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Access to History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-45 for AQA Third Edition by Geoff Layton
£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 Oxford History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford History of the World... -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition by Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: £51.99£45.59The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
The Revolutions of 1848: Pt. 1 by Karl Marx 9781844676033
RRP: £22.99£20.86Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and... -
A Book of Middle English by Thorlac Turville–Petre
RRP: £37.95£33.76The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation,... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven
RRP: £35.00£24.69From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority... -
Access to History: Napoleon, France and Europe Third Edition by Andrina Stiles
£24.65Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy 9780750999298
RRP: £25.00£18.54Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency's secrets. Despite discrimination -... -
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: £20.00£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036678Author Stephanie CoontzFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Kalmar War, 1611-1613: Gustavus Adolphus's First War by Michael Fredholm Von Essen 9781804510063
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510063Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Penguin History of the Church: The Reformation by Owen Chadwick
RRP: £14.99£10.95The beginning the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. The popes could not hold Western Christendom together and there was confusion about Church reform. What some believed to be abuses, others found... -
Before Endeavours Fade by Rose E.B. Coombs 9781870067621
RRP: £25.00£20.56NOW UPDATED AND IN COLOUR. From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War -- Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le... -
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 30th Anniversary Edition by Alfred W. Crosby 9780275980924
£39.49Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492... -
A Secret Life: The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country by Benjamin Weiser
RRP: £14.99£12.57In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted... -
The Weaker Vessel by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £16.99£11.94Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £25.00£18.62In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella,... -
World War II by Winston Churchill 9780395416853
£102.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395416853Author Winston ChurchillFormat HardbackPage Count 4736Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 8300g -
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
RRP: £11.99£10.15Bill Hayton tells the story of how "China" came to think of itself as China-and what it means for our world today "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism."-Foreign Policy In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's... -
A Dictionary of World History by Anne Kerr 9780199685691
RRP: £14.99£10.95This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate... -
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 by Walton Look Lai
RRP: £30.00£27.35In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major... -
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
RRP: £16.99£12.28Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a... -
The Dragon: Fear and Power by Martin Arnold
RRP: £30.00£21.95Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation's Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial... -
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
RRP: £16.99£11.47The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the... -
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David 9780857206374
RRP: £10.99£7.00In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to... -
A History of Ancient Egypt by Marc Van De Mieroop
RRP: £40.95£36.29Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to... -
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times 'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times 'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare... -
Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia by Tobias Becker 9780674251755
RRP: £29.95£23.66A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity... -
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War by Keith Fisher
RRP: £40.00£29.39'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Wonderfully detailed and colourful' Steven Poole, Daily Telegraph'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael KlarePetroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by... -
Titanic: The Real Story of the Construction of the World's Most Famous Ship by Anton Gill
RRP: £15.99£10.66When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. Built by the great industrial communities that made Britain the pre-eminent superpowerof the age, the famous ocean... -
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen
RRP: £25.00£18.02For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led... -
Two Sides of Hell: They Spent Weeks Killing Each Other. Now Soldiers from Both Sides of the Falklands War Tell Their Story by Vincent Bramley 9781844548217
£12.61The unique and harrowing account of the most destructive battle of the Falklands War as seen through the eyes of eight ordinary Argentinian soldiers from the seventh infantry regiment and five British paratroopers. Vincent Bramley, author of the... -
Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens by Lucile H. Brockway 9780300091434
£19.17This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how... -
What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley 9780330487245 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing military history... -
What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley 9780330487245
RRP: £16.99£12.47Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing military history... -
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb by Thomas Powers 9780306810114
RRP: £26.99£24.11One of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans failed to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics it possessed the raw materials and the industrial base and it commanded key intellectual resources. What happened?In ... -
Convicts: A Global History by Clare Anderson
RRP: £27.99£24.01Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £20.00£14.69**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... -
Great Stagecoach Robberies of the Old West by R. Michael Wilson 9780762741274
RRP: £9.99£7.54Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A "pitching Betsy" would take... -
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the...