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Nelson's Lost Jewel: The Extraordinary Story of the Lost Diamond Chelengk by Martyn Downer
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.67Admiral Lord Nelson's diamond Chelengk is one of the most famous and iconic jewels in British history. Presented to Nelson by the Sultan Selim III of Turkey after the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the... -
Panzer Leader: Memoirs of an Armoured Car Commander, 1944 1945 by Henning, Otto 9781399014588
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97The armoured reconnaissance units were the spearheads of Hitler's Panzer divisions, moving stealthily ahead of the tanks to locate the enemy. Otto Henning's armoured car unit of the elite... -
Treason of Sparta: The brand new book from the master of historical fiction! by Christian Cameron 9781409198222
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!Book 7 in The Long War series from the master of historical fiction, Christian CameronWhen the dust settled and the blood dried after the Battle of Plataea, Greeks might... -
Three Shattered Souls: The unmissable conclusion to the adventure fantasy sensation Mai Corland 9781804188101
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.20THE UNMISSABLE CONCLUSION TO THE EPIC KOREAN-INSPIRED FANTASY SENSATION, THE BROKEN BLADES TRILOGYSome betrayals cut deeper than blades.The Blades were never supposed to survive this long. But after... -
Star Wars: Choices of One by Timothy Zahn 9781804951903
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.11The fate of the Rebellion rests on Luke Skywalker's next move.But have the rebels entered a safe harbor or a death trap?Eight months after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebellion is in desperate need of a... -
The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle 9781399607032
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64My father cleared his throat. He began to say, "They took her," but he never got past the first word, and had to start again. He said finally, "The Dreamies took her. She went with the Dreamies."... -
Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee by Phillip Papas 9780814767658
Booksplease Price: $82.21Honorable Mention for the 2015 Book Award from the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Honorable Mention for the 2015 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award In November 1774, a pamphlet to the... -
Summon Only the Brave!: Commanders, Soldiers, and Chaplains at Gettysburg by John W. Brinsfield 9780881465709
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $60.80Of the many books written about the Battle of Gettysburg, none has included selections from the collected memoirs of the 238 chaplains, North and South, who were present at the battle-until now... -
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3) by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.53Special unjacketed hardback edition of the final part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. This edition features the complete story with a unique cover design... -
Brochs and the Empire: The impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie broch excavations by Euan W. Mackie 9781784914400
Booksplease Price: $73.59The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place during the 1970's after the author had been asked to organise the work by a local archaeological society. At that... -
The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days by Noah Smithwick 9780292720459
Booksplease Price: $41.67"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of... -
Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless by MacGillivray
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless is a book in nine parts constructed to play the Butcher - the Duke of Cumberland - in a Gaelic interpretation of the ghost gamble. Given the command on the... -
Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill by Jim Fergus
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.78In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace... -
Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris by Hal Vaughan 9781574887747
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.71Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war... -
Human Predicaments: And What to Do About Them by John Kekes
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of... -
Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris by Hal Vaughan
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.38Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war... -
The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace by John C. Duval 9780803250536
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.67William A. Wallace (1816-1899) went from his native Virginia to Texas in 1836, shortly after the battle of San Jacinto, "for the purpose . . . of taking pay out of the Mexicans for the murder of his... -
The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans by Donald M. Goldstein 9781574882223
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $42.10The Pearl Harbor Papers comprises the original Japanese documents related to the attack of December 7, 1941. Donald M. Goldstein, the dean of Pearl Harbor historians, and his frequent collaborator,... -
Shadows of Antietam by Robert J. Kalasky 9781606350881
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $66.50The Battle of Antietam, fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualties on both sides. While the battle was tactically... -
Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality by Carlo Salzani 9783039118601
RRP: $146.35Booksplease Price: $129.95How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of... -
The Battle of Britain, 1945-1965: The Air Ministry and the Few by Garry Campion 9781349574155
Booksplease Price: $90.25Seventy-five years after the Battle of Britain, the Few's role in preventing invasion continues to enjoy a revered place in popular memory. The Air Ministry were central to the Battle's valorisation... -
The Cavalry that Broke Napoleon: The King's Dragoon Guards at Waterloo by Richard Goldsbrough 9780750992107
Booksplease Price: $33.23On 18 June 1815, Napoleon and Wellington took to the fields of Waterloo for one final, decisive battle - a battle that would put an end to over two decades of warfare and determine the fate of Europe... -
Return to Zero: Lorien Legacies Reborn by Pittacus Lore
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52THE ELECTRIFYING END TO A STORY TEN YEARS IN THE MAKINGIn this dramatic conclusion, the Legacies, Loric, Earth Garde and even the Mogadorians come together for a final, deadly showdown. After the... -
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle by Nicholas Jellicoe
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $26.25More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood... -
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper 9780316185400
Booksplease Price: $37.19At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53... -
RAF Fighters vs Ju 87 Stuka: In the West 1940–41 Andy Saunders 9781472862570
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32An illustrated account of the clashes between RAF Fighter Command's Hurricane and Spitfire and the Luftwaffe's Ju 87 Stuka in the skies over France, the Channel and southern England. The story of... -
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal 9780806122199
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07"If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn... -
A Scot's Grey at Waterloo: The Remarkable Story of Sergeant William Clarke by Gareth Glover 9781473894013
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.50William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803/. Clarke had risen to the rank of sergeant by the time the regiment was ordered to... -
Human Predicaments: And What to Do about Them John Kekes 9780226638911
Booksplease Price: $52.03In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of... -
The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society by Royal B. Hassrick 9780806121406
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of... -
Star Wars - The Imperial Handbook - A Commander's Guide by Daniel Wallace 9781783293681
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.44Set in-world, Star Wars: The Imperial Handbook shares the knowledge of a newly promoted Commander in the Imperial Military, providing a comprehensive overview of the Imperial war machine. After the... -
Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory by Linda Barnickel 9780807149928
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $62.91At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest small engagements of the war. This important fight... -
Yaiba: Samurai Legend, Vol. 3: Volume 3 Gosho Aoyama 9781974761036
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27The first full-length adventure from Gosho Aoyama, the legendary creator of Case Closed!Yaiba Kurogane is an energetic young swordsman who's grown up in the jungle, training to be a samurai with his... -
Images of War: Panzertruppe, Panzer I, 1934–1941: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives David Mitchelhill-Green 9781805002444
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35During the 1920s, Germany defied the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding its military and pioneering new forms of mechanised warfare. This detailed study traces the development of the German tank... -
1940: Myth and Reality by Clive Ponting 9781566630368
Booksplease Price: $40.66It was the year of the glorious Battle of Britain, of the heroic evacuation of Dunkirk. It was the time when the mighty British empire declared its intention to fight the Nazis-alone if necessary-to... -
As Wolves Upon a Sheep Fold: The Civil War Letters of Ohio Surgeon William S. Newton by William S Newton
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $44.13William S. Newton (1823-1882) served the Union primarily as an assistant surgeon with the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but also spent a few months as acting surgeon with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry... -
Panzer Tactics: Tank Operations in the East, 1941-42 by Oskar Munzel 9781612009896
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $55.77This book discusses a number of raids undertaken by XXXXVIII Panzer Corps near the Black Sea in 1941/2 to explore the tactics used and why they were successful, based upon the detailed combat reports... -
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008376147
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.07The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings. The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest... -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Upper Germanic Limes: Grenzen des Römischen Reiches: Der Obergermanische Limes / Frontières de l´Empire Romain: Le limes de Germanie supérieure by David J. Breeze
Booksplease Price: $29.23Towards the end of Caesar's Gallic War, Rome had reached the Rhine. Since the campaigns under Emperor Augustus (15 B.C.), larger troop contingents were stationed along the river, with focal points... -
Scott's Forgotten Surgeon: Dr. Reginald Koettlitz, Polar Explorer Aubrey A. Jones 9781849950381
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.45'...In this year celebrating the centenary of the conquering of the South Pole - it is more than fitting to have one of the unregarded figures of Antarctic history brought into the limelight of...