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Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor 9780241308295
RRP: £30.00£21.95A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts... -
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye 9780571348411
RRP: £20.00£3.83For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied... -
A History of Food Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat (President of the Syndicate of French Writers) 9781405181198
RRP: £28.95£27.06A HISTORY OF FOOD This classic work is an exploration and celebration of man's relationship with food from earliest times to the present day. Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat tells the story of cuisine and the social history of food, taking in fascinating,... -
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic by Hauke Friederichs
RRP: £10.99£7.99November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781857152340
RRP: £20.00£14.91Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to... -
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents by Charles D. Smith
£41.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319115746Author Charles D. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan LearningWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
The Little Book Of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages by Meghan Laslocky 9780452298323
£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298323Author Meghan LaslockyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 202g -
Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Charles Dickens' Legendary A Christmas Carol by Carlo DeVito 9781604337792
RRP: £9.99£6.84Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.When Charles Dickens created the story that would become A Christmas Carol, little did... -
The Cragg Vale Coiners' Walk by Christopher Goddard 9780995450219
RRP: £5.99£5.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450219Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher Goddard -
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur Ben Kiernan 9780300144253
RRP: £25.00£24.34A book of surpassing importance that should be required reading for leaders and policymakers throughout the world For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in... -
The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga by Constantine Pleshakov 9780465024636
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History as They Saw It: Iconic Moments from the Past in Color (Coffee Table Books, Historical Books, Art Books) by Wolfgang Wild 9781452169507
RRP: £42.50£38.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452169507Author Wolfgang WildFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 1610gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 251mm... -
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £9.99£8.45This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.Book InformationISBN 9781583670255Author Aime... -
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott
RRP: £14.99£12.75As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head. Britain's Empire recounts the long overlooked narrative of the resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood... -
1966: My World Cup Story by Sir Bobby Charlton
RRP: £12.99£9.34Wembley, 1966. England wins the World Cup to roars of a euphoric home crowd.Sir Bobby Charlton, England's greatest ever player, was there on the pitch. In 1966, he looks back on the most glorious moment of his life and England's greatest sporting... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: £25.00£16.83'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: £14.99£9.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: £9.99£6.72"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century by Samuel P. Huntington
£37.12Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political... -
The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty by Helen Hackett
RRP: £25.00£20.92The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today-although their answers were often startlingly... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel
RRP: £18.99£15.35The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £10.99£7.99A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
RRP: £16.99£12.47Throughout 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 Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers 9781451651140
RRP: £20.99£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651140Author Thomas ChildersFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 9781789147582
RRP: £16.99£12.47The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad... -
The Dragon: Fear and Power by Martin Arnold
RRP: £30.00£22.29Dragons 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... -
Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism by Andrea D'Atri
RRP: £18.99£12.94Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? This book is a journey through the history of feminism. Using the concrete struggles of women, the Marxist feminist Andrea D'Atri... -
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky 9781503637740
RRP: £24.99£22.01Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established... -
True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: World History: 500 Preposterous Facts They Definitely Didn’t Teach You in School by Shane Carley 9781400340873
RRP: £9.99£6.84Turkeys used to be worshipped as gods? Bull$#*t! Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 world history facts that sound too absurd to be true.Knowledge is power! Crush the competition at trivia night or start the most interesting... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Wars of Independence, 1286-1328 Michele Sine Duck 9781398345454
£21.16Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
The Oxford Handbook of Sports History by Robert Edelman
£48.52Orwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting", nor are they "war by other means." To be sure sports have generated animosity throughout human history, but they also require rules to which the participants agree to abide before the contest... -
Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay 9780812971422
RRP: £23.00£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971422Author Victoria FinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages by Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
RRP: £7.95£5.95Even now, the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages overwhelm us by their imagination, technical daring and sheer scale. How could such structures be built when cities had only a few thousand inhabitants and only the most primitive machinery was available?... -
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony R Wells
RRP: £25.00£17.90"Few people are as uniquely well equipped as Anthony Wells to write an account of these close and special relationships. His penetrating and informed analysis offers us all hope for the continuance of an alliance which makes the world a safer place." -... -
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West by Matthew P. Mayo 9780762754311
RRP: £14.99£12.79The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass's six week... -
The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple 9780006547754
RRP: £12.99£8.71William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and... -
Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton
RRP: £12.99£11.46An "enlightening and persuasive" (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking... -
Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Expanded and Updated Edition Jonathan L. Lee 9781789145885
RRP: £25.00£17.90In this monumental, authoritative new history of Afghanistan, Jonathan L. Lee places the current conflict in its historical context and challenges many of the West's preconceived ideas about the country. Lee chronicles the region's monarchic rules and... -
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £16.99£12.28Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field
RRP: £7.99£3.66An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book...