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Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer
RRP: €23.80€17.01How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
Cork Folk Tales by Kate Corkery 9781845885182
RRP: €15.46€11.45As the home of the famous Blarney Stone it is perhaps not surprising that the stories of County Cork could fill many libraries. Among its vast archive of myth and legend are tales of the Goddess Cliona, The Hag of Beara and the Giant Mac Mahon and the... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
RRP: €17.84€11.54'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it... -
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
RRP: €23.80€17.48Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her... -
Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme by Cliff 9780752421629
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating collection of almost 200 photographs explores the areas of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme. One rural, isolated farming settlements, the growth and expansion of these areas has largest been the result of two daring schemes, the Bridgwater... -
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair by Iain McLean 9780198295297
€66.99This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical... -
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis 9781403945518
RRP: €33.31€30.52This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored... -
British Celtic Warrior vs Roman Soldier: Britannia AD 43-105 by William Horsted
RRP: €17.84€13.03An illustrated study of the British tribal warriors and Roman auxiliaries who fought in three epic battles for control of Britain in the 1st century AD. Following the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, the tribes of the west and north resisted the... -
The London Blue Plaque Guide: 4th Edition by Nick Rennison 9780750963954 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.97Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked. From Richard Burton to Karl Marx, Marie Stopes to Jimi... -
Island Cross-talk: Pages from a Diary by Tomas O'Crohan 9780192819093
RRP: €14.27€10.71Written between 1919 and 1925, 'Island Cross-Talk' was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands - that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Springing from a powerful oral tradition, it captured the moment of transition from speech... -
Canal Builders: How Britain's Canal Network Evolved by Anthony Burton
RRP: €17.84€13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014304Author Anthony BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 165g -
Sacred Britannia: The Gods & Rituals of Roman Britain by Miranda Aldhouse-Green 9780500297261
RRP: €17.84€11.66A timely and up-to-date account of religion in Roman Britain. Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their Empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world - Britain. The expeditions of... -
The Medieval Household - Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 by Geoff Egan
RRP: €47.60€41.16Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts... -
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy
RRP: €15.46€10.82Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural... -
Crowdfunding the Revolution: The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence by Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
RRP: €23.80€19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137585Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Ben Walsh History: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1): Medicine in Britain, Crime and Punishment in Britain, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England and Early Elizabethan England by Ben Walsh
RRP: €30.94€26.63Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsDiscover a fresh approach to Pearson Edexcel GCSE History, developed by bestselling author Ben... -
The Silvertown Explosion: London 1917 by Graham Hill 9780752430539 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€6.52The Silvertown explosionBook InformationISBN 9780752430539Author Graham HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
The Silvertown Explosion: London 1917 by Graham Hill
RRP: €17.84€14.22The Silvertown explosionBook InformationISBN 9780752430539Author Graham HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik 9781786073839
RRP: €20.22€11.03'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... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales 9780140443394 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.87Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: €15.46€10.82Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
A Short History of the Troubles by Brian Feeney
RRP: €10.70€8.18From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It details the... -
Echoes of East Anglia: The Lost Wartime Airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk by Martin Bowman
RRP: €17.84€15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841145341Author Martin BowmanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales by Jill Francis
RRP: €41.65€37.09The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material as... -
Blue Streak: Britain's Medium Range Ballistic Missile by John Boyes 9781781557006
RRP: €29.75€20.97In the early 1950s the United States wished to concentrate its defence resources on the development of a 4,000 mile range intercontinental ballistic missile. As a stop-gap measure, US defence chiefs hoped to assist Britain with the development of its own... -
Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty by Greg Dening
RRP: €32.12€24.26Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox which inspired... -
The London Compendium by Ed Glinert
RRP: €17.84€13.03The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has... -
Hms Bristol by Rob Griffin
RRP: €20.22€14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658757Author Rob GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 355g -
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan
RRP: €11.89€7.90THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David... -
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain by Ron Ramdin
RRP: €35.70€29.24This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of a small black presence in sixteenth-century... -
Meccano by Roger Marriott 9780747810568
RRP: €10.70€8.81It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage and is now known all over the world. Hornby's vision of an educational toy... -
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family by Olivia Williams 9781472269799 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.15THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real... -
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: €15.46€10.82'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a... -
Brits: The War Against the IRA by Peter Taylor
RRP: €20.22€14.61The third part of the trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state... -
Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
RRP: €13.08€8.81The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie 9780091933821 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.78Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: €17.84€13.03Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim by Dave Yost 9780786433186
RRP: €26.17€22.07As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1st, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the... -
The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist by Clark James 9780752498034 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€9.48It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying,... -
The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist by Clark James
RRP: €15.46€11.45It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying,...