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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian... -
Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives by Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: £14.99£11.11Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theatres of war which established them as two of the greatest captains of... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £14.99£8.56Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and... -
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin 9780141010229
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305817
RRP: £10.99£7.611974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Mesopotamia by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: £12.99£11.46A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation's post-independence years "Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most important creators of European culture at work today. His... -
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind by Dr. Lynne Kelly
RRP: £20.00£14.69In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us... -
The Longest Story: How humans have loved, hated and misunderstood other species Richard Girling 9780861543533
RRP: £12.99£8.41'Lucid, informed and persuasive' Evening Standard 'Thought-provoking' Daily Mail 'An extraordinary book' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history of humanity's relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals... -
A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World by Peter Kingsley 9781890350215
RRP: £12.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890350215Author Peter KingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Publisher Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Weight(grams) 350g -
Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females Kate Hodges 9781781319260
RRP: £18.99£13.15Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, these are women who go beyond long-haired, smiling... -
The Cold War Norman Friedman 9780233005911
RRP: £7.99£5.78A graphic account of this long-running global drama, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is published in a new era of fear and uncertainty. It encompasses moments of high tension, such as the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the... -
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99£9.96A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of... -
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £18.99£13.61The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is... -
Access to History: The Cold War 1941-95 Fourth Edition by David Williamson
£22.12Exam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History by Philip D. Curtin 9780521629430
RRP: £37.99£32.57Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its... -
Magic: A Very Short Introduction by Owen Davies 9780199588022
RRP: £8.99£6.01Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but... -
Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen 9780807849323
£41.25This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist... -
Transition to Global Rivalry: Alliance Diplomacy and the Quadruple Entente, 1895-1907 by John Albert White 9780521474450
RRP: £105.00£88.31During the years before the First World War, the realignment of world powers resulted in agreements concluded in 1904 and 1907 between Britain, France, Russia and Japan. John Albert White terms this a Quadruple Entente, a more accurate and complete... -
The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain by Penelope J. Corfield
RRP: £12.99£11.46A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global... -
I Believe In Yesterday: A 2000 year Tour through the Filth and Fury of Living History by Tim Moore
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the hardships and... -
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943 by Stephane Groueff 9781568331140
RRP: £25.00£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331140Author Stephane GroueffFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm... -
Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier by Peter Stark 9780062218308
RRP: £19.99£13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062218308Author Peter StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
RRP: £20.99£18.34Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton
RRP: £12.00£9.42From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by... -
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century by Michael Howard 9780198204282
£50.84Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel... -
A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich 9780300108835
RRP: £16.99£15.01The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time." So begins A Little... -
Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict by Julian Thompson 9780091932374 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign.In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese - an enemy more... -
Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict by Julian Thompson
RRP: £16.99£12.28From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign.In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese - an enemy more... -
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley
RRP: £12.99£11.46The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful... -
Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780471686132
£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471686132Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Shooting Stars: 10 Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig 9781782270508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£5.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The West: A New History in 14 Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: £22.00£16.27*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
Uncommon Grounds (New edition): The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
RRP: £20.00£19.14First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as... -
Death Dealer: The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz by Rudolph Hoss 9780306806988
RRP: £21.99£15.07SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoess (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is a new, unexpurgated... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
RRP: £14.99£9.96Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated... -
The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy 9780008150266
RRP: £80.00£54.71The ultimate work of historical reference 'The Times Complete History of the World' is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. It has sold over 2.25 million copies and has been translated... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£3.071974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: £14.99£10.051974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: £18.99£12.93Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the...