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Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires by Paul Strathern
RRP: £10.99£7.61Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of... -
Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants Paul Craddock 9780241370254
RRP: £18.99£16.78A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon author of 'Life on a Knife's Edge''This is a joyful romp through a fascinating slice of medical history' WENDY MOORE,... -
Women's History and Ancient History by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780807843109
£47.00This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically... -
The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £15.99£10.93From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their... -
Access to History: France in Revolution 1774-1815 Sixth Edition Dylan Rees 9781510457843
£25.61Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; 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... -
OCR A Level History AS: The First Crusade and the Crusader States 1073-1192 by Toby Purser
£30.26* Accessible, engaging and packed with activities to build the skills required * Focused to the latest specification and OCR's support materials * Unique Exam Cafe gives students a motivating way to prepare thoroughly for their exams.Book InformationISBN... -
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
RRP: £25.00£18.30'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW'A thrilling investigation' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'Alive with the spirit of adventure' SIR RANULPH FIENNESThrough eight sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces the evolution... -
Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £18.99£14.01In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British... -
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman 9780007578832
RRP: £9.99£7.12'Based on meticulous research in original sources ... Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was ... Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated' Jenny Uglow, New York... -
Japan: A Short History by Mikiso Hane
RRP: £10.99£7.99What is a shogun? Who were the samurai and what is the warrior code? What lies behind the Japanese work ethic? From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and... -
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken 9780805065893
RRP: £29.99£20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065893Author Gregg HerkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
The History of Sweden by Byron J. Nordstrom 9780313312588
£60.35For many Americans, Sweden used to conjure images of Viking raiders and settlers. By contrast, contemporary Sweden is one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of politics, social welfare, gender equality, standard of living, technology, the... -
Juno Beach: Normandy - Battleground Europe by Tim Saunders 9781844150281
RRP: £12.99£9.34By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and... -
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly
RRP: £10.99£7.61What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In this revealing and highly original study David... -
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: £16.99£12.47The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.99Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this... -
The Desert War: Book 4 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War James Holland 9780718186500
RRP: £7.99£5.98Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?How did they blunt Italy's actions?What challenges did they face?And what new technologies were... -
Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces by Viktor Suvorov 9780393335576
RRP: £18.50£16.07This is the first comprehensive insight for the West into a Soviet "army within an army" whose existence has been known until recently only to a few highly placed people--most of whom would deny it. The spetsnaz Soviet special forces are one of the more... -
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books by Geoffrey Roberts
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300179040Author Geoffrey RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew 9780465003136
£18.98In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as "the most complete and extensive intelligence... -
Roman Legionary 109-58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great by Ross Cowan
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in... -
Socialism: The Real History from Plato to the Present: How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control by William J Federer 9780989649186
RRP: £20.00£12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989649186Author William J FedererPage Count 280Imprint Amerisearch, Inc.Publisher Amerisearch, Inc.Weight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm -
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: £9.99£7.00The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the... -
The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
RRP: £12.99£8.35Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary... -
Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents by Peter Snow 9780233006048 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£8.09A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience between them on political, social, cultural and military history, and today's current affairs, Peter Snow... -
Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents Ann MacMillan 9780233006048
RRP: £30.00£21.00A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience between them on political, social, cultural and military history, and today's current affairs, Peter Snow... -
Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick
RRP: £10.99£7.99*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's... -
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer
RRP: £27.99£24.62In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to... -
Forgotten History of the Western People: From the Earliest Origins by Michael Gascoigne 9780954392208
£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954392208Author Michael GascoigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Anno Mundi BooksPublisher Anno Mundi Books -
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer 9780195121216
RRP: £27.49£19.98A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.About the AuthorDavid Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has won numerous awards for scholarship and teaching, including the Carnegie Prize as... -
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
RRP: £8.99£6.94This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
Lying About Hitler by Richard Evans 9780465021536
£13.96In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the... -
Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 by Martin McCauley
RRP: £36.99£32.53Now in its fifth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle that developed between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.This accessible text explains how the Cold War originated and... -
The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization by Graham Shipley 9780521731508
RRP: £56.99£50.30The Cambridge Guide to Classical Civilization provides an authoritative survey of the classical world, combining the traditional strengths of classical subjects with new approaches examining the social and cultural features of the ancient Greek and Roman... -
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro 9780394528359
RRP: £60.00£47.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780394528359Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £20.00£14.91**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative... -
Access to History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980 for AQA, Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781510459380
£25.61Exam board: AQALevel: 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 Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation, 1945–1955 by Stefan Karner 9781793626608
RRP: £30.00£26.68Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret...