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The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse by Robert A. Clark 9781496200570
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the great Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers... -
The American Civil War by Cole Kingseed 9780313316388
Booksplease Price: £51.71The Civil War is the central event in U.S. history. More than any other event, the war defined the United States as a nation and as a people. What the United States is today, how it views the role of... -
Sam Houston's Wife: A Biography of Margaret Lea Houston by William Seale 9780806124360
Booksplease Price: £23.00Although Sam Houston has been the subject 6f several biographies and- many historical articles, little attention has been paid to his third wife, whose enormous influence on the Liberator of Texas... -
Paris in the Middle Ages by Simone Roux
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan... -
Man on Two Ponies by Don Worcester 9781590773987
Booksplease Price: £12.22He was the son of Pawnee Killer, the last in a line of mystic warriors of the Great American Plains Indian tribes. When his father fled to Canada with Sitting Bull, after the battle of Little Big... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.10Created in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth born in 1926, the division was attached to I SS Panzer Corps in March 1944 and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a... -
The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain by Joseph J. Krulder
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event... -
Goering: The Iron Man by Professor Richard Overy
Booksplease Price: £27.79Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the... -
Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History by Timothy M. Matovina 9781477302170
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56San Antonio native, military veteran, merchant, and mayor pro tem Jose Antonio Menchaca (1800-1879) was one of only a few Tejano leaders to leave behind an extensive manuscript of recollections... -
A Promise of Peridot: The Sacred Stones Book 2 by Kate Golden 9781529434064
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.22From Kate Golden, author of the instant bestseller and viral phenomenon A Dawn of Onyx, comes the next seductive, sweeping, action-packed installment in her addictive Sacred Stones trilogy.A prophecy... -
Apogee: Volume 2 by Travis S. Taylor 9781668073186
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.16The war for reality has just reached its peak. Two years after the Battle for the ISS, the world is still reeling. Nuclear blackouts fractured global power grids-and Marcus Dorman stepped in to... -
Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier by Terry Laughlin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Even though swimming is the closest thing to a perfect exercise you can name, too few people experience its full benefits. That's because most find themselves fighting to stay afloat, struggling for... -
Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher 9781529150070
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered... -
The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008465827
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which... -
1,000 Days in America: An Illustrated History of the Moments That Defined a Nation National Geographic 9781426224393
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.73This lavish narrative, curated by National Geographic, collects 1,000 seminal moments in U.S. history alongside more than 300 stunning illustrations, timelines, and sidebars. Commentary by... -
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Making History by Brian Friel 9780571154777 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The... -
The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography by Paul Stephenson
Booksplease Price: £107.59The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon... -
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.70The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in... -
The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45 by Philip Cracknell
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.46The Battle for Hong Kong lasted eighteen days. It was always going to be a losing battle. Winston Churchill knew that Hong Kong could not be defended or relieved if attacked. It had become an... -
The Heresy of Dr Dee Phil Rickman (Author) 9780857897701
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE JOHN DEE PAPERSThe acclaimed second instalment of The John Dee Papers. Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts - brooding superstition leaves John Dee isolated in the... -
Making History by Brian Friel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.39The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The... -
The Thun-Hohenstein Album: Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper Armory by Chassica Kirchhoff
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.62The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it. In late medieval and early modern Europe,... -
How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did by Stephen Clarke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the... -
The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food Justin Rhodes 9781546012597
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own food but didn't think you had the space, the time, or the knowledge? Justin Rhodes thought the same thing-until after years battling systemic... -
The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008465865
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which... -
The Battle for Brittany: The Taking of Brest, 1944 - Then and Now 9781036153229
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62In a swift campaign the Third US Army conquered the Brittany peninsula in August 1944. The German forces in Brittany had been herded into Lorient, St Nazaire, and Brest, where they could only await... -
Tenth Army Commander: The Writings of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., 1944–45 by Christopher L. Kolakowski 9781636241999
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.91Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a major figure of the Pacific War, both for his command in Alaska and in his key role heading Tenth Army during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Buckner was... -
Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground by Glenn W. LaFantasie 9780253350718
Booksplease Price: £22.63The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame... -
Unbreakable: My life with Paul Hunter. A story of extraordinary love, loss and courage. by Lindsey Hunter 9780007260911
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Unbreakable tells Lindsey Hunter's moving and heartbreaking story. Lindsey is the widow of snooker star Paul Hunter, who died tragically aged only 27 in October 2006 after a battle with cancer,... -
General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army by John Childs 9781474255141
Booksplease Price: £40.79General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland... -
The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III by John Donne 9780520372924
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume III, traces Donne's preaching from April 1620 to February 1622, a... -
A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka by Ajith Boyagoda
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war. Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking... -
The GI's Rabbi: World War II Letters of David Max Eichhorn by Greg Palmer
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08We saw 39 boxcars loaded with Jewish dead in the Dachau railway yard, 39 carloads of little, shriveled mummies that had literally been starved to death; we saw the gas chambers and crematoria, still... -
Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July - September 1862 by M. Chris Bryan
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.76The diminutive Union XII Corps found significant success on the field at Antietam. Its soldiers swept through the East Woods and the Miller Cornfield, permanently clearing both of Confederates,... -
William Marshal by David Crouch
Booksplease Price: £49.16David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient... -
On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943 Prit Buttar 9781472835000
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to... -
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.5025 October 2015 was the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that... -
Napoleon’s Line Infantry – From the Battle of Jena to the Invasion of Iberia: Uniforms and Equipment Paul L Dawson 9781526783998
Booksplease Price: £31.29This book examines the uniforms and equipment of the backbone of the French army, the Line Infantry, at the height of its glory. The crushing defeat of the Prussian army at the twin battles of Jena... -
Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt by Colleen Manassa 9780199982226
Booksplease Price: £112.65Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city. Shortly after... -
Fighting Tigers in Italy: First Hand Accounts of Tanks in Combat by Jeffrey Plowman 9781399057868
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Of all the tanks in the German arsenal the Tiger was perhaps the one most feared, certainly by the Western Allies from the time they first encountered it in North Africa to the end of the war in...