The Sale Table

These are the latest additions to the Sale Table. Most of these books are held in very limited quantities and we regret that we may not be able to fulfil all orders. Please order these sale books separately from all other books at History Bookshop. Thank you.

Rifles 60% off

Urban, Mark Normal price £20.00 — Discount price £8.00 — You save £12.00  <convert> 

As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of a six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.

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Peninsula Years 60% off

Richards, D.S. Normal price £19.95 — Discount price £7.98 — You save £11.97  <convert> 

My Heart Is My Own 60% off

Guy, John Normal price £20.00 — Discount price £8.00 — You save £12.00  <convert> 

A dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at 16, at 18 Mary ascended the throne that was her birthright and began ruling one of the most fractious courts in Europe, riven by religious conflict and personal lust for power. She rode out at the head of an army in both victory and defeat; saw her second husband assassinated, and married his murderer. She was a woman so magnetic, so brilliant in conversation that her cousin, Elizabeth I, refused to meet her in the course of their lifetimes for fear of being overshadowed or outwitted.

1603 70% off

Lee, Christopher Normal price £20.00 — Discount price £6.00 — You save £14.00  <convert> 

A great step-change in British history took place in 1603: the year that Elizabeth I died and the monarchy passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts, from the house of Henry VIII to James VI of Scotland who ruled as James I of England. It was also the year the Black Death returned, killing some 30,000 out of a population of only 4 million. This is the story of both the history-makers - Elizabeth, James, Robert Cecil, Shakespeare, Galileo - and of the common people; of turmoil in the Church, state-sponsored piracy and the establishment of new trade routes.

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Persia in the Great Game 70% off

Wynn, Antony Normal price £25.00 — Discount price £7.50 — You save £17.50  <convert> 

Antony Wynn tells the story of Sir Percy Sykes and his unique role in preserving British interests in Persia between the 1890s and World War I. Percy Sykes was sent to Persia by Army Intelligence in the 1890s, first as an explorer and spy, then to open consulates along Persia's eastern borders. His job was to deter Russian expansion towards India. Unpaid, he rode through thousands of miles of the harshest desert, marsh and mountain, often with his indomitable sister. When consul at Meshed during a very turbulent time, he bugged the Russian consulate and, armed only with diplomacy, single-handedly faced down a Russian attempt to annex north-east Persia.

Pilgrimage 60% off

Sumption, Jonathan Normal price £14.99 — Discount price £6.00 — You save £8.99  <convert> 

Sumption explores the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of Christiantiy to the end of the 15th century. Describing such major destinations as Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostella and Canterbury, he examines both major figures - popes, kings, queens, scholars, villains - and the common folk of their day. With sympathy he evokes their achievements and failures, and addresses the question of what motivated such extraordinary quests.miraculous; the medicine of the sick; origins and ideals; the penitential pilgrimage; the great age of pilgrimage; the legacy of the Crusades; the growth of a cult; the journey; the sanctuary; Rome; the later Middle Ages I - "light-minded and inquisitive persons"; the later Middle Ages II - "base-born men"; medieval Christianity.

Safe Among the Germans 70% off

gay, Ruth Normal price £22.50 — Discount price £6.75 — You save £15.75  <convert> 

This volume tells the little-known story of why a quarter of a million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labour, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation soon found that their homeland had become a new killing ground, where some 1500 Jews were murdered in pogroms between 1945 and 1947. Facing death at home, and with Palestine and the rest of the world largely closed to them, they looked for a place to be safe and found it in the shelter of the Allied Occupation Forces in Germany.

By 1950 a little community of 20,000 Jews remained in Germany: 8000 native German Jews and 12,000 from Eastern Europe. Ruth Gay examines their contrasting lives in the two post-war Germanies. After the fall of Communism, the Jewish community was suddenly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of former Soviet Jews. Now there are some 100,000 Jews in Germany. The old, somewhat nostalgic life of the first post-war decades is being swept aside by radical forces from the "Lubavitcher" at one end to reform and feminism at the other. What started in 1945 as a "remnant" community has become a dynamic new centre of Jewish life.

Early Stuarts, 1603-60 60% off

Davies, Godfrey Normal price £45.00 — Discount price £18.00 — You save £27.00  <convert> 

Churchill 65% off

Lukacs, John Normal price £17.95 — Discount price £6.28 — You save £11.67  <convert> 

A view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman. In previous works John Lukacs told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. In this text he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman.

Each chapter of the book provides a portrait of Churchill. Lukacs treats Churchill's vital relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt and Eisenhower, as well as his complex, farsighted political vision concerning the coming of World War II and the Cold War. Lukacs also assesses Churchill's abilities as a historian looking backward into the origins of the conflicts of which he was so much a part. In addition, the author examines the often contradictory ways Churchill has been perceived by critics and admirers alike. The last chapter is an evocation of the three days Lukacs spent in London attending Churchill's funeral in 1965.

Eyewitness in the Crimea 60% off

Dallas, George Frederick; Mawson, Michael Hargreave (ed.) Normal price £22.50 — Discount price £9.00 — You save £13.50  <convert> 

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