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Roman Legionary 109-58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great by Ross Cowan
RRP: €17.84€13.03The 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... -
I Believe In Yesterday: A 2000 year Tour through the Filth and Fury of Living History by Tim Moore
RRP: €20.22€14.61In 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... -
Slate Quarrying in Wales: A Gazetteer by Des Marshall 9781845245382
€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245382Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch CyfDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 15mm -
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: €15.46€10.09Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip... -
Alamein by Stephen Bungay 9781854109293
RRP: €17.84€11.66El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in... -
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill
RRP: €23.80€17.48Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at... -
Hardcore History: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today by Dan Carlin
RRP: €13.08€8.63THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time,... -
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
RRP: €32.07€30.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)... -
Luftwaffe Mistel Composite Bomber Units by Robert Forsyth
RRP: €20.22€16.78The striking appearance of Luftwaffe's Mistel Composite attack aircraft might seem ridiculous to modern eyes, but employed correctly, these original 'fire and forget' weapons were devastatingly effective, as Allied sources testify. This book draws on a... -
Strategy: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780199325153
RRP: €36.28€27.16In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade... -
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 9780375760525
RRP: €29.75€19.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002. Nominated for Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction... -
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
RRP: €13.08€8.71'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: €27.95€21.27Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent... -
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jon Parshall 9781574889246
RRP: €33.31€29.62Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony... -
Anzio: The Friction of War by Lloyd Clark
RRP: €13.08€8.81This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'. ANZIO - THE... -
Jerusalem: History of a Global City by Juliana Froggatt 9780520299900
RRP: €35.70€26.51An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless,... -
Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 by Noel Malcolm
RRP: €37.47€26.58From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the... -
History as They Saw It: Iconic Moments from the Past in Color (Coffee Table Books, Historical Books, Art Books) by Wolfgang Wild 9781452169507
RRP: €50.58€45.30Apologies 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... -
Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery by Monica Juneja
RRP: €52.96€47.56The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,... -
Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia by Stevan K. Pavlowitch
RRP: €23.79€21.21The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that... -
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction by Rab Houston
RRP: €10.70€7.68Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: €23.79€20.87Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that... -
Map: Exploring The World by Phaidon Editors 9780714869445 [USED COPY]
RRP: €47.54€6.94300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Map, Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge... -
To Cure All Ills: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails by Camper English
RRP: €20.22€17.98Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award 2022 An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world's foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The... -
The Mudd Club by Richard Boch 9781627310512
RRP: €36.88€25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: €28.56€23.94The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C... -
Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark: Essays by Michael Löwy 9781642599824
RRP: €23.79€16.37Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Loewy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Loewy's essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in... -
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: €22.60€15.33WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this... -
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
RRP: €26.18€18.46A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and... -
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
RRP: €11.89€7.63In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued-through the tenure of ten American... -
1492 by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781408809501
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Fernandez-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded... -
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
RRP: €13.08€9.25A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians,... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: €35.69€30.43A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket... -
Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Expanded and Updated Edition by Jonathan L. Lee 9781789145885
RRP: €29.75€20.97In 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... -
Tibetan Civilization by R. A. Stein
RRP: €29.74€25.79A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804709019Author R. A. SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 408g -
The Economic History of Colonialism by Leigh Gardner
RRP: €29.74€23.07Debates about the origins and effects of European rule in the non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the 1850s. This pioneering text provides a concise and accessible resource that introduces key readings, builds connections... -
The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk by Sverker Johansson 9781529411416 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€7.54"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.Drawing on evidence... -
The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk by Sverker Johansson
RRP: €15.46€10.23"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.Drawing on evidence... -
A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat 9781405181198
RRP: €34.45€31.74A 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,... -
Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World by J C Sharman
RRP: €20.22€16.24How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions...