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Chernobyl by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people... -
English Myths by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55The mythology and folklore of England is as old as the land itself, rich in symbolism and full of tales of quests and heroic daring-do, ghosts and witches, romantic heroines and noble outlaws. Who... -
Afghanistan by Michael Kerrigan 9781838863173
Booksplease Price: £26.43"The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient. We'll be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination." -... -
The Cold War by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... -
Alchemy Illustrated Michael Kerrigan 9781838865917
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Long shrouded in secrecy, alchemy is now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry.Before the advent of modern science, alchemy was the ancient art of transformation, a way of combining matter... -
Amazing Temples of the World by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25Temples have been places of worship, a focus for spirituality and a place for communities to gather since the earliest days of human civilisation. The first temples date back to ancient Mesopotamia... -
Amazing Churches Michael Kerrigan 9781838866907
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Every great church makes a statement, and it is seldom simply theological. An offering of thanks to a beloved minister, a monument to a powerful ruler, a colonialist vaunt - a church is never really... -
Classic Symbols: A Guide by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Symbols are all around us - some mysterious, some timeless, some arcane and some prosaic. But what are their origins? What does the infinity symbol really signify? Do you understand yin and yang? And... -
Abandoned Palaces Michael Kerrigan 9781838865221
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences... -
History of the World Michael Kerrigan 9781838864507
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Beginning in the sixth millennium BCE, in the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia and along the Nile River, human civilization expanded to develop writing systems, farming methods, social organization and... -
Japanese Woodblocks: Masterworks Michael Kerrigan 9781835627990
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50This gorgeous new book discusses the ever-present inspiration of Fuji in Japanese culture, its continued presence in 19th-century Ukiyo-e woodblock art and its influence on Western art. It reproduces... -
Gustav Klimt: Masterworks Michael Kerrigan 9781835628010
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50Gustav Klimt is renowned as a quintessential artist of the art nouveau movement, but he was one of a number of Viennese artists who strove to break free of the constraints of the academic art... -
William Blake Masterpieces of Art by Michael Kerrigan 9781804177075
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic works. Presented here in this magnificent new... -
Paul Nash Masterpieces of Art Michael Kerrigan 9781835622810
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Paul Nash, the British landscape and Surrealist painter, lived through both the First and Second World Wars. His depictions of these human catastrophes, with their damaged landscapes and broken... -
Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art Michael Kerrigan 9781783612116
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and the most precious and expensive of such manuscripts... -
Abandoned Places of World War II by Michael Kerrigan 9781838863722
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838863722Author Michael KerriganFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Amber BooksPublisher Amber... -
The History of Russia: From the Rus' people to President Putin by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45From monarchy to the world's first socialist state, from Communism to Capitalism, from mass poverty to Europe's new super rich, Russia has seen immense revolutions in just the past century, including... -
Cold War Plans That Never Happened: 1945-91 by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.87From a NATO nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to a Warsaw Pact land assault on Western Europe; from building an electric fence between North and South Vietnam to building a US base on the moon; it... -
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Scotland Undiscovered: Landmarks, Landscapes & Hidden Treasures by Michael Kerrigan 9781783614226 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Scotland's landscape is wildly diverse, ranging from towering mountains reflected in mirror-like lochs to ancient castles and bustling city streets. This wonderful book provides historic, geographic... -
Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75At its peak in January 1945, 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, reading 4000 messages a day, decrypting German and Japanese communications and helping the Allies to victory. But while we know... -
Ancient Peoples in their Own Words: Ancient Writing from Tomb Hieroglyphs to Roman Graffiti by Michael Kerrigan 9781782747079
Booksplease Price: £23.98Ranging from the Egyptians to the late Roman Empire, Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words celebrates the excitement and importance of historical primary sources in an accessible way that will appeal to... -
The Romans and Their World: A Short Introduction by Brian Campbell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Drawing on an array of ancient sources, and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the great civilization, Brian... -
Recovery and The Return of Ethan Hart: Two Novellas by Stephen Benatar 9781504008020
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Two completely separate novellas about putting right the mess two men have made out of their lives. About the AuthorStephen Benatar was born in 1937 in Baker Street, London-and in the block of... -
The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War by Avi Raz 9780300198508
Booksplease Price: £45.49The untold story of Israel's diplomatic maneuvering in the wake of the Six Day War, which frustrated a possible peace settlement Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique... -
Illustrated History of Catholicism by Mary Frances Budzik 9781844769858
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.03Catholicism is the oldest and the largest of the Christian denomination and has become one of the world's most practised faiths, and this book provides an insight into the origins and history at the... -
Lost Interiors: Beauty in Desolation by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £9.70A broken piano, a dilapidated staircase, a chair half standing on two bent legs surrounded by layers of history peeling from the wallpaper of an abandoned house. The chilling air of an abandoned... -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £13.49Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give... -
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his... -
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch 9780192806871
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £40.23The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides... -
Like People In History by Felice Picano 9780349108384
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.34Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954... -
A Handbook of Scotland's Coasts Fi Martynoga 9781912235865
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This handbook is an inspirational resource to help you discover the thousands of miles of Scotland's spectacular coastline - from its stunning geology and diverse marine and bird life to its coastal... -
Gulag Voices: An Anthology by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the... -
An Englishman in Madrid Eduardo Mendoza 9781529429374
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64"A funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene" Independent"Highly enjoyable read" SpectatorAnthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited... -
Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Mireille Calle-Gruber
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to... -
Terrors of the Table: The curious history of nutrition by Walter Gratzer 9780192806611
Booksplease Price: £20.08Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the unwary and the foolish when it... -
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by J. C. McKeown 9780195393750
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.74The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. But what we know about them is sometimes bizarre, and hardly... -
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace by Patricia Malcolmson 9781846685460
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of... -
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by... -
The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do by Colin Tudge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In The Secret Life of Birds, lifelong bird enthusiast Colin Tudge explores the extraordinary variety, secret history and hidden importance of birds around the world. Birds are beautiful, intriguing...