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The Royal Line of Succession by Dulcie M. Ashdown
RRP: £6.00£4.48The best-selling illustrated guide to the British Monarchy and the succession process, updated and redesigned for 2018. Queen Elizabeth II is descended from King Egbert through 12 centuries of monarchs. Showcasing all the family trees, from the... -
Counting One's Blessings: The Collected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross 9780330535779
£20.40One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Queen... -
UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now by Roger A. Freeman 9780900913808
RRP: £24.95£20.51Charged primarily with the support of ground forces in the invasion of Normandy, the Ninth fielded a variety of aircraft - liaison, fighter, bomber and troop carrier - and operated from over 60 airfields in Britain. In this work, they are explored and... -
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy by Emmet Scott 9780578094182
RRP: £13.99£9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578094182Author Emmet ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter... -
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr 9781529381573
RRP: £20.00£13.75'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle ~~~~~ The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale... -
Hadrian's Wall: Creating Division by Matthew Symonds
RRP: £19.99£16.54Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation... -
Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 by Professor Mack P. Holt 9780198731658
RRP: £36.99£28.51This volume makes accessible some of the most recent research of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in France. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1648, each chapter focuses on a specific area... -
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by James Romm
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079674Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Jersey: The Hidden Histories by Paul Darroch 9781906641832
£17.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906641832Author Paul DarrochFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Seaflower BooksPublisher Ex Libris Press -
Türkiye: Cycling Through a Country’s First Century by Julian Sayarer 9781529429954
RRP: £25.00£16.78"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The best travelogues should make you question your... -
Prison Notebooks: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: £80.00£64.79Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Based on the authoritative Italian edition of Gramsci's work, Quaderni del Carcere, this comprehensive... -
The French Mind: A Cultural History of an Exceptional People by Peter Watson 9781398511507
RRP: £16.99£13.65'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and... -
The Witches of St Osyth by Marion Gibson
RRP: £30.00£25.95An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early... -
The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
RRP: £14.99£13.03A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world... -
The French Revolution, 1789-1804: Authority, Liberty and the Search for Stability by Nigel Aston
£37.67What was the appeal of the values of the Revolution? When did disillusionment set in, and why? Why did so few women identify with the Revolution? These are some of the questions which recur in this fresh study which focuses on some of the major themes... -
Beyond the Tower: A History of East London by John Marriott
RRP: £15.99£13.82From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first... -
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes
RRP: £14.99£9.70At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and... -
Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf 9780520268180
RRP: £30.00£23.69Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about... -
Borderland by Rod Edmond 9781803136783
RRP: £15.99£11.61"Rod Edmond brings an expert scholarly eye and poetic insight to a complex and fascinating project, drawing history, literature and contemporary social realities into his account." ABDULRAZAK GURNAH, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2021 "A... -
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867 by Catherine Hall
£25.85Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women in the mid-nineteenth century imagined themselves at the... -
German Aces of World War I: The Pictorial Record by Norman Franks 9780764321177
RRP: £54.99£35.61The air aces of Imperial Germany's Luftstreitkrafte are an ever-popular subject among aviation historians, enthusiasts, war gamers, and aircraft modelers. The images of famous airmen such as Manfred von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, and Werner Voss are well... -
Royal Bastards by Peter Beauclerk-Dewar 9780752446684
RRP: £12.99£9.62Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's... -
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack
RRP: £39.99£38.54The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field. For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and... -
The Albanians: A Modern History by Miranda Vickers
RRP: £24.99£22.85This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March... -
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel
RRP: £55.00£47.69Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific... -
Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self by Adelheid Voskuhl
RRP: £80.00£76.61The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1785 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German... -
Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present by Pat Thane
RRP: £25.99£23.61How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided the nation and held it together, and how these changes were... -
Hackney from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch by Gavin Smith 9780752418186
RRP: £14.99£11.55Hackney from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch in old photographsBook InformationISBN 9780752418186Author Gavin SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Revolutionary France: 1788-1880 by Malcolm Crook 9780198731870
£40.61The French Revolution of 1789 was followed by a century of upheaval, rebellion, and change. Napoleonic dictatorship, monarchical restoration, Second Republic, and Second Empire all rapidly succeeded one another, and it was not until the advent of the... -
The Role of Birds in World War One: How Ornithology Helped to Win the Great War by Nicholas Milton
RRP: £22.00£15.62The British Expeditionary Force sent to France in the late summer of 1914 has been referred to as the 'Best British Army Ever Sent to War' as it was one of the most highly trained and disciplined forces in the world. It was also the 'Best Birdwatching... -
Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their... -
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murdered... -
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
RRP: £16.99£12.28The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014In the teeming, disordered, and sexually... -
Doggerland: Lost World under the North Sea by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz
RRP: £35.00£33.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464261134Author Luc W.S.W. AmkreutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies
RRP: £19.99£14.64The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: £34.99£30.85This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Ireland by Jonathan Bardon 9780717190003
RRP: £21.99£15.61A sweeping, accessible history of Ireland adapted from Dr Jonathan Bardon's BBC series This authoritative and comprehensive history of Ireland, written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and completed by his former editor Fergal Tobin, covers the entire history of... -
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82 by John Walker 9781032451633
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test... -
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola 9780197647554
RRP: £24.99£22.52Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large...