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Heroes of the Holocaust: Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference Lyn Smith 9781529107470
RRP: $27.28$19.61In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as 'Heroes of the Holocaust' by the British Government. The silver medal,... -
Heroes of the Holocaust: Ordinary Britons who risked their lives to make a difference by Lyn Smith 9781529107470 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as 'Heroes of the Holocaust' by the British Government. The silver medal,... -
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle by James Donovan
$31.23In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved... -
Warrior Queens by Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126363 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.81An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the Rani of Jhansi, and the... -
Warrior Queens Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126363
RRP: $31.48$21.11An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the Rani of Jhansi, and the... -
Charles I Richard Cust 9781405859035
RRP: $77.68$76.48Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known... -
Thomas Telford by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: $31.48$24.61Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1792, he moved to London where he was involved in building additions to... -
The Chapels and Healings Wells of the Western Isles by Finlay MacLeod 9781789070019
RRP: $20.98$17.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070019Author Finlay MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AcairPublisher Acair -
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation by Margalit Fox
RRP: $27.28$19.30The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the... -
The Deep Rig: How Election Fraud Cost Donald J. Trump the White House, By a Man Who did not Vote for Him (or what to send friends who ask, Why do you doubt the integrity of Election 2020?) by Patrick M Byrne 9780578865935
RRP: $23.08$20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578865935Author Patrick M ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Deep Capture, LLCPublisher Deep Capture, LLCWeight(grams) 152g -
Curious History of Weights & Measures, The by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $31.48$25.28How long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious History of Weights & Measures tells the story of how we... -
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire by Sterling Joseph Coleman
RRP: $83.98$73.63How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral... -
Masters of War: A Visual History of Military Personnel from Commanders to Frontline Fighters by DK
RRP: $52.50$37.53Who were the men and women behind history's most fascinating and famous wars? This military history book reveals it all.Packed with profiles of influential leaders, famous wars and information on weapons and clothing, this military book captivates the... -
Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe J. Andrew Mendelsohn 9781032090580
RRP: $83.98$73.63Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when... -
The Adventuress M.C. Beaton 9781780333090
$24.86The fifth book in M.C. Beaton's charming A House for the Season series. Appearances can be very deceptive...At first, Emily Goodenough and her uncle are exactly what the servants at No. 67 Clarges Street are hoping for: respectable tenants to usher in an... -
The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeenshire by Geoff Holder
RRP: $33.58$26.10This fully-illustrated guide explores all things strange and uncanny, paranormal and peculiar in Aberdeenshire, one of the most scenic parts of Scotland (which also includes part of the Cairngorms National Park). Historic sites and ancient monuments -... -
The Big Oyster: A Molluscular History of New York by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $27.28$19.61When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New... -
Observations on the River Wye William Gilpin 9781843681977
RRP: $31.48$21.11The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. A witty, elegant, opinionated pilgrimage of taste. Complete with 17 aquatints drawn by William Gilpin as examples of perfected landscape. Introduced by... -
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo 9781780745251
RRP: $27.28$19.61Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why does she inspire such extreme... -
The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited by David Lowenthal 9780521616850
RRP: $58.78$49.58The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He... -
The Mould In Dr Florey's Coat: The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax
RRP: $27.28$18.54Many people know that in 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin's antibiotic potential while examining a stray mould that had bloomed in a dish of bacteria in his London laboratory. But few realise that Fleming worked only fitfully on penicillin... -
Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile Julia Fox 9780753826829
RRP: $23.08$15.98Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered Queen, the devoted mother, a woman callously cast aside by a selfish husband besotted by his strumpet of a mistress. Her sister, Juana of Castile, wife of... -
The Ornament Of The World by Maria Rosa Menocal
RRP: $31.48$26.86This classic bestseller - the inspiration for the PBS series - is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles... -
Ayrshire's Lost Villages Dane Love 9781911043027
RRP: $31.50$27.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043027Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd -
Shropshire from Dawn to Dusk by John Hayward
RRP: $42.00$31.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159160Author John Hayward*Format HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 1004g -
Gosport: Then and Now: Postcards from Gosport: ... and a Few from Portsmouth by Phil Hewitt
$33.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913902Author Phil HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Inspector Morse on Location: The Companion to the Original and Bestselling Guide to the Oxford of Inspector Morse Including Lewis Fully Illustrated with Location Maps by Antony Richards 9781901091304
RRP: $18.88$16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091304Author Antony RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
Cheers, MR Churchill!: Winston in Scotland by Andrew Liddle
RRP: $42.00$28.27In 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a 'life... -
A History of British Prime Ministers (Omnibus Edition): Walpole to Cameron by Dick Leonard 9781137574381
RRP: $419.98$151.01Fifty-two men and one woman have held the post of Prime Minister during the past three centuries - from Sir Robert Walpole to David Cameron. In this omnibus edition, which includes Eighteenth-Century British Premiers, Nineteenth-Century British Premiers,... -
Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton
RRP: $23.08$15.83For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the... -
DBMM Army Lists Book 1: The Chariot Period 3000 BC to 500 BC by Phil Barker 9780244520496
RRP: $31.50$28.27This is the first volume in a series of WRG publications providing detailed guidance on the structure and organisation of ancient armies for use with the De Bellis Magistrorum Militum (DBMM) wargame rules.Book InformationISBN 9780244520496Author Phil... -
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason ?. Josephson-Storm
RRP: $58.80$58.36A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress... -
Whitstable by Mick Glover 9780752411125
RRP: $31.48$24.61The recent history of the heritage town of Whitstable, ever famous for its oysters, is vividly recalled in this fascinating collection of over 200 photographs and picture postcards spanning the last one hundred years. A combination of rare and more... -
The London Cabbie by Alf Townsend
RRP: $27.28$20.73Forty years ago Alf Townsend passed The Knowledge - after 14,000 miles on a moped round central London. Since then he has covered millions of miles in his taxi. This book includes a selection of his extraordinary and hilarious tales of everyday life as a... -
Northumberland's Hidden History by Stan Beckensall
RRP: $46.18$32.78Northumberland has a great many attractive sites that are well-recorded, and are frequently visited and written about. However, in this new book Dr Stan Beckensall focuses upon places that are off the beaten track, not so well known, but all of enormous... -
Cotswold Barns by Tim Jordan 9780752437408
RRP: $47.25$24.93The stone barn, especially the long tithe barn, is one of the iconic features of the Cotswold landscape. This book is a systematic look at the design, construction and changing use of the Cotswold barn and its place in the rural economy and landscape... -
Essential Skills for Historians by J. Laurence Hare
$57.10Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a... -
Secret Derby by Maxwell Craven
RRP: $33.58$22.79Derby's history goes back almost 2,000 years, despite a refoundation on a revised site in the tenth century. It is a county town but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was home to a number scientific and entrepreneurial innovators. Their... -
Around Somerset: Britain in Old Photographs by Nick Chipchase
RRP: $27.28$20.73Montague Cooper was probably Somerset's first commercial photographer - certainly the county's finest. He had studios in Taunton, Burnham and Chard, and traveled widely around Somerset in one of the county's first motor cars - often to be spotted in the... -
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India by Katie Hickman
RRP: $20.98$15.98'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by...