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Sport, History, and Heritage - Studies in Public Representation by Jeffrey Hill
RRP: £45.00£44.81An examination of the relationship between sport and its cultural heritage. Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be... -
Absolute Emperor: Napoleonic Wargame Battles by Boyd Bruce
RRP: £12.99£9.80From the late Revolutionary Wars and Egyptian campaign, to the battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, Leipzig, and Waterloo, Absolute Emperor is a mass battle wargame that provides all the rules needed to play during this period of grand armies and sweeping... -
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 9781509893355
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' - Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' - Literary ReviewFilled with incident, discovery, and... -
Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan 9780198183846
£31.16Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how... -
Lost Tramways of England: London South West by Peter Waller 9781914079832
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079832Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 15mm -
Strategy and the Second World War: How the War was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£9.80A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and... -
Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990 - 1992 by Charles Tilly
RRP: £31.95£28.29In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: £29.95£24.06Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to... -
Nobody Unprepared: The Achievements of No.78 Squadron of 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command during World War Two by Vernon Holland 9781903953150
£16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953150Author Vernon HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)... -
The Oxford Companion to Black British History by David Dabydeen
RRP: £39.49£30.44The Oxford Companion to Black British History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, from African auxiliaries stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the 2nd century AD,... -
Kinver & Enville: The Photographic Collection by Bob Clarke
RRP: £16.99£13.34Today's village of Kinver first made an appearance in 736 AD as Cynibre. Despite being close to the Black Country and having a flourishing iron working industry from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, the village avoided the spread of... -
The Somme: A New History by Professor Gary Sheffield
RRP: £9.99£6.80On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous 7-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with... -
Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: £24.49£18.57In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen... -
Waterloo: Myth and Reality by Gareth Glover
RRP: £16.99£12.28More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars and forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, wilful... -
Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time by Bernard Wasserstein 9780198730736
RRP: £34.49£24.94The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically... -
The Two Italies: Economic Relations Between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes by David Abulafia 9780521023061
RRP: £22.99£20.66This book is a study of the economic development of different areas of twelfth-century Italy whose commercial interests were closely inter related: the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, famed for the wealth of its rulers, and the maritime ports of Genoa, Pisa... -
Cinderella's Glass Slipper: Towards a Cultural History of Renaissance Materialities by Genevieve Warwick 9781009263986
RRP: £17.00£14.72Cinderella's Glass Slipper studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects. The literary fairy-tale first arose in Renaissance Venice, originating from oral story-telling traditions that would later become the... -
The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900 by Duncan Redford
£55.27Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates. This book tells the story, not just of defeats and victories, but also of how the navy has adjusted to over 100 years of rapid technological and social change. The navy has... -
Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present Richard Huzzey 9780197267721
RRP: £90.00£89.88Throughout history, across very different types of state and society, petitions and petitioning have been ubiquitous practices and the interaction between petitioners and authority has been a crucial dynamic in exercising and contesting power... -
Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dellheim
RRP: £32.00£28.15The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause celebre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by... -
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield 9780719062025
RRP: £19.99£5.53Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of... -
Tolkien and the Peril of War by Robert S. Blackham 9780752457802
£15.20J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences of the Battle of the Somme forever imprinted on his mind, and became a dramatic source of inspiration for The Lord of the Rings. This absorbing book charts Tolkien's life from 1914 to 1918, using old postcards, maps and... -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99£9.58The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the... -
Landmark Thucydides by Robert B Strassler 9781416590873
RRP: £35.00£33.31Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
Statelessness: A Modern History by Mira L Siegelberg
RRP: £30.95£24.82The story of how a much-contested legal category-statelessness-transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the... -
Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott
RRP: £28.00£21.80This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women's... -
Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 by Alexandre Skirda 9781902593685
£17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593685Author Alexandre SkirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 569g -
Trench Warfare 1914-18 by Tony Ashworth 9780330480680 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.87The story of the great battles of the First World War has been told by historians, journalists and others. The shock and slaughter of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele are a major theme of most books. Large scale battles, however, comprised the smaller... -
Trench Warfare 1914-18 by Tony Ashworth 9780330480680
£15.23The story of the great battles of the First World War has been told by historians, journalists and others. The shock and slaughter of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele are a major theme of most books. Large scale battles, however, comprised the smaller... -
The Weimar Republic by J. W. Hiden 9780582287068
RRP: £34.99£34.82It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This... -
Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Salway 9780192854049 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.14Britain was within the orbit of Graeco-Roman civilization for at least half a millennium, and for over 350 years part of the political union created by the Roman Empire that encompassed most of Europe and all the countries of the Mediterranean. First... -
The Origins of the First World War by William Mulligan
RRP: £25.99£22.85A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and... -
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18 by Alan Palmer
RRP: £12.99£8.60Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into... -
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt by Justine Firnhaber-Baker 9780367143763
RRP: £45.99£40.53The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an... -
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: £23.00£20.35More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century... -
The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis by Charles Read
RRP: £25.00£20.92Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine. The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the... -
The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £9.99£6.80The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the... -
Whetstone & North Finchley by John Heathfield
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating collection of photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. The book gives a vivid impression of buildings, streets and... -
Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar
RRP: £27.00£26.87In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story - how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they... -
Fergie Confidential: The Duchess of York's True Story by Chris Hutchins 9780993445705
£16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993445705Author Chris HutchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Neville Ness House LtdPublisher Neville Ness House Ltd