith
RRP: €20.22€14.84Dublin Then and Now matches archival images with contemporary views to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.Dublin's rich architectural heritage ranges from medieval castles and cathedrals to a wealth of elegant Georgian townhouses... -
Hitler's Eastern Legions 1942-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: €17.84€13.98Between 1941-45, the Germans recruited around 175,000 men from a number of minorities in the USSR, distinguishing between 'Turkomans' (predominantly Muslims) and 'Caucasians' (predominantly Orthodox Christians). Of these, many formed rear-area auxiliary... -
Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell
RRP: €15.46€10.82Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. In Jonathan Powell's masterly account we learn just how close the talks leading to the... -
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham 9780199654383
RRP: €61.88€44.83The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound... -
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
RRP: €23.80€15.87An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully... -
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
RRP: €14.27€12.08A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus-from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election"Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible, and by showing... -
Mary Ann Cotton: The West Auckland Borgia by Martin Connolly 9781473876200
RRP: €17.84€13.03A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when...