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The Middle Class: A History by Lawrence James
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59'A wonderfully enjoyable history of the changing fortunes of the middle orders over the past 500 years. A magisterial survey of the entire British class system, filled with richly detailed... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing... -
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James 9780349110127
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred,... -
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa Lawrence James 9781780226187
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa... -
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The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James 9780349106731 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.14'The best study of Lawrence of Arabia' Sunday TimesControversial and provocative, revised and updated, this edition of Lawrence James' acclaimed biography penetrates and overturns the mythology which... -
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict Lawrence James 9781474610209
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the... -
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James 9780316851473 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.78Great Britain's geopolitical role in the global scheme of things has undergone many radical changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain's... -
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Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.36THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing... -
![Warrior Race: A History of the British at War by Lawrence James 9780316857628 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9767206/10783806/9780316857628__86925.1781861342.jpg?c=1 "Warrior Race: A History of the British at War by Lawrence James 9780316857628 [USED COPY]")
Warrior Race: A History of the British at War by Lawrence James 9780316857628 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.44Modern Britain is a nation shaped by wars. The boundaries of its separate parts are the outcome of conquest and resistance. Warrior heroes - real, imaginary and a mixture of both - are deeply... -
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James 9780349110127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred,... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of... -
Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Keith Somerville
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined,... -
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Liberty or Death is Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India, acclaimed as the definitive book on this subject. At midnight on 14 August... -
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empire by Bruce Gilley 9781684515202
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to... -
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a... -
The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson 9780141986333
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.22WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC... -
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Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton 9781784160791 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.28"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a... -
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War by Allan Mallinson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great... -
Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lycett 9781474602983
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.92Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became... -
Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire by Trevor Royle
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the... -
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain Stephen Bungay 9781781314951
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.80Stephen Bungay' s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its... -
Napoleon by Philip Dwyer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.24'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times 'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles by Ian F. W. Beckett 9780198794127
Booksplease Price: $27.74The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the... -
Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill by David Stafford
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48An engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy"Important . . . Its power lies in a vivid re-creation not only of... -
India: A History by John Keay
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history... -
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The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay 9781845134815 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $4.61Stephen Bungay' s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its... -
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.05**Pre-order the latest volume in the World War One trilogy, The Eastern Front, today** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and... -
Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month Allan Mallinson 9780857503800
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles by Ian F. W. Beckett
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today. The battle of Isandlwana on 22... -
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Darkest Hour: Official Tie-In for the Oscar-Winning Film Starring Gary Oldman by Anthony McCarten 9780241340936 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.64THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE STARRING GARY OLDMAN, WHO TOOK HOME BEST ACTOR AT THE OSCARS FOR HIS SUBLIME TURN AS WINSTON CHURCHILL... -
Darkest Hour: Official Tie-In for the Oscar-Winning Film Starring Gary Oldman Anthony McCarten 9780241340936
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE STARRING GARY OLDMAN, WHO TOOK HOME BEST ACTOR AT THE OSCARS FOR HIS SUBLIME TURN AS WINSTON CHURCHILL... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and... -
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Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd 9780241970102 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.39THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard DannattThe Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and... -
Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard DannattThe Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and... -
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 by Rory Muir 9780300205480
Booksplease Price: $31.38A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic... -
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During... -
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England by Caroline Grigson 9780198714712
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo -- a tale replete with the extravagant, the...