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The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 Donald R Morris 9780712661058
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst... -
A War Of Nerves Ben Shephard 9780712667838
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54'I wish you could be here," the Oxford Professor of Medicine wrote to a friend in 1915, "in this orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cannot imagine what has got into the central... -
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but... -
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl 9781844132393
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.7816 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A book to read, to cherish, to debate, and one that will ultimately keep the memories of the victims alive' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped PyjamasA prominent... -
Codename Tricycle: The true story of the Second World War's most extraordinary double agent by Russell Miller
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy amongst the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany's most... -
The Mask of Command: A Study of Generalship John Keegan 9781844137381
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero... -
Culloden John Prebble 9780712668200
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about... -
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Wall and Piece by "Banksy"
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.87Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's... -
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry A P Wavell 9780712653428
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.29First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many... -
Once They Moved Like The Wind 49: Cochise, Geronimo and the Apache Wars by David Roberts
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23At the end, in the summer of 1886, they numbered thirty-four men, women, and children under the leadership of Geronimo. This small group of Chiricahua Apaches became the last band of free Indians to... -
The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses by Leon Goldensohn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall 9781844130948
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows,... -
The Case Of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered by Gitta Sereny
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin... -
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Wall and Piece by "Banksy" 9781844137879
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
Cover Versions: Singing Other People's Songs by Adam Sweeting 9781844135448
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Girls Aloud record the Pointer Sisters' 'Jump'; Atomic Kitten record Blondie's 'The Tide is High' and Kool and the Gang's 'Ladies Night'' Westlife record Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', Phil Collin's... -
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder Gitta Sereny 9780712674478
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration)... -
The People's War: Britain 1939-1945 by Angus Calder
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.35The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and... -
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The March Up by Ray L. Smith 9781844134250 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.84Taking us straight to the front lines, The March Up follows the famed 1st Marine Division on their decisive 1,184 kilometre trek to Baghdad, from first assault to the taking of the city. The 1st... -
Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday TimesThe Allied victory in 1945 - though... -
Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion by Emma Marriott
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion is a stunning memento, bringing the world and the characters of our favourite fictional country house to life. Featuring a foreword by creator Julian... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.89'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 9780141031262
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter... -
Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners Andy Merriman 9781845135850
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £8.99Margaret Rutherford was without a doubt one of Britain' s best-loved comic actresses. But behind the kindly, serene front Rutherford presented to the world lay a life of trauma and... -
The Silent House: A Novel by Fergus Hume 9781513205397
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52The Silent House (1899) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, The Silent House is a gripping novel... -
The Silent House: A Novel by Fergus Hume 9781513278391
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07The Silent House (1899) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, The Silent House is a gripping novel... -
Authenticity is a Con by Peter York 9781849547871
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.58The idea of authenticity - deliciously vague and as ubiquitous as Starbucks - has hit the spot in almost every sector of 21st-century life. But can we trust the authentic image of Nigel... -
The Rambling Sailor by Charlotte Mew 9781804471425
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33In the old back streets o’ Pimlico On the docks at Monte Video At the Ring o’ Bells on Plymouth Hoe He’m arter me now wheerever I go… Charlotte Mew, a Modernist poet who in her day was considered... -
A New Green History Of The World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilisations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt,... -
London 6: Westminster by Simon Bradley 9780300095951
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.01This essential guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter. At its core are Westminster Abbey, Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the... -
Gifts Lesley Bootiman 9781919250403
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A story of fear, betrayal and love that survives the cruellest separation, a mother from her child. A family saga set mainly in North East England with a pop diva as the central character.The... -
A Halfway House by Neil Powell 9781857546590
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.05Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, dominate Neil Powell's sixth Carcanet collection. They range from a recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to an abandoned, fog-shrouded... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 9780141441177
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is edited with an introduction and notes by Sir John Keegan in Penguin... -
How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 by Francis Herve 9781843312666
Booksplease Price: £10.31'How to Enjoy Paris in 1842' covers a wide range of subjects, from the history of the great city to contemporary commerce, conveyed by a witty, often satirical narrative reminiscent of Jonathan Swift... -
The Crusades, 1095-1204 by Professor Jonathan Phillips 9781405872935
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £35.99The crusades are an area of medieval history that continues to fascinate modern audiences. This is the first true introduction to the crusades that provides a balanced, comprehensive overview aimed... -
The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Laird, Paul 9781399017473
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.53Remember the ninteties? Of course you do. Cool Britannia, New Labour, Blur vs Oasis, Geri Halliwell's Union Flag dress, TFI Friday, wasssssuuuuuuppppppp , Opal Fruits turning into Starburst without... -
The Arrest of Scotland Yard by Donald Thomas 9781471904363
Booksplease Price: £18.98When John Posthumous Lerici, decadent poet, black magician and unacknowledged son of Lord Byron, is murdered, the family hire Inspector Swain. His investigations lead Swain through the familiar... -
Baltimore: A History in Postcards by Mary Martin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.97Called the "Charm City" and "The Best City in America" Baltimore is a city that has a great deal to offer visitors. The port of call for a dozen steamer lines and the starting point of one of the... -
A Brief History of the English Reformation Mr Derek Wilson 9781845296469
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Religion, politics and fear: how England was transformed by the Tudors.The English Reformation was a unique turning point in English history. Derek Wilson retells the story of how the Tudor monarchs...