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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser 9780714685007
RRP: £28.99£25.09This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War... -
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell
RRP: £16.99£11.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry... -
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession by David Grann 9781849830669
RRP: £9.99£6.41By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and... -
A History Of God by Karen Armstrong 9780099273677 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.52The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often... -
A History Of God by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £12.99£9.09The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often... -
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: £12.99£9.09There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. Its scope and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. By examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement... -
The Black Jacobins by Nick Broten
RRP: £6.50£6.11Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring. Other forms of history - the histories of gender, class, rebellion and nonconformity - add much-needed context and color to our... -
The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy by Alan R. MacDonald
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is the first detailed discussion of the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625). It offers a refreshing new perspective on the Reformed Kirk during the crucial period in its development. It is an... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£9.80The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.Hobsbawm's classic... -
The West Yorkshire Moors: A hand-drawn guide to walking and exploring all of the county of West Yorkshire's open access moorland by Christopher Goddard 9780995560970
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995560970Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gritstone PublishingPublisher Gritstone Publishing -
A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre 9781408851784 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.40**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE 'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday... -
A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £10.99£7.51**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE 'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday... -
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
RRP: £12.99£9.09Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office in five successive regimes from France's Ancient Regime, into the... -
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps by Helen Morgan
RRP: £14.99£9.80In September 1847 coloured squares of paper were stuck to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No-one at the party would have guessed that the envelopes bearing these stamps would one... -
Regimes of Memory by Katharine Hodgkin
RRP: £43.99£38.44The fields of literature, history, philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of recent interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imaginationThis collection represents and explores these current developments... -
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
RRP: £8.99£6.20As discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus.In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: £16.99£11.47The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek 9781848871571
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period; he... -
The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories by Patrick Baker
RRP: £9.99£6.70Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards - Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones... -
Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750 by Professor Robert J. Morris
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimation of authority. At the heart of the book is a set of topics which have long attracted the attention of... -
Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £9.99£7.67Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture - but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral... -
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99£14.01'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture that marked the beginning of the modern world. At a time... -
Bradford Pubs by Paul Jennings 9780752433028
RRP: £15.99£12.25This fascinating volume tells the story of Bradford's pubs over two centuries of history. Illustrated with over 150 old photographs, plans and advertisements, the collection recalls the pubs, the people who ran them, the customers who frequented them adn... -
Columbine by Dave Cullen
RRP: £16.99£11.54**THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER AND CLASSIC**'Excellent . . . amazing how much still comes as a surprise' New York Times Book Review'Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who and the what of a horrifying incident to lay bare the... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780199591961
RRP: £14.99£11.53Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He... -
Images of Glasgow: A Pictorial History of Clydeside's People and Places by Robert Jeffrey
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859836651Author Robert JeffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Breedon Books Publishing Co LtdPublisher Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.11The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
RRP: £12.99£8.60When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony... -
The Black Death by Sean Martin
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of... -
Life Below Stairs: in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House by Sian Evans 9781907892110 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.70The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the physical evidence can be seen in surviving servants' quarters, the material of their everyday life, even their... -
Number plates: A History of Vehicle Registration in Britain by Dave Moss 9780747805663
RRP: £6.99£5.87This title contains Ancient history: the prologue; The golden age of motoring; The post-war years: changing times, change, and change again: the arrival of computers; Modern times: a fresh start; Collectors' gold; Islands and Ireland; Curiosities and... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.98The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
A Grim Almanac of Kent by W. H. Johnson
RRP: £14.99£11.55In A Grim Almanac of Kent, W.H. Johnson has discovered a sinister, macabre or horrifying occurrence for every day of the year, and presents his readers with 365 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic events. The wicked, the mad, the foolish and the... -
Born in 1936. Birthday Nostalgia. by Kerry Butters 9781533532688
RRP: £6.99£6.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533532688Author Kerry ButtersFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: £16.99£12.68THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.51THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£5.92The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph... -
The Gold of the Gods by Erich von Daniken 9781948803212
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803212Author Erich von DanikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g