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Frank Henderson's Easter Rising: Recollections of a Dublin Volunteer by Frank Henderson 9781859181430
RRP: £9.00£7.41In this text, Frank Henderson, Commandant of the Second Battalion of Dublin's Irish Volunteers, reveals the influence of his parents and the Christian Brothers in moulding his militancy and pride in Irish culture.Book InformationISBN 9781859181430Author... -
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign by Arron Banks 9781785902055
RRP: £9.99£7.06FULLY UPDATED Arron Banks enjoyed a life of happy anonymity flogging car insurance in Bristol until he dipped his toes into the sharkinfested waters of politics and decided to plunge right in. Charging into battle for Brexit, he tore up the political... -
Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box: 50 Things You Need to Know About British Elections by Philip Cowley 9781849547550
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the Practical Politics Book of the Year at The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015. Have you ever wondered...- what emotions really influence where your cross goes on the ballot paper? - whether people are claiming to vote when they... -
The Imperial Tea Party: Family, politics and betrayal – the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance by Frances Welch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria's favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the beginning of an uneasy Anglo-Russian entente that would last until the Russian... -
Order, Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking by Ben Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.38Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out... -
The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy by Howard Davies 9780745638850
RRP: £16.99£15.22This remarkable book tells the story of how the British economy has been managed over the last 30 years. The story is told by those who should know more about it than anyone else - the former Chancellors of the Exchequer in both Labour and Conservative... -
Failed Fuhrers: A History of the British Extreme Right by Graham Macklin
RRP: £28.99£25.09This book provides a comprehensive history of the ideas and ideologues associated with the racial fascist tradition in Britain. It charts the evolution of the British extreme right from its post-war genesis after 1918 to its present-day incarnations, and... -
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933 by Thomas Childers 9780807841471
RRP: £42.95£35.52The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency -- how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to... -
A Social History of Western Political Thought by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £25.00£16.43In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political... -
Let's Stay Together: Why Yes to Europe by Denis MacShane
RRP: £12.99£12.55From the bestselling author of BREXIT comes a personal and passionate plea for voting 'Remain' on 23rd June. Denis MacShane, former Minister for Europe, is alarmed that the referendum debate so far has been too polite, too restrained. Now is the time for... -
Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
RRP: £16.00£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307951137Author George FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Paid to Predict: Duplicity, Deceit and Dishonesty among ‘Allies’ by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
RRP: £25.00£18.15In 1993 Ewen Southby-Tailyour joined the British Foreign Office for duties with the European Community Monitoring Mission. He was also tasked, informally, by MI6 to report on a few characters. Monitoring the cease-fire violations along the Confrontation... -
Young Marx by Richard Bean
RRP: £11.99£11.66Young Marx is a comedy set in 1850's London, where Karl Marx, is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke and restless, the play portrays the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary as a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann
RRP: £20.95£17.52"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis...Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed more than ever."-Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly refreshes our... -
Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker 9780745313870
RRP: £24.99£16.38Rudolf Rocker's classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain. It remains unsurpassed as a general introduction to... -
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy 9780312293130
RRP: £59.99£40.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm)... -
The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
RRP: £17.00£16.15In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit by Christopher Hill
RRP: £15.99£14.41Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be offset by the United Kingdom's entry into Europe in 1975, with the result that national foreign policy came to rest on... -
Films of Fact - British Cinema and Thatcherism by Lester D. Friedman
RRP: £22.00£18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764717Author Lester FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 664gDimensions(mm) 238mm *... -
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit by James Hawes
RRP: £15.95£9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198146Author James HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 23mm -
The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown by Florence Faucher-King 9780804762359
RRP: £21.99£19.18The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Gales argue that New Labour, in contrast... -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.77In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about... -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: £10.99£7.77Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the... -
The Resistible Rise Of Benito Mussolini by Tom Behan
RRP: £8.00£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876908Author Tom BehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 162g -
Renewing the Republic by Michael D. Higgins 9781907593215
RRP: £13.99£8.77Featuring new essays along with Higgins' best speeches, Renewing the Republic explores six themes: citizenship and the republic; culture, identity and reputation; human rights; language; globalization, emigration and exile; and the public space. These... -
Class War: A Decade of Disorder by Ian Bone
£14.64For ten years, Tory Britain has burned. From Brixton '81 to Oxford, Cardiff, and Tyneside '91 the unforgivable have risen and seized back their streets. With a petrol bomb in one hand a biro in the other, Class War was there. And Class War is... -
Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works by Giovanni Gentile
RRP: £43.99£38.44Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism, supplying its justifi cation and rationale as a developmental form of dictatorship for status-deprived nations languishing on the margins of the Great Powers. Gentile's "actualism"... -
The essential UN by United Nations: Department of Public Information 9789211013726
RRP: £19.95£16.40Everything you always wanted to know about the United Nations - in one book! This primer to the United Nations is designed for all global citizens. It covers the history of the UN, what it does and how it does it. As the world's only truly global... -
Race and Racism in Britain, Third Edition by John Solomos
£45.43The new edition of Race and Racism in Britain builds on the strengths of previous editions of this widely-used text in providing a detailed and critical analysis of race relations and forms of racism in British society today. The book begins by mapping... -
Dismembered: How the Conservative Attack on the State Harms Us All by Polly Toynbee
RRP: £9.99£6.70What is the state? And what's it ever done for you?More than you think.The state houses us, educates us, employs us, protects us on the street and in the wider world. It is the country we created together, and a part of our national identity. However, in... -
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration by David Goodhart
RRP: £24.00£16.96SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE PADDY POWER POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2014 In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people... -
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.40A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family... -
Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy by Christopher Meyer
£12.73A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which... -
Micheline's Three Conditions: How We Fought Gender Inequality at Galway's University and Won by Micheline Sheehy Skeffington 9781739474805
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739474805Author Micheline Sheehy SkeffingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint M3C PressPublisher M3C PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 295mm *... -
Lords of Parliament: Manners, Rituals and Politics by Emma Crewe
RRP: £19.99£17.44This is the only anthropological book about the British Parliament. It marks the first time a researcher has had almost untrammelled access, and every significant aspect of the Upper Chamber has been inquired into. The result is a unique portrait,... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: £85.00£69.28A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or... -
Strategy in the Contemporary World by John Baylis
£37.68Bringing together international experts to provide a comprehensive introduction to strategic studies, this is the only overview to critically engage with both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. Throughout the chapters readers are... -
Future War and the Defence of Europe by John R. Allen
£31.22Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will... -
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith 9781787381421
RRP: £30.00£26.43Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from... -
Nigel Farage in His Own Words by Andrew Liddle
RRP: £6.99£5.13Whether you love or loathe him, no one can deny the reinvigorating effect that Nigel Farage has had upon political debate in Britain in recent years. Indeed, it is to him and his energetic leadership that UKIP owes much of its success. Positioning...