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A Train of Powder by Rebecca West 9781566633192
RRP: $25.33$18.74Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and... -
William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by John van der Kiste
RRP: $31.18$23.89Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the... -
Speeches, 1997-2006 by Gordon Brown 9780747588375
RRP: $58.50$7.94Speeches, 1997-2006, will collect all Gordon Brown's major speeches on a broad range of topics ranging from Britishness and fairness, through the economy and public services, to child poverty and environmental issues. They reflect a formidable and widely... -
Journey into the Mind's Eye by Lesley Blanch
RRP: $29.23$19.11Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate... -
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
RRP: $25.33$16.69The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to... -
The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History by Dan Jackson
RRP: $48.75$43.74The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but they've made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets out to recover this lost history, exploring the deep roots of Northumbrian culture-hard work and heavy drinking,... -
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $25.33$17.73A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid and... -
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $29.23$9.18The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: $25.33$17.73Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph... -
Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind by Sean Longden
RRP: $25.33$16.77THE TRUE STORY OF THE 41,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK, MAY 1940'Meticulously researched, very well written and deeply moving' Andrew Roberts'Few readers will be unmoved by Sean Longden's account' Dominic... -
Wartime Scrapbook: the Home Front 1939-1945 by Robert Opie 9780954795443
RRP: $29.15$21.02With the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War looming, this new edition of the Wartime Scrapbook revives memories of this evocative time in Britain's history. Life on the home front revolved around rationing, blackouts, and air raid... -
Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922: A Documentary History by Jonathan Daly
RRP: $38.98$32.06Drawing on newly available Russian sources--many of which appear in English for the first time here--this volume covers a broad array of topics, including the Bolshevik rise to power and World War I as the catalyst and cradle, respectively, of the... -
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
RRP: $33.13$24.32Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's Rasputin is the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.Nearly a century after his murder,... -
Ten Fighter Boys by Wing Commander Athol Forbes, D.F.C. 9780007236930 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$3.82The extraordinary stories of ten fighter pilots, told in their very own words during the Second World War. First published by Collins in 1942, this utterly compelling collection of first-hand accounts of ten fighter pilots' experiences at the... -
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim
RRP: $48.75$35.14The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the... -
Queen Elizabeth I Book of Days by Tudor Times 9781913134860
RRP: $29.25$21.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913134860Author Tudor TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Trafalgar: The men, the battle, the storm by Tim Clayton
RRP: $29.23$19.11Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson.On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided... -
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately
RRP: $33.13$23.95Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. In his remarkably ambitious and powerful narrative, historian Robert... -
Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire: Terrors and Torments, Diseases and Deaths by Terry Deary
RRP: $19.48$13.26DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for... -
Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party by Frank McDonough 9781408269213
RRP: $72.13$69.69Now fully revised and reformatted, Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party is an indispensible guide to the history of the Nazi party between its initial electoral breakthrough in 1930 and its victory in 1933. Arguing that the Nazis owed their success as... -
The Glorious Revolution: 1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty by Edward Vallance
RRP: $25.33$16.77In 1688, a group of leading politicians invited the Dutch prince William of Orange over to England to challenge the rule of the catholic James II. When James's army deserted him he fled to France, leaving the throne open to William and Mary. During the... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field 9781789294163 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$5.17An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field
RRP: $15.58$6.84An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book... -
The Last Man in Russia: And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Wonderful ... These are the chronicles of a writer who truly knows Russia' New York TimesAward-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man,... -
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani 9781787389328
RRP: $29.23$26.60An alternative account of the EU as a racialised project The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history-in medieval times, it was synonymous with... -
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf 9780192895172
RRP: $29.23$21.35The complete history of the Roman Empire - how it was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects, from the eighth century BCE to the dawn of the Middle Ages. Rome in the archaic age was a minor... -
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
RRP: $17.53$12.58Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great... -
The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
RRP: $21.43$15.15The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly... -
Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain by Philip Walling
RRP: $19.48$13.86Sheep are the thread that runs through the history of the English countryside. Our fortunes were once founded on sheep, and this book tells a story of wool and money and history, of merchants and farmers and shepherds, of English yeomen and how they got... -
Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953 Second Edition by Chris Corin
$69.87Depend on SHP's comprehensive and best-selling core texts to enrich your understanding of A Level History.SHP Advanced History Core Texts are the Schools History Project's acclaimed books for A level History. They offer:- clear and penetrating narrative... -
The British Army: A New Short History by Ian F. W. Beckett 9780198871040
RRP: $39.00$27.87The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present. This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the... -
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam by Gar Alperovitz 9780745309477
RRP: $58.48$38.61This book provides important new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war in Japan, as was said at the time, but to 'make the Russians more manageable'. Drawing on recently... -
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown by Katie Nicholl
RRP: $42.90$30.46For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her... -
Greek Lives by Plutarch
RRP: $21.43$15.54Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive... -
Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $21.43$15.54'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: $25.33$16.69The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work... -
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
RRP: $25.33$17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400692Author James HawesFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 22mm -
A Concise History of Bulgaria by R. J. Crampton
RRP: $44.83$36.35Bulgaria became a member of the European Union in 2007, yet its history is amongst the least well known in the rest of the continent. R. J. Crampton provides here a general introduction to this country at the cross-roads of Christendom and Islam. The... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: $35.08$31.01Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black... -
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West
RRP: $48.75$43.27**Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and...