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Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
RRP: £15.99£14.24Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined... -
The Illustrated History of Nottingham's Suburbs by Geoffrey Oldfield 9781780911120
RRP: £14.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911120Author Geoffrey OldfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
The County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil by Carolyn Jacob 9780752400129 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.87A history of the county borough of Merthyr TydfilBook InformationISBN 9780752400129Author Carolyn JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
The County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil by Carolyn Jacob 9780752400129
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of the county borough of Merthyr TydfilBook InformationISBN 9780752400129Author Carolyn JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Secret Gloucester by Christine Jordan
RRP: £15.99£10.85Sheltered by the Cotswolds, the streets of Gloucester hide many secrets. Using vast knowledge Christine Jordan explores the rich heritage that can be seen embedded throughout the streets of this historic city. From visually obvious fragments of the past... -
My Scandalous Viscount: Number 5 in series by Gaelen Foley
RRP: £7.99£2.91To London society, the Inferno Club is notorious for its scandalous pursuits. In private, these warriors would risk their lives for king and country.Sebastian, Viscount Beauchamp, lives by a code of honour, and now honour dictates he must marry Miss... -
Yorkshire's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories by Leonora Rustamova 9781907554919
RRP: £9.99£6.64A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of God's Own Country, including vampires, tigers and aliens. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Yorkshire, or as it is sometimes beautifully referred to, God's Own County... -
The Flower Market Year: 12 Months at New Covent Garden Flower Market by Simon Lycett
RRP: £30.00£19.80The New Covent Garden Flower Market plays an integral part in Simon Lycett's life as a florist and has done for the last 25 years. Originally opened in London's Covent Garden in 1670, the Market moved to Nine Elms in Vauxhall in November 1974 and became... -
Parisian Days by Banine
RRP: £16.99£11.27The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is free for the first time in her life. She has fled her ruined homeland and unhappy forced marriage for a dazzling new future in Paris. Now she cuts her hair, wears short skirts, mingles... -
Dartmoor In Old Photographs by Tom Greeves 9780752431468
RRP: £12.99£8.32This fascinating volume of archive pictures recalls life as it once was on Dartmoor: the towns, the villages and the local people who lived and worked on the moor between the 1860s and 1950s. Illustrated with over 200 archive photographs and postcards,... -
The Great Wall by John Man 9780553817683 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29China's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world's most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a... -
The Great Wall by John Man 9780553817683
RRP: £10.99£7.77China's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world's most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a... -
September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy by Associated Press
RRP: £30.00£21.00A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 as told through stories and photographs from The Associated Press-covering everything from the events of that tragic day to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and beyond.This important and... -
The Burning Roses: The Morland Dynasty, Book 29 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
RRP: £10.99£7.40In 1915 the first euphoria of the war has worn off, but the nation is more determined than ever to win. When Ned is sent to the Front ahead of his battalion, Jessie, already involved in various charity works, feels the need to do more and becomes an... -
Peterborough in 50 Buildings by Lorna Talbott 9781398113596
RRP: £15.99£10.85In the seventh century the Anglo-Saxons built an abbey dedicated to St Peter, where the Roman Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. The town around the abbey came to be known as St Peter's Burgh, and is dominated today by the cathedral on the site... -
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell
RRP: £12.99£8.60By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to... -
Anglo-Indian Cuisine - A Legacy of Flavours from the Past: Authentic Anglo-Indian Recipes by Bridget White 9781477251638
£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477251638Author Bridget WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Religio Medici And Urne-Buriall by Sir Thomas Browne
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174883Author Sir Thomas BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Blind Jack of Knaresborough by Arnold Kellett
RRP: £14.99£11.55Jack Metcalf was blinded by smallpox at the age of six, but he did not let this stop him from leading an astonishing and adventurous life - becoming an expert horseman, gambler and guide. He eloped at the age of twenty-one; ran numerous enterprises;... -
The Turkic Peoples in World History by Joo-Yup Lee 9781032170015
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The "Turks"... -
The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex Identities in the Atlantic World by Professor Harald E. Braun
RRP: £135.00£117.68Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined... -
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang
RRP: £22.50£21.68"If you buy only one work on pre-modern Chinese history this year, make it this one."-W. S. Atwell, HistoryWinner of the American Book Award for History In 1587, the Year of the Pig, nothing very special happened in China. Yet in the seemingly... -
Acts of Union and Disunion by Linda Colley
RRP: £9.99£7.11The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley... -
Voices of Stanley by Jo Bath 9780752460376
RRP: £12.99£9.62Voices of Stanley is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, recalling life in the area between 1880 and 1950. Vivid memories are recounted, including childhood and schooldays, work and... -
Little Germany: A History of Bradford's Germans by Susan Duxbury-Neumann
RRP: £16.99£11.47Little Germany takes us back to the nineteenth century, when Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the wool capital of the world. Over the centuries, Germany and Great Britain have been close trading partners. When Bradford became renowned for its rapidly... -
A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe 9780486404882
RRP: £24.99£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404882Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Secret Ipswich by Susan Gardiner
RRP: £15.99£10.85Ipswich, the largest and county town of Suffolk, takes its name from the medieval name 'Gippeswic'. Over its more than 1,000-year history, Ipswich has acquired a mix of the unexpected, strange, weird and wonderful examples of buildings and the people... -
Gerrard Winstanley: The Digger's Life and Legacy by John Gurney
RRP: £24.99£16.38Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under... -
Making Edwardian Costumes for Women by Suzanne Rowland
RRP: £25.00£24.18Edwardian fashions for women were characterized by the S-shaped silhouette, embellished with lace, tucks, ruffles, tassels, frills and flounces. This essential book includes eleven detailed projects, which form a capsule collection of clothing and... -
Chester History Tour by Paul Hurley
RRP: £8.99£6.02As soon as we set foot in Chester we are taken back to the Middle Ages; time seems to have slipped backwards. Is it a dream? Or are these decorated timber-framed houses, like big doll's houses, actually for ordinary habitation. We look around and see a... -
Yesterday's Cardiff Revisited: Britain in Old Photographs by Brian Lee 9780752465296
RRP: £13.99£10.85Following the success of Yesterday's Cardiff, Brian Lee has returned, accompanied by his daughter Amanda Harvey, to take the reader on a further pictorial journey through the Cardiff of yesteryear. Drawing on their detailed knowledge of the city's... -
Abandoned Places: Where time has stopped by Richard Happer
RRP: £16.99£11.87Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting in decay. Stories, facts and photographs... -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil 9780691149097
RRP: £25.00£19.99When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of... -
Secret Ripon by David Winpenny
RRP: £15.99£11.61Ripon is one of England's smallest cities, and has a long history that encompasses saints, actors, marquesses, mayors, murderers, writers and eccentrics. Its Hornblower sets the watch each evening in a tradition said to be more than a thousand years old... -
This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond by Mike Jay 9780500518977 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.95£11.70Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of... -
This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond by Mike Jay
RRP: £24.95£17.35Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of... -
Harlem Shadows: Poems by Claude McKay
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242681Author Claude McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Generals: From Defeat to Victory, Leadership in Asia 1941-1945 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £12.99£8.60In December 1941, as the Japanese army led by Yamashita scythed through Malaya to capture Singapore, Britain's defence of its Asian colonies collapsed. Poor preparation and inadequate leadership saw the British exposed to a new type of warfare in the Far... -
Scotland from Pre-History to the Present by Fiona Watson
RRP: £14.99£11.55From the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution of the Scottish people - as Scots, Picts and Angles - and their interaction with the world abroad, from... -
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: £27.99£24.18Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical...