Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Walks Near Farnham: 45 Short Walks 4-6 Miles Linking Crondall Puttenham Hindhead Frensham Bentley by Bill Andrews 9780956060471
£8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956060471Author Bill AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bill AndrewsPublisher Bill Andrews -
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £9.99£3.01There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event... -
Churchill by Samantha Heywood 9780415230162
RRP: £36.99£32.53Churchill examines the influential career of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951-55. It discusses his early career as Secretary of State for War and Air and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Churchill as Warlord,... -
Piercing Plate Armour with Arrows by Mark Stretton 9780244386092
RRP: £10.00£9.01The report of a series of empirical tests undertaken at Bosworth Battlefield Centre, to demonstrate the effects of replica Medieval-period arrows being shot at a realistic piece of plate armour. The results from these tests will enable the reader to gain... -
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount 9781471129469 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan... -
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 Ferdinand Mount 9781471129469
RRP: £12.99£8.81The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan... -
Scandals of the Royal Palaces: An Intimate Memoir of Royals Behaving Badly Tom Quinn 9781785906527
RRP: £20.00£14.51George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in... -
Ghosts of York by Rob Kirkup
RRP: £15.99£11.02Regarded by many as the most haunted city in the world; York has over 500 individual spirits and is therefore the perfect destination for five paranormal investigators from Newcastle gathering evidence to answer a question as old as time: Do ghosts... -
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder 9780802144256
RRP: £13.99£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144256Author Gary KinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions by Lloyd Bowen 9781786836540
RRP: £14.99£11.66This is the first book-length treatment of the ‘turncoat’ John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648. The volume charts Poyer’s rise from a humble glover in Pembroke to become parliament’s most... -
Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain by Simon Webb
RRP: £16.99£13.13Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death... -
British Goats by Tiffany Francis-Baker
RRP: £7.99£6.44A lively, engaging introduction to the history of goats in Britain, and the recent renaissance of goat-related products. Ever wondered why a goat's eyes have rectangular pupils? Or what happened to Thor's goats each day after they finished pulling his... -
The Vickers Viscount: The World's First Turboprop Airliner by Nick Stroud
RRP: £16.99£12.47By some margin the most successful British medium-range airliner ever produced, the world-beating Viscount was a sublime combination of Vickers' state-of-the-art postwar design and Rolls-Royce's cutting-edge power-plant technology, both companies being... -
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
RRP: £9.99£6.85The story of poison is the story of power... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and... -
Crosby, Seaforth and Waterloo: The Second Selection: Images of England by Tom Heath
RRP: £12.99£9.87Crosby's own local newspaper, the Crosby Herald, publishes a regular 'Memories' column that features stories and photographs from the area's past. It is a popular column and made more so because of the endless supply of old photographs provided for it by... -
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer Peter FitzSimons 9781472131461
RRP: £20.00£13.95Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived.The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography. In 1908 he sailed for England and a job producing films with the... -
Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy's Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church by Ian Campbell
RRP: £30.00£27.15A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded the sovereign state of Ethiopia--a war of conquest that triggered a chain of events culminating in the Second World War. In this stunning and highly original tale of two Churches,... -
Selected Poems by John Wilmot Rochester
RRP: £9.99£7.32'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his... -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy
RRP: £20.00£18.02THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLER A gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil. ... -
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £12.99£9.34Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his... -
Mingulay: An Island and its People by Ben Buxton
RRP: £12.99£8.80A remote, barren and ruggedly beautiful island lies at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides. Its people, loyal for centuries, have abandoned it but the beauty and history of Mingulay remain. The story of St Kilda, whose inhabitants were also forced to... -
London's Truly Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn
RRP: £7.99£5.59More extraordinary but true stories from London's history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London's Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a... -
Not a Guide to: Durham by Chris Daniel
RRP: £5.99£4.95This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of DURHAM. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic city. The great and the good; the bad and the ugly. Small wonders, tall stories, TRIUMPH... -
brainwaves by Ziggy Alberts 9780648705710
RRP: £13.99£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648705710Author Ziggy AlbertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Commonfolk PublishingPublisher Commonfolk Publishing -
Paris Commune: A Brief History by Carolyn J. Eichner
RRP: £17.99£15.90At dawn on March 18, 1871, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. When ordered to fire, the troops refused and instead turned and... -
The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs by Robert Wright
RRP: £14.99£10.05In The Evolution of God, Robert Wright, award-winning author of the bestselling books Nonzero and The Moral Animal, takes us on a sweeping journey through religious history, from the Stone Age to the Information Age, unveiling along the way an... -
The Galloway Highlands Dane Love 9780956755070
RRP: £15.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956755070Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Philip Skippon and the British Civil Wars: The "Christian Centurion" by Ismini Pells
RRP: £39.99£35.33Philip Skippon was the third-most senior general in parliament's New Model Army during the British Civil Wars. A veteran of European Protestant armies during the period of the Thirty Years' War and long-serving commander of the London Trained Bands, no... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: £5.99£4.34THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin... -
Haunted Belfast by Joe Baker
RRP: £14.99£11.72The paranormal history of Belfast is one that has often been forgotten, buried under the decades of regional upheaval. However, for centuries, there have been stories and sightings of Belfast's resident apparitions. This title features a collection of... -
The Folk-lore of Herefordshire by Ella Mary Leather
RRP: £15.00£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839294Author Ella Mary LeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
A Sword for Christ: The Republican Era in Great Britain and Ireland by Jonathan Cobb
RRP: £30.00£19.70The fifteen-year period between 1645 and 1660 was one of the most dynamic in British history, during which the republican Commonwealth and Cromwellian Protectorate attempted to create a new type of 'Godly' state after the execution of Charles I. ... -
Viscount Breckenridge To The Rescue: Number 1 in series by Stephanie Laurens 9780749955045
RRP: £9.99£7.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Medieval Worlds: A Sourcebook by Roberta Anderson 9780415253093
RRP: £37.99£33.78Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century.Drawing on a wide range of documents, from... -
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter 9781839830303
RRP: £14.99£10.93Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the... -
South Benfleet: A History by Robert Hallmann
RRP: £15.99£12.83A history of South Benfleet.Book InformationISBN 9781860773594Author Robert HallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 185mm * 20mm -
The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the present by Anthony Clayton 9781405859011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.99£4.04An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of... -
The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the present by Anthony Clayton 9781405859011
£36.02An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of... -
The Knights Templar in Yorkshire by Diane Holloway
RRP: £17.99£13.84Where can you see an effigy of a Templar? What prompted King John to hand England over to an Italian? Who worked for the Templars in Yorkshire? The Knights Templar in Yorkshire answers all these questions and many more. This new book explores what... -
Jersey Legends by Erren Michaels 9780750965880
RRP: £12.99£9.87With fairies and dragons, witches and werewolves, the picturesque island of Jersey boasts legends as varied and powerful as any within the British Isles. From its golden beaches to its treacherous cliffs, Jersey is alive with mysterious stories as...