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CCEA A2-level History Student Guide: Clash of Ideologies in Europe (1900-2000) by Henry Jefferies
£11.72Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right by Alan Cromartie 9780199236237
RRP: £51.00£50.46This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession,... -
Europe Between the Wars by Martin Kitchen
RRP: £47.99£46.38Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and... -
Armenian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Armenia and the Armenian Genocide by Captivating History 9781647482220
RRP: £29.99£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647482220Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams 9781469663685
RRP: £24.95£22.48Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism... -
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door by Witold Szablowski 9781837730193
RRP: £20.00£13.86'A spicy and original romp through Russian history' ROBERT SERVICE'Poignant, comical, and in the best sense disturbing' PAUL FREEDMAN, AUTHOR OF TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA'This wickedly delicious tale uncovers the secret, gustatory history of... -
The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 by Zara Steiner
RRP: £53.00£46.03The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges... -
Blyth by Blyth Local Studies Group 9780752407739
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and peopleBook InformationISBN 9780752407739Author Blyth Local... -
Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen by Richard Hingley 9781852855161
£26.43Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion... -
The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers by Alistair Moffat 9781780274454
RRP: £10.99£7.32From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and... -
The Roman Forum by David Watkin
RRP: £8.99£6.45There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the... -
History of England: A Captivating Guide to English History, Starting from Antiquity through the Rule of the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, and Tudors to the End of World War 2 by Captivating History 9781647482787
RRP: £19.97£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647482787Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 200g -
Myth and Thought among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £28.00£21.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951603Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid by David Wragg
RRP: £9.99£5.96The daring British air raid that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.In November 1940 Britain was isolated in its stand against Nazi Germany and its ally, Italy. The country could not afford to lose control of the Mediterranean, but the Royal... -
Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party by Samuel Earle 9781398518537
RRP: £10.99£7.00'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ________________________________________________Why do... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock 9780199664078
RRP: £22.49£15.94The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite... -
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 1: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews by Leon Poliakov
RRP: £31.00£27.76Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly... -
The Ancient Greeks For Dummies by Stephen Batchelor 9780470987872
RRP: £18.99£13.15The civilisation of the Ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science and arts of Western culture. As well as instigating itself as the birthplace of the Olympics, Ancient Greece is... -
The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
RRP: £14.99£9.80The new instalment in T&H's successful myths series (after The Greek and Roman Myths and The Egyptian Myths) introduces the world of the Celts, their gods and goddesses, heroes, monsters and villains. As well as vividly exploring the tales, the author... -
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: £18.99£14.01'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead... -
Hybrid Hate: Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race by Tudor Parfitt
RRP: £30.99£23.25Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt... -
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin
RRP: £17.99£15.39This compact yet comprehensive history brings ancient Greek civilization alive, from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. "A highly readable account of ancient Greece."-Kirkus Reviews Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: £10.99£7.32After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club in 2007, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable wine, cheap property and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: £35.99£33.99The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power,... -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
RRP: £20.00£15.44For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, The Times Literary SupplementFor the Western... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
RRP: £35.00£25.29The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of... -
How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours by Harry Mount
RRP: £12.99£9.09Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first... -
The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 by T. C. W. Blanning 9780199265619
£67.51In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T. C. W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to... -
The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy
RRP: £14.99£10.95Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and... -
Operation Allied Force Volume 2: Air War Over Serbia, 1999 by Bojan Dimitrejevic
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070654Author Bojan DimitrejevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door... -
Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson
RRP: £25.00£16.99Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building... -
Walthamstow by Keith Romig 9780752403595
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752403595Author Keith... -
The Strange Laws Of Old England by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: £10.99£7.40Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed... -
The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to industrial revolution by Alan Kidd 9781859362396
RRP: £12.99£9.09This fascinating book, by a leading historian of the city, tells Manchester's story from the Romans to the first steam-powered factories, showing how the centuries before the Industrial Revolution formed the foundation for the city's later greatness. ... -
The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 by T. C. W. Blanning
£35.42The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T.C.W. Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including...