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The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Brendan Simms
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor... -
Military Blunders Saul David 9781780334936
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76Retelling the most spectacular cock-ups in military history, this graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.08The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain... -
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other Historical Curiosities Katie Kennedy 9781789297652
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day of the year.With infectious wit and historical... -
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Anything to Declare?: The Searching Tales of an HM Customs Officer by Jon Frost 9781472109422 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €2.75In more than twenty years, Jon Frost has worked with the mad, the bad, the brave, the stupid, the spectacular and the heroic. In his time as a uniformed officer Jon seized presidential aircraft, a... -
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other Historical Curiosities Katie Smith 9781789297546
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50'History's hottest gossip' - You Magazine'A tongue-in-cheek whirlwind through 365 days of history' - Sunday PostTikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of... -
Patronising Bastards: How the Elites Betrayed Britain Quentin Letts 9781472127365
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots.'HILARIOUS'... -
The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance John Nichol 9781398509443
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST HISTORY BOOKS for 2024'Compelling... [Nichol has a] terrific eye for detail; an ability to blend tear-jerking letters,... -
Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports by James Harkin 9780571372539
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIESHop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to... -
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to... -
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation by Geoffrey Martin
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €30.61Domesday Book has been described as 'the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation.' (David Hume) But a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable price... -
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton 9781529398519
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.12'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like... -
On Courage: Stories of Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders by The Sebastopol Project
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.51On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross. *GBP2.70 of the publisher's RRP of all copies of... -
The Terror by Dan Simmons
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.17Hailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.Now a chilling 10-part TV series from RIDLEY SCOTT on BBC2 and iPlayer The most advanced scientific... -
A Load of Old Balls: The QI History of Sport James Harkin 9780571372546
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES'The trivia book of the season . . ... -
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A Load of Old Balls: The QI History of Sport by James Harkin 9780571372546 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.86SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES'The trivia book of the season . . ... -
The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People Steven Moore 9781785126505
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.22'Moore is wickedly charming - the naughty uncle you want to be sat beside at the dinner table' - Daily TelegraphToo often history focuses on the tales of kings, or those (often men) who were given... -
Perkin by Ann Wroe 9780099449966
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history. A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such,... -
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney 9780753558935
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the... -
The Terror: the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series by Dan Simmons 9781804997482
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.17Hailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.And made into an acclaimed, chilling 10-part Ridley Scott-produced BBC TV series Hailed as the most... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and... -
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy by Chris Bryant
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities... -
Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and Humanity by Jemma Wadham
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has... -
Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.46Behind the Throne is, above all, a history of family life.They ate, entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks David Gibbins 9781399603508
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through... -
Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.67Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has... -
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.06A gripping retelling of the timeless epic of romance, enchantment and adventure, Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur recasts Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in clear, compelling modern... -
Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War by Elisabeth Shipton 9780750979504
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.61The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history. Female... -
Liquid History: An Illustrated Guide to London's Greatest Pubs by John Warland
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE LONDON.A RADIO 4 BEST FOOD AND DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR.An illustrated guide to London's best pubs and their extraordinary history, presented by the founder of the... -
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of... -
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How it Works: The Student by Jason Hazeley 9780718184285 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €2.34The PERFECT GIFT for the ones who are yet to know the meaning of the words 'hard work' . . . in other words the back-to-schoolers and the university goers. __________________________________This is a... -
The Ladybird Book of Boxing Day by Jason Hazeley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70THE PERFECT GIFT for anyone who spends Christmas Day counting the minutes until the Boxing Day sales start.__________________________________'There are two important days at Christmas.There is... -
How it Works: The Student Jason Hazeley 9780718184285
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16The PERFECT GIFT for the ones who are yet to know the meaning of the words 'hard work' . . . in other words the back-to-schoolers and the university goers. __________________________________This is a... -
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The Ladybird Book of Boxing Day by Jason Hazeley 9780718184865 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.20THE PERFECT GIFT for anyone who spends Christmas Day counting the minutes until the Boxing Day sales start.__________________________________'There are two important days at Christmas.There is... -
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How it Works: The Brother by Jason Hazeley 9780718188696 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €2.34THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER for anyone that has ever had a brother, is a brother or has ever thought about murdering one.Aisling has a butterfly book.Ryan has a book about fish.Ryan has decided this... -
Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard DannattThe Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and... -
Byzantium: The Apogee by John Julius Norwich 9780140114485
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66In Byzantium: The Early Centuries John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire's second capital up to Christmas Day AD 800 - when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor... -
How it Works: The Brother Jason Hazeley 9780718188696
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER for anyone that has ever had a brother, is a brother or has ever thought about murdering one.Aisling has a butterfly book.Ryan has a book about fish.Ryan has decided this... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70"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... -
Nineteen Days in Autumn: A New History of 1066 by Erin Goeres 9780241754887
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.90FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE IT WAS MADE NEARLY 1,000 YEARS AGO, THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY RETURNS TO ENGLAND IN A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.Now, uncover the incredible true story behind the...