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The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen 9781788163439
RRP: €17.84€13.22LONGLISTED 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,... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad
RRP: €23.80€17.27'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of The Eternal City, and global civilization... -
Blyth by Blyth Local Studies Group 9780752407739
RRP: €15.46€11.75This 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
€31.45Boudica, 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... -
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: €23.76€15.26Apologies 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 -
Terry Jones' Barbarians by Alan Ereira
RRP: €20.22€14.61Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and... -
The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: €15.46€13.64An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: €15.46€5.72Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year... -
The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities by Brian Ladd
RRP: €30.94€30.05Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770-1807 Eleanor Trevena 9781398345393
€25.18Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne 9781035016563
RRP: €13.08€9.20The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner of the Parlimentary Book AwardsA New... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: €40.40€34.77"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project... -
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot by Robert Knapp
RRP: €15.46€11.11Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace lives... -
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
RRP: €22.60€16.20Mark 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... -
William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
RRP: €22.60€15.12The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. Prime minister at the... -
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All by Peter Linebaugh 9780520260009
RRP: €29.75€23.31This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are being abridged... -
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: €23.80€17.48An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back... -
Hybrid Hate: Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race by Tudor Parfitt
RRP: €36.88€27.67Hybrid 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... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: €13.08€8.97After 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... -
Major and Mrs.Holt's Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient by Tonie Holt 9780850525519
RRP: €20.22€15.09Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area. This book, part of a new series of guides, is... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: €42.83€40.45The 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 Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 by Todd M. Endelman
RRP: €32.13€25.54In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the... -
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine by Timothy Snyder 9780300125993
€31.32The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles-intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong... -
The Flag: The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior by Andrew Richards 9781612007496
RRP: €15.46€11.11This book describes the wartime experiences of Reverend David Railton, MC, who was a chaplain on the Western Front during WWI. As a chaplain, Railton supported soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to the... -
The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 by T. C. W. Blanning 9780199265619
€80.34In 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... -
Mail Obsession: A Journey Round Britain by Postcode Mark Mason 9781780228334
RRP: €11.89€7.32'FASCINATING' Daily Mail'FULL OF AMAZING FACTS' The QI ElvesEach of the United Kingdom's 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and treasure. Mark Mason has embarked on a tour of the country, immersing himself in... -
The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944 by Henry Rousso
RRP: €38.02€30.43From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation-a nation where reality... -
Operation Allied Force Volume 2: Air War Over Serbia, 1999 by Bojan Dimitrejevic
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies 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 -
Old Ireland in Colour 2 by John Breslin
RRP: €26.17€22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374111Author John BreslinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome: A Hands-on Guide by Philip Matyszak 9780500026410
RRP: €17.84€11.96Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it - and why. Magic was everywhere in the ancient world. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. Magic... -
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein by Niall Barr
RRP: €17.84€13.22In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's... -
The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to industrial revolution by Alan Kidd 9781859362396
RRP: €15.46€10.94This 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
€42.15The 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... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: €13.08€7.94'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' - Dan Snow'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who... -
Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
RRP: €17.84€13.45At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the... -
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: €22.60€16.67Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: €22.60€17.26Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and... -
Secret War Heroes by Marcus Binney
RRP: €13.08€9.06Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and... -
Visit Britain's Seaside Piers: A guidebook and logbook for visiting 61 piers in England, Wales and Scotland: 2023 by Heritage Hunter 9781905315826
€9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905315826Author Heritage HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Heritage HunterPublisher Prepare to Publish Ltd -
The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch 9780140449051
RRP: €20.22€14.61Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine...