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Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay
RRP: £21.99£17.98Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern... -
The Native Woodlands of Scotland: Ecology, Conservation and Management Scott Wilson 9780748692859
RRP: £34.99£29.21This book offers topical information on ecology, conservation and management for Scottish native woodlands. This authoritative textbook provides a convenient single source of up to date information about the fascinating native woodland habitats of... -
A Dark History of Chocolate by Emma Kay
RRP: £19.99£14.28_A Dark History of Chocolate_ looks at our long relationship with this ancient 'food of the Gods'. The book examines the impact of the cocoa bean trade on the economies of Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as its influence on health, cultural and... -
Walking In the Footsteps of the Fallen: Verdun 1916 by Christina Holstein 9781526717047
RRP: £14.99£10.95A visit to the battlefield of Verdun is usually dominated by the forts of Douamont and Vaux, the museum at Fleury and the striking, huge Ossuary, Although this gives a flavour of the horrific fighting that took place in the area, particularly in 1916,... -
Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II Wilhelm Johnen 9781784385644
RRP: £9.99£7.11"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of seconds. The bomber fell like a stone out of the sky and exploded on the ground. The nightmare came to an... -
Dutch Armies of the 80 Years' War 1568-1648 2: Cavalry, Artillery & Engineers by Bouko de Groot
RRP: £11.99£8.43Throughout the 16th Century, the Spanish had an aura of invincibility. They controlled a vast colonial empire that stretched across the Americas and the Pacific, and held considerable territories in Europe, centring on the so-called 'Spanish Road'. The... -
The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West by Tom Holland 9780307278708
RRP: £20.00£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278708Author Tom HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
O'Neill: The Origins of the O'Neill Family and Their Place in History by Iain Gray 9781852174118
RRP: £3.99£3.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852174118Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
Whaleback City: Poems from Dundee and its Hinterlands by Andy Jackson
RRP: £12.95£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861445Author Andy JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press Ltd -
A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day by Friso Wielenga 9781350379596
RRP: £24.99£21.93Friso Wielenga's detailed history of the Netherlands traces its political development from independence to today, incorporating significant explorations of culture, economics, international relations, colonisation and decolonisation in the process. It... -
Across the Rhine: January-May 1945 by Simon Forty
RRP: £25.00£18.79The last rites were administered to the Third Reich from the west by a massive concentration of Allied forces and firepower. With France secured, Hitler's vain counterattack in the Ardennes held and the Channel and North Sea ports cleared, little stood... -
Tank Destroyer: Achilles and M10, British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944-1945 Dennis Oliver 9781526741905
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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... -
Tiger Battalion 507: Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment by Helmut Schneider 9781784384968
RRP: £25.00£18.02_ May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.'_ Helmut Schneider This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer... -
Omega Designs: Feast for the Eyes by Anton Kreuzer
RRP: £54.99£36.21Omega has become the watchmaker with the highest name recognition in timekeeping for personal and sports events worldwide. If the father owned an Omega, so does the son. This important, color illustrated, new book presents, an illustrated description of... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman 9781789545630
RRP: £16.00£11.24A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from... -
Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399091411
RRP: £14.99£10.95In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defences. To attempt to stabilise the situation, Hitler deployed his elite Waffen-SS divisions to avert the crisis. This classic Images of War... -
Around Uttoxeter by Roy Lewis
RRP: £12.99£9.62Around UttoxeterBook InformationISBN 9780752415130Author Roy LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £11.99£9.08In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set the template for the world wars. Battleships were too... -
Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo: Nine Days that Saved an Army by Martin Mace 9781526770356
RRP: £15.99£11.61The miracle' of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest defeat... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £29.99£25.28A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History by T. M. Devine 9780198713630
£36.21Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to... -
Industry, Empire and Unrest: Scotland, 1790-1880 by Iain Hutchison
RRP: £85.00£77.50Industry, Reform and Empire traces the evolution of politics from a repressive, reactionary and electorally restricted regime before 1832 to an era of wider franchise and sweeping institutional reform. Focusing on the impact of rapid industrialisation,... -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers
RRP: £36.00£35.23"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history... -
The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc by Suzannah Lipscomb 9780198797661
RRP: £42.99£32.68Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought... -
A History of Slovakia by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum
RRP: £18.99£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403969293Author Stanislav J. KirschbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 398gDimensions(mm)... -
The Clean Body: A Modern History by Peter Ward 9780773559387
RRP: £35.00£30.74How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean... -
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe... by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563232Author Andrew PettegreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Vincent van Gogh Atlas by Nienke Denekamp
RRP: £19.99£17.37A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked This exciting publication familiarizes readers of all ages with the many fascinating facets of Vincent van Gogh... -
Britain Since 1707 by Hamish Fraser 9780582894150
RRP: £39.99£39.54Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced... -
Trench Warfare 1914-18 by Tony Ashworth 9780330480680
£15.23The story of the great battles of the First World War has been told by historians, journalists and others. The shock and slaughter of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele are a major theme of most books. Large scale battles, however, comprised the smaller... -
The Dundee Whaling Fleet: Ships, Masters and Men by Malcolm Archibald
RRP: £17.99£16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861599Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press LtdDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *... -
Operation Market Garden: September 1944 by Simon Forty
RRP: £25.00£22.43The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a month after Operation Cobra had broken the stalemate. The Allies harried the retreating Germans, who left their tanks and heavy weapons south of the Seine,... -
European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution Ewart Oakeshott 9781843837206
RRP: £24.99£21.30The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial... -
A History of Modern Europe by John Merriman 9780393667363
£54.50Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in Merriman's signature narrative style, the book is brightened with humour and biographical sketches. The... -
From the Ashes: Reconstruction of Flanders Fields after the Great War by Simon Augustyn 9789492346551
RRP: £9.00£6.41Once the steel storm of the industrial war had passed, the idyllic Flanders Fields region in Belgium was left as a desolate moon landscape. The First World War had wiped dozens of villages and cities completely off the map. The fields had been destroyed... -
Madrid: A Traveller's Reader by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £12.99£4.11The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most... -
Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar
RRP: £27.00£26.87In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story - how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they... -
East Kent at War by David Collyer
RRP: £14.99£11.55During the Second World War, East Kent was at the forefront of the defence of the United Kingdom. In 1940 the ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Folkestone and Margate took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, while airfields such as Manston, Hawkinge and Lympne were... -
Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part: Letters from the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill 9781781558126
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time hundreds of first person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been... -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool 9781472902993 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III is one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Now, with the...