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Hunter of Stories Eduardo Galeano 9781472128867
RRP: $20.98$14.70'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and entertain' Morning StarThe internationally acclaimed last work... -
Ceredigion Folk Tales by Peter Stevenson 9780752486444
RRP: $27.28$23.46Ceredigion is a land shaped by mythology, where mermaids and magic mix with humans and where ordinary people achieve extraordinary things. This is a captivating collection of traditional and modern stories, including the submerged city of Cantre'r... -
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death of God Peter Watson 9780753828106
RRP: $31.48$21.95The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise... -
Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Leo van Bergen 9781138270053
RRP: $113.38$100.02Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination. The unprecedented scale and mechanization of the war changed forever... -
The Streets of Louth: An A-Z History by Caitlin Green 9780957033634
RRP: $29.69$26.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957033634Author Caitlin GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lindes PressPublisher Lindes PressWeight(grams) 367g -
Ghosts & Gravestones of York by Philip Lister 9780752443577
RRP: $31.48$24.26With its long history of conflict and many tragic events, York boasts more than its fair share of ghosts, ghouls, phantoms and things that go bump in the night. In fact, York claims to be 'Europe's most haunted city', and sometimes it seems as though a... -
The Berlin Airlift: The Relief Operation that Defined the Cold War by Barry Turner
RRP: $42.00$28.71Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history ofthe Cold War's defining episode.Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in adivided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles insideSoviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin... -
Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical by Walter Reid 9781780276748
RRP: $52.50$49.94Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler's credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed 'peace in our time'. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the... -
A Bucket of Sunshine: Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron by Wing Commander Mike Brooke 9780752470214
RRP: $27.28$20.73A Bucket of Sunshine - a term coined by RAF aircrew for the nuclear bomb that their aircraft would be armed with - is a first-hand insight into life in the mid-1960s on a RAF Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany, on the frontline in the Cold... -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by David Freidel 9780688112042
$45.42The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya... -
Slant by Katherine O'Donnell 9781848408388
RRP: $31.48$26.88'A heartfelt celebration of all kinds of queer love' Alice Linehan, Gay Community News A ground-breaking Irish lesbian love story, set across the decades from the 1980s AIDS crisis to the 2015 marriage referendum. Ro McCarthy, single in her... -
Toy Trains by Bob Leggett
RRP: $18.88$15.06The 00 gauge train set was the ultimate 'boy's toy' of the 1950s and '60s. Electric 00 gauge trains were introduced by Trix and Hornby Dublo in the mid-1930s, but the Second World War quickly halted production. However, they burst back onto the post-war... -
A-Z of Dinosaurs by Kieron Connolly
RRP: $14.68$10.82The names of dinosaurs are some of the first impressively long words that children learn. From Apatosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex to Zephyrosaurus, The A-Z of Dinosaurs presents 26 fun dinosaurs to learn the names of. Each dinosaur is illustrated with an... -
Pontypridd Revisited by Anne Powell
RRP: $27.28$20.73The town of Pontypridd has seen many changes over the years. This edition contains old photographs of Pontypridd that takes the reader on a journey back in time to discover why this frontier town was born out of the industrialisation of its surrounding... -
A History of Norwich by Frank Meeres
RRP: $46.20$35.89Norwich has a rich and fascinating history. An important Anglo-Saxon market town at the time of the Norman invasion, it grew to become one of the leading cities of England by the early Middle Ages and second only to London in the 16th and 17th centuries... -
Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism by Daniel Diehl
RRP: $27.28$20.73Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of... -
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon
$30.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194162Author Robert GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 618g -
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang
RRP: $47.25$45.53"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... -
The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection: Celebrating the Game's Greatest Players James Buckley Jr. 9780760385517
RRP: $39.88$28.88Officially licensed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, this revised and updated volume gathers the biographies, statistics, and photos of over 175 members of the most exclusive club in the sport.A beautiful book every baseball fan should own, The... -
Napoleon Wasn't Short and St Patrick Wasn't Irish: When History Gets It Wrong by Andrea Barham 9781782430360 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.39After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback. The moment has come to set the record straight, once and for all. Leading the way in this modern crusade comes Napoleon Wasn't Short and St... -
The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade Raymond C. Howell 9781032313429
RRP: $60.88$53.53The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade, first published in 1987, offers a detailed analysis of the Royal Navy's slave trade suppression on the East Coast of Africa - an area often neglected in studies of the campaigns against the slavers. It traces the naval... -
Britain at Bay: Defence Against Bonaparte, 1803-14 Richard Glover 9781032037578
RRP: $60.88$52.69In the years 1803-5 Napoleon Bonaparte built 4 new harbours on his channel coast and assembled enough landing craft to put an army of over 165,000 men ashore on English beaches. Was this threat to Britain really serious and should we dismiss it as pure... -
Boatlines: Scottish Craft of Sea, Coast and Canal by Ian Stephen
RRP: $35.68$24.70People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so... -
World History of Warfare by Christon I. Archer 9780803244238
$124.34World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history from ancient times to the present. Its principal theme is an exploration of change and continuity,... -
British Armour in the Normandy Campaign by John Buckley
RRP: $92.38$80.72The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended... -
MEDIAEVAL ANCESTORS OF THE HOUSE OF PENIARTH Part 1 by Sue Passmore 9780244656744
RRP: $25.20$23.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244656744Author Sue PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
Machiavelli by Robert Black 9780582784062
RRP: $77.68$75.89Machiavelli is history's most startling political commentator. Recent interpreters have minimised his originality, but this book restores his radicalism. Robert Black shows a clear development in Machiavelli's thought. In his most subversive works The... -
Walking the Old Ways of Radnorshire by Andy & Karen Johnson 9781910839072
RRP: $27.28$23.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839072Author Andy & Karen JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Eighth Wonder of the World: Exbury Gardens and the Rothschilds by Lionel de Rothschild 9781916040205
RRP: $63.00$43.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916040205Author Lionel de RothschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Exbury Gardens LtdPublisher Exbury Gardens Ltd -
Politics of Heroin, New Edn****o/p by Alfred W. McCoy 9781556524837
RRP: $60.80$50.76The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global... -
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
RRP: $33.58$30.37Lucie 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... -
Wigstons by Duncan Lucas 9780752436739
RRP: $35.68$27.57A collection of approximately 200 archive images of The Wigstons, accompanied by captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752436739Author Duncan LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
A History of the Wind by A Corbin
RRP: $35.68$24.59Everyone knows the wind's touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas... -
The Story of Sheppey by John Clancy
RRP: $39.88$30.53The Isle of Sheppey, just 9 miles long and 4 miles wide, is situated in the Thames Estuary at the mouth of the Medway. It is a mysterious and ancient place, separated from the mainland by arm and of the sea known as The Swale. Sheppey, once mainly known... -
His Lordship's Pleasure M. C. Beaton 9781472111968
RRP: $16.78$12.14Annabelle Carruthers can only dream of being kissed by a man as dashing as Lord Darkwood. She remains locked in misery - married to a rakish drunk who gambles their lives into financial and social ruin.His sudden death - and rumours of spies and... -
The World of El CID: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest by Simon Barton 9780719052262
RRP: $41.98$38.01Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of Leon-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of... -
A Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley
RRP: $25.18$8.84From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and... -
Liverpool Ghost signs: A Sideways Look at the City's Advertising History by Caroline Bunford 9780752465708
RRP: $27.28$20.73Take a photographic journey into Liverpool's often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne
RRP: $73.48$59.87This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
War's Forgotten Women: British Widows of the Second World War by Helen D. Millgate 9780752461793 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.71The Second World War widows were the 'forgotten women', largely ignored by the government and the majority of the population. The men who died in the service of their country were rightly honoured, but the widows and orphans they left behind were soon...