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Derelict Britain: Beauty in Decay by Simon Sugden
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.37In this collection of remarkable images, photographer Simon Sugden has captured the beauty in buildings in their second life of decay and dereliction. These buildings have become abandoned, no longer... -
Glory and Dishonour: Victoria Cross Heroes Whose Lives Ended in Tragedy or Disgrace Brian Izzard 9781398133501
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.13There have been many books on Victoria Cross heroes but this is the first one to explore the lives of those for whom the greatest accolade did not bring contentment, happiness or lasting fame. Men... -
Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage by Angus Winchester 9781445651484
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Dry stone walls create much of the character of upland landscapes across Britain. How do we go about dating dry stone walls? Why were they built and by whom? This book seeks answers to these... -
My Friends, The Enemy: Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War by Nick van der Bijl 9781445694184
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14'On the beach the Lieutenant asked if he could say a prayer before being shot. "Don't be so bloody silly," I replied, "get into the boat."' My Friends, The Enemy recounts the Falklands War from... -
1960s Childhood: Moon Landings, The Kinks and the 1966 World Cup by Derek Tait
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62The 1960s was a period of change - the beginning of the world as we know it. It was the time of Beatlemania, the Apollo moon landings and Doctor Who, which had every small child hiding behind the... -
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... -
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: €13.90North-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... -
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: €12.14The 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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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England's Queens: The Biography by Elizabeth Norton 9781445609041 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €3.40Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England, either as queen regnant or queen consort and the voices of all of them survive through their own writings and those of their contemporaries. The... -
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,... -
RAF Training Command: A Pictorial History by Keith Wilson
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90When the expansion of the RAF began in 1934, Air Commodore Tedder observed that the established order of school training not only failed to produce operational competence, but left so much to be done... -
Jigsaw Puzzles: Tactical Intelligence in the Falklands Campaign by Giles Orpen-Smellie
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was determined that Argentina's seizure of British sovereign territory would not stand. A Task... -
Oscar's Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38'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... -
The Thread of Identity by Ronald Ram 9781848682641
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €22.15This is a book to set you thinking about how we live our lives. Starting in the fourteenth century, it tells the story of a 'middling' family over the course of 600 years, set in its work-a-day local... -
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...