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Tank Destroyer: Achilles and M10, British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526741905
RRP: $19.34$14.13In this heavily illustrated volume in the TankCraft series Dennis Oliver focuses on the Achilles - the British variant of the American M10 - which was one of the most important Allied tank destroyers of the Second World War. It played a key role in the... -
Re-discovering the Making of the UK: Britain 1500-1750 by Tim Lomas
$32.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719585449Author Tim LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm *... -
St Andrews' Untold Stories by Leonard Low
RRP: $12.84$9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246442Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Argentine Fight for the Falklands by Martin Middlebrook 9781844158881
RRP: $21.92$15.84Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's The Other Side of the Hill in analysing and understanding the military thinking and... -
Old Dennistoun by Andrew Stuart 9781872074672
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074672Author Andrew StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm -
The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England by Professor Alec Ryrie
RRP: $21.92$16.69An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. ... -
The Royal Bastards of Twelfth Century England: Power and Blood by James Turner 9781399067348
RRP: $28.38$20.15The many storied monarchs of twelfth century England lived, fought, loved, and died surrounded by their illegitimate relatives. While their many contributions have too often been overlooked, these illegitimate sons, daughters and siblings occupied... -
The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael
RRP: $37.40$34.46This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the... -
Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair by Jon Lawrence 9780199550128
$110.55In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been... -
Bren Gun Carrier: Britain's Universal War Machine by Robert Jackson
RRP: $21.92$15.84One of the most versatile fighting vehicles in the British army and many other forces for a quarter of a century, the Universal Carrier - more popularly known by its original title of Bren Gun Carrier - was developed as a fast and agile infantry-support... -
Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley
RRP: $38.64$31.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059148Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan by Christopher Andersen
RRP: $24.50$15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982159733Author Christopher AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England by Michael Alexander
RRP: $21.92$18.85Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England-from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin,... -
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century by John K. Walton 9780719051708
RRP: $25.79$22.99The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer... -
An English Farmbouse by Geoffrey Grigson
RRP: $19.35$14.14Originally published in 1948, and edited by the artist John Piper, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English farmhouse, and its associated buildings, whether made from sarsen, thatch, timber, tile or brick. Grigson... -
Down the River by H. E. Bates
RRP: $18.06$12.59Rivers are great workings of nature, time and geology. They have long been at the very centre of human culture, sustaining us with water, food, power and stories. Our thoughts flow like a river. A river's journey, from source to sea, is a metaphor for... -
Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander 9780008311247
RRP: $12.89$8.57'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced .... -
Attacking a Norman Castle by Robin Twiddy
RRP: $11.60$7.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801559157Author Robin TwiddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing -
Daniel Cottier - Designer, Decorator, Dealer by Petra Ten-doess Chu
RRP: $51.60$43.33The story of an innovative designer and farsighted art entrepreneur and the important role he played in the dissemination of 19th-century Aestheticism This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838-1891) from an apprentice coach painter in... -
The Story of Victorian Film by Bryony Dixon
RRP: $30.95$27.01In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers - an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography... -
Making Thatchers Britain by Dr. Ben Jackson
RRP: $34.82$28.75Margaret Thatcher was one of the most controversial figures of modern times. Her governments inspired hatred and veneration in equal measure and her legacy remains fiercely contested. Yet assessments of the Thatcher era are often divorced from any larger... -
Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains by Andrew Martin
RRP: $14.18$10.02In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to... -
The Cowley Fathers: A History of the English Congregation of the Society of St John the Evangelist by Serenhedd James 9781786221834
RRP: $58.05$54.48The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of England since the Reformation, as a result of the spread and influence of the Oxford Movement and its... -
Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette by Thomas E. Hill 9780912517124
RRP: $10.97$7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912517124Author Thomas E. HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bluewood Books,U.S.Publisher Bluewood Books,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 151mm * 179mm * 8mm -
A Short History Of The Anglo-saxons by Giles Morgan 9780857301666
RRP: $12.89$3.20From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can be found throughout the world. But who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from? A Short... -
The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset by Philippa Levine
RRP: $51.59$45.23The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living... -
In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars by James Davey
RRP: $19.34$17.32Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the... -
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
RRP: $12.89$9.21A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story 'The School of... -
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches by Lawrence Normand 9780859893886
RRP: $51.59$47.81This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was... -
Way of a Countryman by Ian Niall
RRP: $21.92$18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122461Author Ian NiallFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 483g -
Crystal Palace and the Norwoods by Nicholas Reed 9780752401478
RRP: $19.34$14.90A history of Crystal Palace and the NorwoodsBook InformationISBN 9780752401478Author Nicholas ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Piercing the Fog of War: The Theory and Practice of Command in the British and German Armies, 1918-1940 by Martin Samuels 9781911628903
RRP: $45.15$31.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628903Author Martin SamuelsFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Irish on the Somme: A Battlefield Guide to the Irish Regiments in the Great War and the Monuments to Their Memory by Steven Moore
RRP: $20.64$18.95At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches and walked across No-Man's-Land and into the history books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for another four and a half months, would ultimately involve every Irish... -
The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9780300152012
RRP: $51.60$46.43Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are among the most distinctive and admired features of the... -
Haunted Stevenage by Paul Adams
RRP: $12.89$9.74From unexplained sightings to the search for evidence of ghosts, this book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from Old and New Stevenage and the surrounding area. Compiled by paranormal historian Paul Adams, this collection features the restless... -
Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray by Julia Abel Smith
RRP: $25.80$19.40On the night of 4 April 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a cleric to perform a secret ceremony. The wedding of the sixth son of King George III to the daughter of the Earl of Dunmore would not only be concealed - it would also be illegal.Lady... -
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
RRP: $23.21$20.37A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and... -
Manxmen at Sea in the Age of Nelson, 1760-1815 by Matthew Richardson 9781399044493
RRP: $25.80$20.15The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that... -
The Hebrides: An Aerial View of a Cultural Landscape by Angus MacDonald
RRP: $38.70$27.48The Hebrides of Scotland - around 500 diverse islands - form the north-western Atlantic fringe of Europe. This book surveys the cultural landscape of this dramatically beautiful, complex and conflicted area, with emphasis on what may be interpreted... -
All Aboard!: Remembering Britain’s Railways by Julian Holland
RRP: $19.34$12.51From best-selling railway expert, Julian Holland, explore Britain's historical railways in All Aboard. The history of Britain's railways is a long and fascinating one, filled with stories of grand endeavours, noted figures and record-breaking...