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Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident by Peter Stanford
RRP: $25.33$17.73'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn BraggThe 31st of October 2017... -
The Month that Changed the World: July 1914 by Gordon Martel
RRP: $51.66$40.11On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the 'guilty' person or state... -
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused by Mike Dash
RRP: $21.43$14.43'A fascinating exploration of human greed and self-delusion and also a tribute to our ageless search for beauty' DEBORAH MOGGACH.In 1630s' Holland thousands of people, from the wealthiest merchants to the lowest street traders, were caught up in a frenzy... -
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $25.33$22.35Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history"Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the... -
Anna Komnene and the Alexiad: The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade by Ioulia Kolovou 9781526733016
RRP: $48.75$35.14Anna Komnene is one of the most curious ?gures in the history of an intriguing empire. A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, she was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the ?rst and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few... -
The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence by Anna di Lellio 9781843312451
RRP: $29.23$28.63This book makes the case for the independence of Kosova - the former province of 'old-Yugoslavia' and now temporarily a United Nations-led International protectorate - at a time in which international diplomacy is deeply involved in solving the contested... -
Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns by Owen S. Connelly 9780742553187
RRP: $74.10$65.34Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a... -
Scottish Witches: The Story of the Persecution of Witches in Scotland by Lily Seafield
RRP: $11.68$8.70As a QC tries to get a pardon in Scotland for those accused of witchcraft in the past, this new edition of Scottish Witches explains why Scotland pursued witches - 4000 people were accused of witchcraft and 2000 were killed by strangulation at the stake,... -
Attila The Hun by John Man
RRP: $21.43$15.15The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals... -
The British Isles: A History of Four Nations by Hugh Kearney
RRP: $37.03$29.70Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal... -
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis
RRP: $21.43$15.15'A highly enjoyable exercise in financial disaster tourism... politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight' Robert Harris, The TimesIn this hilarious, fascinating, timely must-read, Michael Lewis reveals the true... -
Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark by Margaret Willes 9780300272208
RRP: $39.00$33.11The first complete history of Southwark, London's stubbornly independent community over the Thames Southwark's fortunes have always been tied to those of the City of London across the river. But from its founding in Roman times through to flourishing... -
The Tower of London: The Biography by Stephen Porter
RRP: $21.43$14.14The Tower of London is an icon of England's history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion and conquest in 1066 to dominate London, and it has become infamous as a place of torture, execution and murder. The deaths of royals... -
Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture by Gavriel David Rosenfeld
RRP: $60.43$47.19The Third Reich's legacy is in flux. For much of the post-war period, the Nazi era has been viewed moralistically as an exceptional period of history intrinsically different from all others. Since the turn of the millennium, however, this view has been... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Viking Expansion c750-c1050 by Christopher Culpin
$42.76Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $29.23$19.11Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and... -
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution by Mark Roseman
RRP: $23.38$16.44At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together... -
The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: $17.53$12.58England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that... -
Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science by Simon Schama 9781471169922
RRP: $25.33$15.95'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
Rome by Amanda Claridge
RRP: $51.66$38.01The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. This guide provides: * Coverage of all the important sites in the city from 800 BC to AD 600 and the... -
Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution by Warren Roberts 9780807843505
RRP: $107.25$98.07The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Western world. And David's life was closely bound up with the changes that were taking place in French politics, society,... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From... -
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: $37.03$26.54From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture. Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary... -
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $25.33$16.54Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. ... -
Modern Ireland 1600-1972 by R. Foster
RRP: $33.13$23.95Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. 'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his... -
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy
RRP: $25.33$17.73This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".About the AuthorColin McEvedy is the author of The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History; The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (Europe Since 1815)... -
Frontline Cookbook: Battlefield Recipes from the Second World War by Andrew Robertshaw
RRP: $25.33$18.76An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails of bullets and how kitchens are created in the desert or in the trench lines? In 1941 the army... -
Writing Underground: Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia by Martin Machovec
RRP: $29.25$29.00In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9781853264993
RRP: $9.73$7.53Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality:... -
A Handbook of Dates: For Students of British History by C.R. Cheney
RRP: $62.38$56.86A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events have fallen or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. It... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409865
RRP: $48.75$34.36An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer
RRP: $37.03$32.72How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterized this fascinating period? This much revised and expanded new edition of Magic in the Middle Ages surveys the growth and development of... -
Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards
RRP: $19.48$13.86Arguably the greatest of all published memoirs of the Great War, Old Soldiers Never Die is Private Frank Richards' classic account of the war from the standpoint of the regular soldier, and a moving tribute to the army that died on the Western Front in... -
The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Ashley Jackson
RRP: $17.53$12.58From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire... -
The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: $23.38$16.44Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and... -
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward
RRP: $21.43$14.43For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and... -
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $31.18$22.64Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas,... -
The End of Jewish Modernity by Enzo Traverso
RRP: $33.13$22.50Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book,... -
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by John Thomson 9780486281216
RRP: $29.23$19.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281216Author John ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: $25.33$18.51Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first...