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Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey
RRP: £12.99£9.34In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the House of... -
Batsford's Cambridge Then and Now by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: £12.99£8.69Cambridge Then and Now is the latest in the long-running series that uncovers archive photos of the landmark sites of a city and re-photographs them from exactly the same viewpoint today. Cambridge Then and Now features vintage photos that date back to... -
Hampstead Heath: The Walker's Guide by David McDowall 9781838198015
RRP: £11.99£11.84This is the third revised edition of the same title, by David McDowall & Deborah Wolton, originally approving in 1998. It contains ten walks which thoroughly explore all of Hampstead Heath, looking at the history and ecology of the landscape.About the... -
The Book of Marvels and Travels by John Mandeville
RRP: £8.99£6.65'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many... -
Granny's Kitchen Cupboard: A lifetime in over 100 objects by John Alexander 9781911595649
RRP: £14.99£4.23Accumulated over many years, 'Granny', the enigmatic collector behind this book, presents a selection of quirky post-war goods, advertising and kitchen items. In Granny's Kitchen Cupboard you'll find a remarkable array of British twentieth-century... -
The Secret History of Our Streets: London Joseph Bullman 9781849904513
RRP: £16.99£12.47The Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there. Stories of poverty and violence,... -
When the Germans Came: True Stories of Life under Occupation in the Channel Islands by Duncan Barrett 9781471148163
RRP: £8.99£7.10True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'An absolutely fascinating account of life under German rule in the Channel Islands during the war. As a Guernsey girl I grew up with... -
The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne by Simon Gaunt
RRP: £8.99£6.01Charles the king, our emperor great, Has been a full seven years in Spain. As far as the sea he conquered this haughty land. Not a single castle remains standing in his path Charlemagne (768-814) was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 and presided... -
Llanelli: Story of a Town by John Edwards 9781859835517
£13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859835517Author John EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Breedon Books Publishing Co LtdPublisher Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd -
European Armies and the Conduct of War by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £45.99£40.13Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan's work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700.Looking at warfare in the context of social and political change, Dr. Strachan interprets his subject matter as widely... -
Ashington & Its Mining Community by Mike Kirkup 9780752433912
RRP: £14.99£11.72Along with the Low and High Hirst, Ashington was once part of the parish of the Barony of Bothal and consisted of nothing more than a farmhouse and cottages. In 1847, the first mining shaft was sunk in the present Ellington Road Ends, the first of many... -
Haunted Cornwall by Paul Newman 9780752436685
RRP: £14.99£9.78Ghost stories from the most haunted county in Britain.ReviewsA highly readable, deeply intriguing work that skilfully traces the borderline where folklore melts into what may be termed the authentically supernatural. The variety of apparitions chronicled... -
Irishisms: Blather, Blarney, Blessings and everything else we say in Ireland by Ronan Moore
RRP: £11.99£8.66While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us on our fair island now speak. Irishisms examines... -
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009 by Richard van Emden 9781408897225 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.68'An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history' Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the... -
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009 Richard van Emden 9781408897225
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history' Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the... -
Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City by Jim Krane
RRP: £10.99£7.54Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India. Dubai... -
The Viking Diaspora Judith Jesch 9781138020795
RRP: £43.99£42.59The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of 'diaspora'. It discusses the ways in which... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £16.99£12.68This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution... -
Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson
RRP: £25.00£16.99Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building... -
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: £12.99£9.34Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions... -
1942: Britain at the Brink Taylor Downing 9781408713709
RRP: £20.00£12.23'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a... -
The Story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy by Andrew Simpson 9780752489667
RRP: £25.00£19.22This richly illustrated history explores every aspect of life in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Drawing on contemporary accounts, Government documents, newspaper reports, antiquarian books and recent academic work, it debunks many myths about the town - and... -
The Little Book of Cornwall by John van der Kiste 9780752480954
RRP: £14.99£11.55A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary,... -
The Geology of Oxfordshire by Philip Powell 9781904349198 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£2.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349198Author Philip PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
The Geology of Oxfordshire by Philip Powell 9781904349198
£11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349198Author Philip PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
France 1814 - 1914 by Robert Tombs 9780582493148
£46.38Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and... -
The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church by G. W. Bernard 9780300122718
RRP: £28.50£24.67A major reassessment of England's break with Rome Henry VIII's reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. In this substantial new account G. W. Bernard presents the king as neither confused nor a pawn in the... -
Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide by Joseph Sharples
RRP: £18.99£16.58This comprehensive, full-color guidebook describes all the architecturally significant buildings in Liverpool, the city selected as European Capital of Culture for 2008. The book includes suburban areas of interest and excursions to notable sites farther... -
Into the Jaws of Death: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire Robert Lyman 9781782064473
RRP: £12.99£9.34It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Second World War. The plan is simple: to drive an old... -
Skeletons On The Zahara by Dean King 9780099435921 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery... -
Skeletons On The Zahara by Dean King
RRP: £9.99£7.32The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery... -
The First World War: A New History by Sir Hew Strachan 9781471134265
RRP: £10.99£7.99A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His... -
The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard 9780367705305
RRP: £19.99£18.09In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of... -
Nymans: The Story of a Sussex Garden by Shirley Nicholson 9780752455952
RRP: £12.99£6.33Nymans forms one of a group of gardens in the Sussex Weald which were created before the First World War and are still beautiful today, their owners sharing a passion for new material brought back from all over the world by intrepid plant hunters. Ludwig... -
Nostradamus; The Illustrated Prophecies Peter Lemesurier 9781903816486
RRP: £19.99£17.63The predictions of Nostradamus have been continuously in print since his death and count, alongside the Bible, as one of the two best selling books in publishing history. Today, interest has never been higher, with claims that he foretold recent events... -
Walking the Old Ways of Herefordshire: The History in the Landscape Explored Through 52 Circular Walks by Andy Johnson
RRP: £15.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663865Author Andy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert
RRP: £32.99£29.16The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and... -
Rosslyn Chapel Decoded: New Interpretations of a Gothic Enigma Alan Butler 9781780284927
RRP: £18.99£12.94In the 15th century a new home was built for the priceless holy relics taken from Jerusalem centuries before - a building that, to the initiated, would explain everything about what had gone before and a structure that would be a recreation of the... -
From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 by Ariella Azoulay 9780745331690
RRP: £24.99£16.63In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory... -
Outlander’s Scotland Seasons 4–6: Discover the evocative locations for a new era of romance and adventure for Claire and Jamie by Phoebe Taplin
RRP: £6.00£4.21Explore the glories of Scotland on an evocative trip to Outlander country. This beautiful book, a companion to the bestselling Outlander's Scotland, introduces more than 25 of the locations featured in the hugely popular TV show, concentrating this time...