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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
RRP: $27.28$18.65THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator 'A masterful performance' Sunday Times 'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became... -
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
RRP: $27.28$19.09The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men... -
Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes
RRP: $39.90$24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708220Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
The Uses and Abuses of History by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $18.88$13.55The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to... -
A History of the World in 500 Maps by Christian Grataloup 9780500252659
RRP: $73.50$49.20Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day. Organized chronologically, A History of the World in 500 Maps tells a clear, linear story, bringing together themes as diverse as religion,... -
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin
RRP: $27.28$15.77A Spectator Book of the Year'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review'A terrific storyteller' New York Times'Exceptional . . . tender and beautifully written' Country LifeThe groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on... -
The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
RRP: $20.98$14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083243Author James HeneageFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe
RRP: $27.28$17.81Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. 'Countries are... -
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukacs 9780850361971
RRP: $42.00$37.46Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. "When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order," Marx declares, "it does no more than disclose the secret of its own existence, for... -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
RRP: $31.48$23.00'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMESLISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMESThe harrowing, survival... -
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083250Author Linda JaivinFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Battles Map by Map by DK
RRP: $63.00$41.81Explore the world's most famous battles by their geography as you uncover the most ancient, medieval and modern combats in history.If you're interested in finding out more about the biggest battles fought throughout the ages, then this war book is... -
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: $23.08$7.37A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all... -
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World by Otto English
RRP: $23.08$15.54'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time.Lincoln did not believe... -
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook 9781846681202 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$14.41'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer leans toward a laughing girl; in another, a woman... -
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer leans toward a laughing girl; in another, a woman... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris 9781846682087 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$5.06In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris
RRP: $31.48$23.84In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons... -
The Templars by Dan Jones 9781781858929
RRP: $25.18$17.12Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS 'Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render... -
Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
RRP: $23.08$18.67'A book of wonders' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times Books of the YearWinner of the Wainwright Prize 2022 - Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, showing why reclaiming a diverse food culture is vital... -
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China by John Man
RRP: $23.08$16.32Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia... -
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund 9781847924803
RRP: $52.50$37.84**A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVORAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs... -
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
RRP: $23.08$15.77Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The TimesFor billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting... -
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
RRP: $35.68$25.07A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776) by Peter Moore
RRP: $52.50$37.00Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE... -
History of the World Map by Map by DK 9780241601006
RRP: $63.00$45.78Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer... -
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: $31.48$23.00From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama... -
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
RRP: $27.28$19.09For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman... -
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $58.78$32.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063051331Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 885g -
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus 9780008567972
RRP: $54.60$22.24'A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ... ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED' DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW 'AN INTELLIGENT, AUTHORITATIVE, COMPELLING AND, ABOVE ALL, TIMELY' TLS ... -
In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present by Michael R.J. Bonner
RRP: $37.78$25.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823060Author Michael RJ BonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Access to History: The American Revolution and the Birth of the USA 1740-1801, Third Edition by Vivienne Sanders
RRP: $46.20$44.92Exam 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 World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book... -
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose
RRP: $23.08$16.32Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded... -
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor 9780241951774 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... -
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $35.68$25.79Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... -
Access to History: Britain 1951-2007 Third Edition by Michael Lynch
$53.78Exam 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... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: $27.28$17.81A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... -
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471159459
RRP: $52.50$35.36A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS 'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr 'A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' - Jonathan RossThe Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but... -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver 9781529176780 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$15.60THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors.For all we have gained in the modern world,...