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The Siege of Delhi by Amarpal Singh
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.59On 10 May 1857, the most serious threat to British supremacy in India appeared at Meerut, a large military station near Delhi. After months of increasing tension, sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry... -
America's Forgotten Wars: From Lord Dunmore to the Philippines by Ian Hernon
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31Americans know about the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the world wars, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan but the many inbetween conflicts have been erased from public memory. And, as there was... -
The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America’s Midnight War Against Russia by Barnes Carr 9781398104501
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.03It remains one of the most audacious spy plots in history - a bold and extremely dangerous operation to invade Russia, defeat the Red Army, and mount a coup in Moscow against Soviet dictator Vladimir... -
The Ships of Scapa Flow by Campbell McCutcheon
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was... -
The Kings & Queens of England: The Biography by David Loades
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40This is the history of the men and women who occupied the highest position in English, and later British, society. From Richard III's infamous life and death, to Henry VIII's wives, Charles I's... -
The Ships That Came to the Pool of London: From the Roman Galley to HMS Belfast by Nick Robins
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90The Pool of London has long been a busy place. It has been the focus of seaborne trade with the city since the Roman galleys first arrived with exotic cargoes. After the Industrial Revolution the... -
RAF Air-to-Air Refuelling: A Pictorial History by Keith Wilson
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.89Once man had mastered the ability to fly, there came the desire to fly faster, higher and further with increased payloads. Some of the earliest experiments with air-to-air refuelling occurred in the... -
Polar Voyages by Gordon Gray
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.78On a blustery, West Highland summer's day in the early 1950s, a black-hulled mail steamer ploughed its way northwards from Mallaig up through the Sound of Sleat between the mainland of Scotland and... -
Air Atlantique Charles Woodley 9781445693163
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84In 1976 a Jersey-based air taxi operator purchased two elderly Dakota aircraft for cargo charters as Air Atlantique. Thus began the saga of an airline that would eventually operate one of the largest... -
Flying up the Edgware Road: The Birth of North-West London's Aviation Industry by Mark Amies
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Flying up the Edgware Road tells the story of how an area of what is now north-west London became a hub of the British aircraft industry in the very early years of the twentieth century. From the... -
Hobbs of Henley: A History by Simon Wenham
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40Hobbs of Henley is not only one of the best-known businesses in Henley-on-Thames, it also boasts one of the most exclusive and recognisable fleets of boats plying the river today. Simon Wenham's... -
Churches of the Marches by John Kinross
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90In this stunning, full-colour book, John Kinross explores the fascinating history behind the smaller, lesser-known churches of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire and the Welsh borders. Areas... -
Swissair by Charles Woodley
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90For over seventy years the name Swissair stood for all things Swiss on the airways. The 'flying arrow' emblem of Switzerland's national airline represented a company with deep financial reserves,... -
The Ships That Came to Manchester: From the Mersey and Weaver Sailing Flat to the Mighty Container Ship by Nick Robins 9781445651941
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.47The merchants of Manchester were concerned about the high tariffs charged at Liverpool Docks and the excessive rates for transhipment of goods to Manchester. They decided that the best thing for... -
England's Queens From Boudica to Elizabeth of York by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2,000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are historical figures, while others, such as Cordelia and... -
C-130 Hercules in the RAF by Clive Bennett
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90From its introduction in the mid-1960s, when the first aircraft were delivered, through the various humanitarian missions, the Falkland Islands conflict and operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, right... -
Royal Flying: A Pictorial History by Keith Wilson
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90When the King's Flight was officially formed in 1936, passenger flying was very much in its infancy. Creating the Royal Flight was a most innovative action by King Edward VIII, although members of... -
Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics: A Sideways Look at Twentieth-Century London Rob Baker 9781445651194
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66"I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be." An Ideal Husband, OSCAR WILDE ... -
Bristol and Gloucestershire Aerospace Industry by Steph Gillett
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66The British & Colonial Aeroplane Company was established in 1910 at Filton on a site that is now an Airbus design and engineering centre. BAE Systems also has facilities at Filton. Bristol aircraft... -
RAF Coastal Command: A Pictorial History by Keith Wilson
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66RAF Coastal Command was founded in 1936 when the Royal Air Force restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands. During the preceding inter-war years, maritime aviation had been seriously... -
Her Home, The Antarctic: The Royal Research Ship John Biscoe by Trevor Boult
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.42With a foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh, who travelled to the Antarctic on the maiden voyage of the RRS John Biscoe, this is the story of the ship's final voyage in the Antarctic to the British... -
Great Innovators of North East England by Colin Alexander 9781398109346
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84North-east England, defined here as the historic counties of Northumberland and Durham, has a long, proud tradition of producing great innovators, some very well known and others almost forgotten. ... -
Boathouses of Britain Michael Dawson 9781398121812
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Boathouses have a story to tell, of invasion and response, of naval expedience, of taste and fashion, competition and industry. A new boathouse was essential to the successful establishment of... -
Piper Cherokee: A Family History by Ron Smith
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.13This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from... -
South Coast Passenger Vessels by John Megoran
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40Any who think that the end of the long coastal excursions by paddle steamers of yesteryear brought a halt to a trip on the briny may be surprised to learn that there are still more than eighty... -
Dunkirk Little Ships by Nigel Sharp
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90In May 1940, following the rapid advance of German troops through Holland, Belgium and France, the British Expeditionary Force and French army retreated to Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo was instigated in... -
Scotland's Lost Industries by Michael Meighan 9781445609171
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.56Until the 1960's The Clyde was synonymous with shipbuilding with many yards dotted on both sides of the river all the way from Glasgow to Greenock. Today they have all but gone, waterside apartments,... -
Stena Line by Ian Collard
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90The major company in the short-sea passenger and freight business in 2020 is the Swedish Stena Line, who operate services to Europe, Scandinavia and Ireland from United Kingdom ports. The company... -
Convair by Martyn Chorlton
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Becoming the fourth largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States when Consolidated merged with Vultee in 1943, Convair quickly built a reputation for designing and building some of the largest... -
West Highland Steamers by West Highland Steamer Club
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40The Red Book, the twice-yearly newsletter, now the Journal of the West Highland Steamer Club, regularly contained a collection of ship photographs of both everyday and special events in the lives of... -
Between the Tides: Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast by Roy Stokes
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90There have been millions of shipwrecks, but just a few have been remembered. A ship can disappear suddenly without a trace. Or a loss may involve a fascinating web of intrigue and drama. Exploration,... -
Sealink British Ferries by Ian Collard
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Sealink's antecedents go back to the packet boats of the days before steam. The invention of the steam engine greatly assisted the development of the railways and led to the growth of the packet... -
British Bandstands by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40Bandstands have been a feature of the British way of life for well over a century - but, after the Second World War, an increasing number fell into disuse and were neglected. Sadly, many were... -
British Recovery Vehicles by Bill Reid
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84A recovery vehicle, or breakdown wagon, is the type of truck you hope you will never need. Unfortunately, they are an integral part of everyday life and are to be seen in various forms attending... -
A Mind at Play: The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age by Jimmy Soni
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31Named a best book of the year by Bloomberg and Nature. 'Soni and Goodman have done their research...A Mind at Play reveals the remarkable human behind some of the most important theoretical and... -
Britain's Jet Age: From the Javelin to the VC10 by Guy Ellis
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40The Jet Age in Britain began with the Gloster E.28/39 and the Meteor fighter during the Second World War. At the end of the 1950s and the start of the 1960s, the next generation of British jet... -
Vintage Signs of America by Debra Jane Seltzer
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Debra Jane Seltzer's beautiful collection of images features some of the most stunning signs that remain on public display in the United States. The focus is on neon signs from the 1940s and 1950s... -
British Airways: 100 Years of Aviation Posters by Paul Jarvis
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31This collection of 200 posters from the archives of British Airways provides a stunning visual history of air travel from the earliest days to the present. Airline posters often evoked the... -
Born to be a Baggie: A West Bromwich Albion Supporter's 50-Year Odyssey by Dean Walton 9781445658575
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66'What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It's not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive... -
Oscar's Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee 9781445662589
Booksplease Price: €27.33'In all his life [Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill me.' This was...