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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when... -
The First Royal Media War: Edward VIII, The Abdication and the Press by Adrian Phillips 9781399065412
RRP: £25.00£17.62The abdication crisis of 1936 demolished the wall of silent deference that had protected the British royal family from press comment and intrusion since the days of Queen Victoria. King Edward VIII was a child of the burgeoning age of media and the first... -
Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284 by Olivier Hekster
RRP: £29.99£27.79This was a time of civil war, anarchy, intrigue, and assassination. Between 193 and 284 the Roman Empire knew more than twenty-five emperors, and an equal number of usurpers. All of them had some measure of success, several of them often ruling different... -
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
RRP: £18.99£15.63In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the... -
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was... -
Bobby Sands - New Edition: Nothing But an Unfinished Song by Denis O'Hearn
RRP: £18.99£12.75This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a... -
A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps by John Dormandy 9781781556870
RRP: £30.00£29.47Savoy and its Alps were for seven centuries an independent state at the centre of Europe, separating France from the patchwork of principalities that made up Italy. Merchants, clerics, pilgrims, diplomats as well as privileged young Englishmen on the... -
Forgotten War: The British Empire and Commonwealth’s Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945 by Brian E. Walter 9781636243573
RRP: £25.00£23.23The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major... -
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson
RRP: £22.99£17.28The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration,... -
Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay
RRP: £24.95£17.34First published in 2000, 'Northern Protestants - An Unsettled People' was an instant success and is widely recognised as a ground-breaking book. Based on over sixty in-depth interviews with a wide range of northern Protestants, Susan McKay presents an... -
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning 9780521558785
RRP: £15.99£13.90The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organised atrocity on a mass scale. This authoritative account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from 1939 to 1942 seeks to answer some... -
Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties by Sheila Rowbotham
£17.13At the beginning of the decade renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixties she was a seasoned political... -
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski 9780007123742
RRP: £19.99£13.33Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in... -
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: £9.99£7.11The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND... -
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
RRP: £18.99£13.61Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeSUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th... -
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an... -
Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition by Carolyn Gossage 9781550023688
£14.33Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the... -
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99£14.01'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one... -
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
RRP: £10.99£7.77The legendary story of a resistance hero'Full of death and excitement' - Sunday Times'Unique' - TLSGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the... -
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska 9781786078926
RRP: £20.00£13.50WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times... -
24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Dr Philip Matyszak 9781782438564
RRP: £12.99£8.73Walk a day in a Roman’s sandals.What was it like to live in one of the ancient world’s most powerful and bustling cities – one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, bestselling... -
A Monarch in the Making: From Accession to Coronation by Pamela Hartshorne 9781909741881
RRP: £24.95£15.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741881Author Pamela HartshorneFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 740g -
Recreating the Past by Victor Ambrus
RRP: £17.99£13.64Since 1994, when the first Time Team programme was broadcast, archaeology has been brought to life for millions of people. This book combines the talents of two of the programme's key players in an exciting series of reconstructions. Victor Ambrus has... -
Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday TimesThe Allied victory in 1945 - though comprehensive - was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £22.00£17.36Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each... -
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon 9780571064106
RRP: £9.99£6.70'It is my own story I am trying to tell, and as such it must be received; those who expect a universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere.'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first published in 1930, is Siegfried Sassoon's fictionalized... -
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height... -
A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the... -
Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany by Alistair Moffat 9781780278766
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art,... -
The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present by Professor Robert Aldrich
RRP: £24.99£23.26The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99£9.80Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen 9781788163439
RRP: £14.99£10.95LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden,... -
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H. Davidson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the charachter traits of not only the well known but also the lesser... -
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King 9780393351866
RRP: £13.99£12.61When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres... -
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £14.99£13.09Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original,... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: £12.99£9.26Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
World History by Philip Parker
RRP: £17.99£13.35The full story of human endeavour - complete with its dramas, wars, schemes, discoveries, and personalities - is laid out before you in this illustrated guide to the history of our world.Who were the Mongols, the Maya, or Isis? How far did the Roman or... -
Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia by Philipp Blom
RRP: £34.95£24.00Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these... -
The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Stuart Woolf
RRP: £41.99£36.75First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking...