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The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £12.99£8.80Revised and updated edition of Christian Wolmar's classic history of the London Underground, with a new chapter on Crossrail.'I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting the arrival of the next eastbound Circle Line train... -
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £14.99£9.96A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a... -
Masters by Curt Sampson
RRP: £14.99£10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753374Author Curt SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)... -
The Isle of Skye by Iain Kirk Campbell 9780473347604
RRP: £12.95£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473347604Author Iain Kirk CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ICPPublisher ICP -
Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh by Alan J. Wilson 9781851584567
RRP: £9.99£7.76Over a hundred gripping tales - of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning - reveal the darker side of genteel Edinburgh's history. Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories is a highly readable collection, fully illustrated... -
Dumfries & Galloway: Picturing Scotland: From the 'Queen of the South' to the Mull of Galloway Colin Nutt 9781788180191
RRP: £4.99£4.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788180191Author Colin NuttFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Lyrical ScotlandPublisher Lyrical ScotlandDimensions(mm) 115mm * 165mm * 13mm -
Pembrokeshire Villages by Geoffrey Davies 9781850589655
RRP: £8.99£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850589655Author Geoffrey DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm -
The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£9.34From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years Aleks Sierz 9781350301764
RRP: £11.99£11.19British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century, four hundred years ago when there... -
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography by Peter Brown 9780520280410
£25.87This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.About the AuthorPeter Brown is Rollins Professor of History emeritus at Princeton University... -
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn
RRP: £21.95£17.90Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In... -
The Free World: A Cultural History of the Cold War by Louis Menand
RRP: £30.00£27.68Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Cornwall: A History: Revised and updated edition by Philip Payton 9780859890274
RRP: £25.00£22.19A new edition of Philip Payton's modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. Drawing upon a wide range of original and secondary sources, it begins... -
Ghosts of K2: The Race for the Summit of the World's Most Deadly Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: £12.99£9.34K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet it's a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of them lived to tell of their adventures. Capturing the depth of their obsession, the heart-stopping tension... -
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: One Trial, Six Lives and the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Julia Laite
RRP: £16.99£12.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece' Hallie Rubenhold, author of the Baillie Gifford prize-winning The Five 'Ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday 'Extraordinary' Guardian 'A... -
Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West Jason Webster 9781472129833
RRP: £12.99£8.83Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence.Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture... -
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett 9781910723432
RRP: £20.00£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723432Author Jim CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 541gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba by Sarah Rainsford
RRP: £9.99£7.32Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, and... -
Pakistan: A Personal History by Imran Khan
RRP: £12.99£9.34"A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times)Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience, seen through the eyes of the man set to become... -
We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power by Jason Blakely
RRP: £25.99£21.99Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific... -
Why History Matters by John Tosh
£19.46Does history matter? Is it anything more than entertainment? And if so, what practical relevance does it have? In this fully revised second edition of a seminal text, John Tosh persuasively argues that history is central to an informed and critical... -
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.34Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into the cataclysmic events of the Second World War.But how... -
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1941-51 by Noreen Branson 9780853158622
RRP: £20.00£19.54This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the 20th century. It begins with Russia's entry into World War II, which opended for a renewal of popular front politics. It examines the Labour governments of 1945 to... -
That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present Isabelle Tombs 9781845951085
RRP: £25.00£18.90From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection. In the nearly two... -
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable Brian Clegg 9781841196503
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the GalaxyWe... -
Chingford by Stephen Pensey 9780752426136
RRP: £12.99£9.87This second selection of archive images of Chingford, like its predecessor, reveals the hidden past of this fascinating town. The reader is taken on a pictorial journey back in time to the end of the nineteenth century when Chingford was still a small,... -
The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy by Chris Kempshall
RRP: £37.99£33.64This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics.Drawing on a variety of sources, including films,... -
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award by Paul Stephenson
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The Times Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique... -
Bad Days in History by Michael Farquhar 9781426218071
£13.59From Caligula's blood-soaked end to hotelier Steve Wynn's unfortunate run-in with a priceless Picasso, Bad Days in History delves into the past to present 365 delightfully told tales of historically bad days.About the AuthorMichael Farquhar, a former... -
Salt & Saltaire by Gary Firth
RRP: £14.99£11.72The model industrial village of Saltaire is now one of Yorkshire's best known and most visited areas of historical interest, confirmed by its successful bid to become a World Heritage Site. Its makeover in more recent times, as a post-industrial... -
The Scramble for Africa M. E. Chamberlain 9781408220146
RRP: £36.99£35.74In 1870 barely one tenth of Africa was under European control. By 1914 only about one tenth Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia was not. This book offers a clear and concise account of the 'scramble' or 'race' for Africa, the period of around 20 years... -
Pirates of The West Country by Ed Fox 9780752443775
RRP: £14.99£11.72These true tales of pirates operating from places such as Falmouth, Lulworth Cove, Plymouth and Bristol inspired the pirate fiction we know today.Book InformationISBN 9780752443775Author Ed FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The History Press... -
Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon by Anna Harris
RRP: £25.00£17.90This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar... -
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
RRP: £16.99£11.47This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close... -
The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp by Frank Waters 9780803258389
RRP: £12.99£11.76The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp is based on the recollections... -
Caroline and Charlotte by Alison Plowden
RRP: £12.99£9.87Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a... -
Europe Between the Wars by Martin Kitchen
RRP: £47.99£46.38Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and... -
The File: A Personal History Timothy Garton Ash 9781848870888
RRP: £12.99£8.80In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe, he returned... -
The Story of Bath by Cathryn Spence
RRP: £19.99£15.66This richly illustrated history explores the many challenges and triumphs faced by one of Britain's most fascinating cities. The Story of Bath charts the long history of this important city from its beginnings in the Roman period through to the present... -
York Historic Walking Guides by Claire Shaw
RRP: £9.99£6.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999717582Author Claire ShawFormat PaperbackImprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd