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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project by Leslie Groves
RRP: £15.99£10.14General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for... -
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
RRP: £22.00£13.83A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY'Forty-thousand years of our relationship with time condensed into 288 pages: a hugely entertaining achievement.' ESQUIRE'5/5 A true joy... -
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
RRP: £10.99£8.02The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead... -
Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R Polk 9780061236204
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061236204Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231g -
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 by Stephen R Bown 9780312616113
RRP: £32.50£20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312616113Author Stephen R BownFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610322
RRP: £25.00£15.95From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
KS3 History Complete Study and Practice by CGP Books
RRP: £11.99£10.95Don't miss CGP's superb all-in-one Complete Revision & Practice book for KS3 History. It's bursting with study notes and sources covering fascinating topics from 1066 to 21st Century. There are plenty of practice questions and worked questions to help... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 9781408839997
RRP: £16.99£11.08For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9–1) History by Alec Fisher
RRP: £18.99£15.63Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel QualificationsExam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: International GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History with this proven... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times'Full of amazing facts' ObserverChallenges some of the greatest cliches about... -
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World by Otto English
RRP: £10.99£7.30'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO 'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time. Lincoln did not... -
Lessons of History by Will Durant
RRP: £9.99£6.66In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their five decades of work on the eleven monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization... -
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £16.99£12.28Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: £9.99£6.95Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter... -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
RRP: £9.99£6.66WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads Hundreds of peaceful civilians were... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view both of the past and the present' Carlo Rovelli, The Observer*What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
RRP: £10.99£8.02THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the... -
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How A Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story by Dimitra Papagianni
RRP: £12.99£8.60There is a little Neanderthal in all of us. Although they have been extinct for 40,000 years, our genetic inheritance means that they are not entirely gone. Since the publication of the first Neanderthal genome in 2010, our understanding of the... -
An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe
RRP: £12.99£8.73Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. 'Countries are... -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMESLISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMESThe harrowing, survival... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris
RRP: £12.99£9.74In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons... -
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £12.99£9.34A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... Here is the... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus
RRP: £10.99£7.30From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context. With over... -
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
RRP: £7.99£2.85History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations in 3500 BC to the founding of... -
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: £25.00£16.84* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest books to have been published for many, many years' Alexander... -
Rationalities in History: A Weberian Essay in Comparison by D. L. D'Avray
RRP: £19.99£17.13In Rationalities in History the distinguished historian David d'Avray writes a new comparative history in the spirit of Max Weber. In a strikingly original reassessment of seminal Weberian ideas, d'Avray applies value rationality to the comparative... -
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors by Edward E. Leslie 9780395911501
RRP: £32.50£23.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395911501Author Edward E. LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 563g -
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney
RRP: £10.99£8.02'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
The Galapagos by Henry Nicholls
RRP: £11.99£8.68Formed of dramatic volcanic scenery and home to marvellous beasts, it is little wonder that the first name for the Galapagos archipelago was Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands. In this captivating natural history, Henry Nicholls builds up the ecology... -
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
RRP: £16.99£11.87WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. Kennedy's... -
The Hiram Key: Pharoahs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ by Christopher Knight
RRP: £10.99£8.02Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4, 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller... -
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
RRP: £18.99£12.52From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide.Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary... -
World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age by DK
RRP: £25.00£17.78An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civilization to the present day.A comprehensive and accessible guide to the history of human civilisation,... -
The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: £30.00£19.81Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and other artistic oddities ever made. From the author of... -
History Year by Year: The ultimate visual guide to the events that shaped the world by DK
RRP: £30.00£23.35Discover history's significant events since 3000 BCE through a detailed and dynamic, book-long, timeline! Perfect for history buffs and trivia enthusiasts alike.See history's most decisive moments, as and when they happened, and where they all took place... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd
£7.51A stunningly evocative portrait of everyday life in Hitler's Germany through the stories of the people of a single village. From the bestselling author of Waterstones' Book of the Month, Travellers in the Third Reich. Oberstdorf is a beautiful... -
The Story of the World in 100 Moments: Discover the stories that defined humanity and shaped our world by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804991398Author Neil OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin (Transworld)Publisher Transworld Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 127g -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00£16.53A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
From Bicycle to Bentley, A Bookmaker's Story: by Stephen Little by Rupert Mackeson
RRP: £20.00£14.29Stephen takes the reader from his earliest school days when it became clear he was academically bright, especially in maths, attending prep school, winning a scholarship to major public school Uppingham where he won maths prizes and, aged 16, passed 3 S...