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Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those... -
The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin 9780752809328
RRP: $17.53$12.09The original THE BIBLE CODE - a phenomenal bestseller across the worldFor 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future.The code, broken by an Israeli mathematician, foretells... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: $58.50$36.76'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: $21.43$15.15Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling... -
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 by James Holland
RRP: $25.33$17.73The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland,... -
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
RRP: $15.58$10.92If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $21.43$15.15'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill GatesIs flying... -
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: $23.38$17.08'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die 'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder,... -
Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikoetter
RRP: $21.43$14.64A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung,... -
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
RRP: $29.23$22.13'A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war' Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any... -
100 Photographs That Changed the World by Federica Guarnieri 9788854410800
RRP: $48.75$33.29It is no longer words that narrate great historic events but photographs which in an instant can capture the drama of an event and impress its power and significance on us forever. This book features a collection of the 100 most contemporary historic... -
Access to History: Germany: Democracy to Dictatorship c.1918-1945 for WJEC by Nicholas Fellows
$49.16Exam board: WJECLevel: 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 Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus by Lucy Fulford 9781399711173
RRP: $42.90$28.39'A lyrical and penetrating examination of what happened to one family and the Ugandan Asians more broadly' GILES FODEN'Fulford has put in the legwork ... The book is full of the sights, smells and tastes of what most remember as a lost utopia'... -
Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik 9780802137753
RRP: $23.38$20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137753Author Artyom BorovikFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
RRP: $25.33$17.73THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations by John Haywood
RRP: $25.33$17.73This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the world's earliest civilisations from the first farming settlements of Mesopotamia, via Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the civilisations of... -
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore 9781784703929
RRP: $29.23$18.58**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. From Johnson's Dictionary to... -
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World by Alex Rowell 9781398514218
RRP: $48.75$34.36'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History ______________________________________________ President... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Migrants in Britain, c800-present and Notting Hill, c1948-c1970 by Sam Slater
$9.73Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2021First exams: Summer 2022Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage is combined... -
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $25.33$17.73Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate... -
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $25.33$17.73A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... Here is the... -
Into the Black: The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster by Rowland White 9780552160223
RRP: $25.33$17.73On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built - the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of... -
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern 9780674988125
RRP: $58.40$46.92"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and... -
Flags, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated guide to international flags, banners, standards and ensigns by Alfred Znamierowski 9780754834809
RRP: $29.25$23.32Throughout the ages flags have been a means of cultural and national identity, communication, and a means of representation for groups and associations. Compiled by a leading authority this book, newly updated for this larger format edition, is a... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: $19.48$13.86The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event,... -
The Shortest History of Sex by David Baker 9781913083519
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083519Author David BakerFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Fear: An Alternative History of the World by Robert Peckham 9781788167239
RRP: $48.75$35.14It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces - perhaps the driving force - of world history: fear of... -
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins
RRP: $17.53$12.58The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins... -
A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition by E. H. Gombrich
RRP: $37.03$32.33A glorious illustrated edition of the international bestseller E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition... -
The Pocket Book of Patriotism by George Courtauld 9780954894801 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63$3.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954894801Author George CourtauldFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Halstead Books LtdPublisher Halstead Books Ltd -
The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition by J. M. Roberts
RRP: $37.03$28.49The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the... -
They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
RRP: $37.03$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968170Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The Great Reset: And the War for the World by Alex Jones
RRP: $42.90$27.40In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. From central bankers,... -
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $33.13$22.50The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived.'A superb achievement' LITERARY REVIEW'Combines scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life: in his masterly new CAESAR he shows us the... -
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
RRP: $33.13$22.37A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to... -
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
RRP: $48.75$35.14Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $25.33$17.73Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: $25.33$18.74Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and... -
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson
RRP: $19.48$13.86When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her... -
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
RRP: $25.33$16.83Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern...