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Barbarians: Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472142139
RRP: $25.33$14.64A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the lives, personalities, successes and failures both of the key opponents of Rome's rise and dominance, and... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: $37.03$27.89Americans 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople by Sarah Bassett
RRP: $54.58$46.82From its foundation in the fourth century, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, 'Constantinople' not only identified a geographical location, but also summoned an idea. On the one hand, there was the fact of Constantinople, the city of... -
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
RRP: $21.43$15.15In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme,... -
Mons, an Artillery Battle by David Hutchison 9781912390731
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390731Author David HutchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies 9781800811164
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have... -
Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland by Jo Kerrigan 9781788491075
RRP: $35.08$26.91A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient Ireland Thousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a widely accepted, sophisticated and surprisingly enlightened legal system kept society running smoothly. ... -
The Story of Cambridge by Stephanie Boyd
RRP: $35.08$29.00How did a small market town on the edge of the Fens become famous throughout the world? And how do Cambridge's two communities - 'town' and 'gown' - get along? This engaging history explains how Cambridge has developed from its prehistoric roots to... -
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy 9781802061789
RRP: $21.43$15.15CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict - its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the... -
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens by Mike Ashley
RRP: $25.33$16.77Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a... -
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson
RRP: $37.03$27.32Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of... -
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon 9781838957421
RRP: $21.43$14.27Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New StatesmanWithout a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Inside Story by Sebastian Payne
RRP: $42.90$30.46The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Financial Times Whitehall editor and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner - Parliamentary Book Awards, Best Political... -
The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters by Robert Tombs 9781802064230
RRP: $37.03$27.32The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and... -
The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: $39.00$27.03"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy... -
The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life by Ian Maclean 9780521274364
RRP: $60.43$49.63This study of the world of scholarship and scholarly texts in the Renaissance, the so-called respublica literaria, affords insights into the intellectual infrastructure and modes of thought of the period by its examination of contemporary attitudes... -
Glastonbury: Isle of Avalon by George Wingfield 9781904263197
RRP: $11.68$9.15Did Jesus really visit the Holy Isle of Avalon as a young man? And did Joseph of Arimathea really found the first church here too? Is King Arthur really buried with Guinevere in the Abbey grounds? In this small guide book, local historian George... -
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
RRP: $39.00$27.03'A formidable achievement... a moving enactment of a modern pilgrimage' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New Statesman***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK***Without a permanent... -
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: $48.75$40.79The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be... -
The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond by Barry Eichengreen 9780691138480
RRP: $68.25$54.87In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. Today, things could hardly be more different. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's buying power tripled, while... -
Harlow by George Taylor
RRP: $25.33$18.76This book is part of the Archive Photographs series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752403304Author... -
Christine: A Search for Christine Granville by Madeleine Masson
RRP: $21.43$14.43Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War and said to have been Churchill's 'favourite spy', was murdered, aged 37, in a London Hotel in 1952. Her actions as a British secret... -
SOE Manual: How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe by Special Operations Executive
RRP: $19.48$12.95The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover - from documents, cover stories and how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation. ... -
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern 9780674988125
RRP: $58.40$46.92"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and... -
Monte Cassino by Matthew Parker
RRP: $21.43$14.4380th anniversary of the Battle of Monte CassinoThe six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two.At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active... -
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray
RRP: $39.00$28.65Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge success of his podcast We... -
The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple by Malcolm Barber
RRP: $37.03$31.30The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the... -
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies 9780141048864 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.03$4.68From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times.Europe's... -
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
RRP: $37.03$26.54From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times.Europe's... -
Bede and the Theory of Everything by Michelle P Brown 9781789147889
RRP: $33.05$23.91This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and 'the father of English history'. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of... -
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $29.23$21.35WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving... -
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire by Peter Brown 9780299133443
RRP: $36.95$35.20Peter Brown, a known authority on Mediterranean civilisation in late antiquity, traces the growing power of early Christian bishops as they wrested influence from the philosophers who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society. In the... -
To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer
RRP: $19.48$12.95How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles,... -
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $33.13$22.50The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived.'A superb achievement' LITERARY REVIEW'Combines scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life: in his masterly new CAESAR he shows us the... -
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah E. Harkness 9780300143164
RRP: $33.13$28.49Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night)... -
The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat by Paul Lendvai 9781787383364
RRP: $33.13$29.85This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns', but it was not long before the Hungarians became steadfast defenders of... -
Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 9781838770433
RRP: $13.63$12.17Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation... -
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape by Mary-Ann Ochota
RRP: $38.98$25.41'A definitive classic field guide [...] Its scope is as magnificent as our countryside itself.' BBC Countryfile Magazine'This book is perfect for anyone who's travelled through the countryside, scratched their head, and thought, 'what on earth is that... -
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World by John Boardman
RRP: $31.18$22.64A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science. This... -
Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $37.03$32.33Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent...