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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.57THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and impeccably researched' Peter FrankopanIstanbul has... -
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award by Alev Scott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES... -
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' Sunday Telegraph'This is... -
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches,... -
Drone Theory by Gregoire Chamayou
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare.In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a... -
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman 9781784878801
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often... -
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure Michael Asher 9780140258554
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in... -
A Test Of Time: Volume One-The Bible-From Myth to History by David Rohl
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74By employing the same basic methodologies used to establish the currently accepted chronology, it has been possible for a group of young archaeologists, including David Rohl, to create a New... -
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British Jeremy Paxman 9780670919598
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr.The... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the... -
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD'[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original,... -
Mistress of My Fate: By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE by Hallie Rubenhold
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Perfect fiction for fans of BBC TV's hit series BRIDGERTON and HARLOTS'A remarkable picture of a fascinating age' Daily Express'A full-blooded historical' Independent_____________________My tale is... -
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary... -
Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Glyn Prysor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across the globe in vast battleships and claustrophobic corvettes, makeshift... -
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social,... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Bettany Hughes 9781474610346
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRYThe Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases for the... -
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew... -
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1) by Toby Clements
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49_____________________'An enthralling adventure story, honest and powerful. The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy, with ferocity, with hunger to engage the reader.' Hilary MantelFEBRUARY... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks David Gibbins 9781399603508
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.64AN 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... -
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport 9780099520092
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded... -
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Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1) by Toby Clements 9780099585879 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40_____________________'An enthralling adventure story, honest and powerful. The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy, with ferocity, with hunger to engage the reader.' Hilary MantelFEBRUARY... -
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble... -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of... -
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and... -
Pawn in Frankincense: The Lymond Chronicles Book Four by Dorothy Dunnett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. 'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night,... -
Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six by Dorothy Dunnett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . THE PERFECT GIFT for fans of A Game of Thrones. 'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the... -
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin Michel Krielaars 9781805330042
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When Stalin came to power, making music became a dangerous endeavour. Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for... -
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To Lie with Lions: The House of Niccolo 6 by Dorothy Dunnett 9780140112689 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.34The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe.To Lie With Lions is... -
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written'... -
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the... -
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the... -
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny 9780140261011
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this... -
Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton 9780141018317
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and... -
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.99ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and... -
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781804991893
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written..... -
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Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman 9780670919598 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.32From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr.The... -
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The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson 9780241290460 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £3.12The New York Times bestseller'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtWhat if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the...