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![The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780192825841 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9703015/10719716/9780192825841__90332.1781358653.jpg?c=1 "The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780192825841 [USED COPY]")
The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780192825841 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.63This anthology of 250 war poems was first published in 1988 to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918. They range from Homer and the Bible to John Betjeman, Randell Jarrell,... -
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.09The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable... -
The Light of Common Day by Diana Cooper
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the 'Coterie', an exclusive high society set. Her marriage to Duff Cooper, a rising... -
![Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6002129/6079141/9780719562372__83920.1731556148.jpg?c=1 "Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]")
Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.63Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great... -
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by... -
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating ... -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
Booksplease Price: £14.84Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he... -
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who... -
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85The first English language biographer to have returned to the original Danish sources, Wullshlager creates a fascinating picture of Andersen as a deeply troubled man, as far from Danny Kaye's... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent... -
The Greeks: A Global History by Professor Prof Roderick Beaton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and... -
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £3.66In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions... -
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which... -
![To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild 9780330447447 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665343/10682063/9780330447447__71114.1781288232.jpg?c=1 "To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild 9780330447447 [USED COPY]")
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild 9780330447447 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.41In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions... -
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements... -
Anzac Sonata: New and Selected Poems by Jon Stallworthy 9780393304220
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.11This volume, Stallworthy's seventh collection, typifies the way in which his best work mingles a graphically personal element with a strong sense of responsibility. "The fullest, most representative... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A 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... -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his... -
The Erotomaniac by Ian Gibson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Henry Spencer Ashbee seemed a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a vast collection of erotica and... -
Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary,... -
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £26.22Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett,... -
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141985077
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This... -
Rimbaud by Graham Robb 9780330488037
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.69Graham Robb's brilliant biography moves Rimbaud on from his perpetual adolescence where our imaginations have held him to show the extent of his transformations. From phenomenally precocious... -
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Times Biography of the YearWinner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019Longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize... -
War Poet by Jon Stallworthy 9781847772442
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the... -
![Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley 9780099575443 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9697522/10714238/9780099575443__67612.1781349918.jpg?c=1 "Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley 9780099575443 [USED COPY]")
Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley 9780099575443 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £4.00THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZEEdward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power and... -
Monet: The Restless Vision Jackie Wullschläger 9780141980621
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.80*Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Franco-British Society Literary Award**Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize*A magnificent biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a... -
![Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service 9780330517287 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9680958/10697678/9780330517287__21064.1781302584.jpg?c=1 "Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service 9780330517287 [USED COPY]")
Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service 9780330517287 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.46In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia by Charlotte Hobson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson's year travelling around Russia takes us to the heart of a country that we are continually interested in, yet can struggle... -
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of... -
The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780393303858
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.39Of all the work bequeathed by to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its breadth of sympathy and its understanding of human suffering and... -
![Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571207251 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9858259/10874771/9780571207251__27175.1783490332.jpg?c=1 "Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571207251 [USED COPY]")
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571207251 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.99In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown by Anna Keay 9780008282059
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ... -
The Music Room by William Fiennes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory' Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes' childhood was one of imagination and... -
Russia and Its Islamic World: From the Mongol Conquest to The Syrian Military Intervention by Robert Service
Booksplease Price: £22.37Russia has long played an influential part in its world of Islam, and not all the dimensions are as widely understood as they ought to be. In Russia and Its Islamic World, Robert Service examines... -
Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service 9780330517287
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they...