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Life On Air: A History of Radio Four by David Hendy 9780199550241
RRP: $33.13$26.01Radio Four has been described as 'the greatest broadcasting channel in the world', the 'heartbeat of the BBC', a cultural icon of Britishness, and the voice of Middle England. Defined by its rich mix, encompassing everything from journalism and drama to... -
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
RRP: $21.43$15.15'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)Selected as a Book of... -
Wings Over Water: The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: $19.48$13.07Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, that captivated both sides of the Atlantic. While there were many other aviation competitions, the Schneider proved to be, after a rocky start, by... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: $39.00$28.65What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: $25.33$16.69Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and... -
Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780471686132
$26.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471686132Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799 by Joseph Clarke 9780521878500
RRP: $175.50$151.11From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the coming of Napoleon ten years later, the commemoration of the dead was a recurring theme during the French Revolution. Based on extensive research across a wide range of sources, this book is the first... -
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn
RRP: $63.36$58.13The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his... -
Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands by Stephen Wynn
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The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c.1100-c.1300 by Linda M. Paterson 9780521558327
RRP: $60.43$50.35Occitania, known today as the 'south of France', had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created 'courtly love' and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries; and its... -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault 9780679721109
$23.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721109Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe by Gábor Ágoston 9780691205397
RRP: $48.75$38.20A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern EuropeThe Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through sheer military might, and whose dynasty was peripheral to those of... -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766
RRP: $21.43$14.27A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with... -
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence by David Boulton 9781914427251
RRP: $77.90$71.45This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries.The... -
Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Salway
RRP: $17.53$12.58For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor... -
English Garden Eccentrics - Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries by Todd Longstaffe-gowa
RRP: $58.50$50.41A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers... -
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis
RRP: $25.33$17.73Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal... -
Operation Market-garden Then and Now: v. 2 by Karel Margry 9781870067454
RRP: $87.65$73.57Volume 2 of this two-volume history of Operation "Market-Garden" continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the vital bridges there over the Waal river. But at... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
Beneath the Big Top: A Social History of the Circus in Britain by Steve Ward 9781783030491
RRP: $29.23$22.64Beneath the Big Top is a social history of the circus, from its ancient roots to the rise of the 'modern' tented travelling shows. A performer and founder of a circus group, Steve Ward draws on eye-witness accounts and contemporary interviews to explore... -
Royal Marines Commandos by John Parker
RRP: $21.43$14.43The Royal Marines were originally formed under the auspices of the Royal Navy to guard its sailing ships from harm. They are proud of their history and origins but the Navy heritage is fading. John Parker charts how the units have moved away from their... -
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova 9781857152906
RRP: $39.00$29.82The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in him memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was diplomat, business... -
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century: The British Abroad by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: $29.23$22.52Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy, but also the Low Countries, Germany,... -
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $25.33$16.69It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and... -
Derby Through its Streets by Maxwell Craven 9781905769544
RRP: $33.13$28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769544Author Maxwell CravenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot
RRP: $38.98$30.38The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this... -
Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great by Plutarch
RRP: $27.28$19.01Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the... -
Hartlepool 1946-1997 by Douglas R. P. Ferriday 9780752407951
RRP: $29.23$22.52This 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 people.Book InformationISBN 9780752407951Author Douglas... -
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $21.43$15.15After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation... -
A Concise History of Portugal by David Birmingham
RRP: $44.83$33.93This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. It remains the standard single-volume... -
The Trigger: The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip - the Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher
RRP: $21.43$15.15'The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for modern history. It was a young teenage boy named... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520401495
RRP: $29.23$23.69"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker"The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made... -
Arthurian Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by Prof Raluca Radulescu
RRP: $21.43$13.07Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Many medieval writers, especially from France and Wales, wrote stories about the great British leader, King Arthur. Legends, folklore and myths from this period come together to paint a picture of who he was with some... -
In Search Of The First Civilizations by Michael Wood
RRP: $31.18$22.64Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient... -
Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles by Emma Wells
RRP: $38.98$33.97This book leads the modern traveller along some of the key medieval walking routes of England, Scotland and Wales, taking in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and Lindisfarne, and out-of-the-way places along paths not so widely travelled. Each route... -
Siege Warfare during the Crusades by Michael S Fulton 9781526718655
RRP: $58.50$42.80Sieges played a key role in the crusades, but they tend to be overshadowed by the famous battles fought between the Franks and the Muslims, and no detailed study of the subject has been published in recent times. So Michael Fulton's graphic, wide-ranging... -
On Dangerous Ground by Maire Comerford 9781843518198
RRP: $35.10$29.02On Dangerous Ground is the revolutionary period memoir of Republican Maire Comerford (1893-1982). This striking memoir, one of the last of its era, includes Comerford's original text, written mainly in the 1940s and '50s, and new material unearthed from... -
Quinn by Trevor Birney 9781785374593
RRP: $19.48$15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374593Author Trevor BirneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill by Allen Packwood
RRP: $44.83$38.92Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this... -
Russia: A History by Gregory L. Freeze
RRP: $33.13$23.95The history of Russia - from Kievan Rus to Vladimir Putin Russia: A History cuts through the myths and mystery that have surrounded Russia from its earliest days, with startling revelations from classified archives that until comparatively recently...