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A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward
RRP: £10.99£7.40For 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: £15.99£11.61Comprehensive 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: £16.99£11.54Has 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: £14.99£9.76Apologies 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: £12.99£9.49Tom 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... -
The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction by David M. Gwynn
RRP: £8.99£6.45The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history... -
William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
RRP: £18.99£12.71The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. Prime minister at the... -
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick 9781350452039
£25.15Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and... -
First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written... This book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to... -
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
RRP: £16.99£11.54European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin... -
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin.As cousins,... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: £12.99£9.09The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of... -
The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
RRP: £12.99£9.09Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the... -
Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: £18.99£14.01Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the... -
How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third... -
Oxford AQA GCSE History (9-1): Britain: Health and the People c1000-Present Day Student Book Second Edition by Aaron Wilkes 9781382023108
£20.34This Second Edition of Britain: Health and the People c1000-Present Day Student Book is part of the popular Oxford AQA GCSE 9-1 History series. Updated as part of our commitment to the inclusive presentation of diverse histories and to reflect the world... -
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier by Earl Charles Spencer
RRP: £12.99£9.00King Charles's Pirate PrinceTo his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, handsome, expert horseman, crack pistol shot, his swaggering style irritated the stuffier of the king's... -
Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields by John Waddy 9780850525717
RRP: £12.99£9.09Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the... -
Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard DannattThe Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than... -
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo 9781847927798
RRP: £22.00£15.62A gripping reconstruction of the world-changing day when hundreds of East Germans broke across the border to the West, leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. 'Engrossing and dramatic . . . captivating' William Boyd, New Statesman'Intensely moving'... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and... -
Garrison Life at Vindolanda: A Band of Brothers by Anthony Birley 9780752419503
RRP: £22.50£16.79The ink writing-tablets, first indentified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years AD 90-125... -
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe by Francois Neveux
RRP: £11.99£3.32The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most successful warrior tribes of the Dark Ages that came to dominate Europe from the Baltic Sea to the island of Sicily and the borders of... -
Hannibal's War: Books 21-30 by Livy
RRP: £13.99£9.75'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans... -
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
RRP: £12.99£8.56When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky... -
The Crystal Palace by Patrick Beaver 9781860771989
RRP: £20.00£15.44The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park to house the treasures of the world for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It became a microcosm of Victorian life, industry and leisure, reflecting every aspect of its age. Designed by Joseph Paxton as a temporary... -
A Concise History of Finland by David Kirby
RRP: £22.99£19.15Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of... -
100 Tricks to Appear Smart In Meetings by Sarah Cooper
RRP: £10.00£7.12Discover the perfect work companion from viral tik tok and Netflix star Sarah Cooper The book that's missing from offices and Zoom calls around the world: the idiot's guide to conquering the corporate meeting. In it you will learn the essential subtle... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' -Andrew Marr, Sunday... -
Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by Roger Knight 9780300273403
RRP: £12.99£11.46The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by... -
Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trevor Royle
RRP: £16.99£11.94One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate... -
Healing through the Bones: Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus by Kristian T. P. Fics 9780761868194
RRP: £30.00£28.02Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. This study explores specifically an effect of violent conflict-Missing Persons and the bi-communal process of their humanitarian... -
The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815 by Robert Harvey
RRP: £20.00£13.75Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo.On land and at sea, throughout the four corners of the continent,... -
Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity by Gunter Bischof
RRP: £45.99£40.53When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new... -
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: £16.99£15.51Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three... -
War in European History by Michael Howard 9780199546190
RRP: £13.99£9.75First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves... -
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History by Peter H. Wilson
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'A definitive study of the amorphous state that lasted a thousand years ... The Holy Roman Empire deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus' Tom Holland, Daily Telegraph'Engrossing ... staggering ... a... -
Defiant: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its...