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The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank by Garry O'Connor 9781803995908
RRP: $31.48$23.69The life of Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways, he warrants it more. His life symbolised Germany's hubristic and... -
Jacob's Ladder by Michael Ashcroft 9781785904875
RRP: $42.00$30.58Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and... -
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $41.98$35.03Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership.With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which... -
My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion Cloth by Barnier
RRP: $52.50$35.24In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU's chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what 'Brexit' would really mean. The result would change... -
The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $41.98$29.99In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on unparalleled access to many of the leading figures, as well... -
Ever Closer Union?: Europe in the West by Perry Anderson
RRP: $35.68$24.09The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty,... -
The Politics of Northern Ireland by Joanne McEvoy
RRP: $35.68$32.40The political scene in Northern Ireland is constantly evolving. This book reflects the most recent changes and synthesises some of the best thinking on the subject. It provides an overview of the politics of Northern Ireland, including detailed coverage... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: $52.50$36.60Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy by Tom Baldwin
RRP: $52.50$45.32Something has gone badly wrong: people loathe politicians, distrust the press and increasingly fear each other. It's easy to blame Russian trolls, Facebook news feeds, or the sinister manipulation of 'big data' -- but these are all symptoms of an... -
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson 9780008607890
RRP: $23.08$15.23How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE... -
Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by Sam Warner
RRP: $178.50$156.47Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried - and failed - to reform the system of industrial relations. Designed to tackle Britain's strike problem... -
The Accidental Spy by Sean O'Driscoll
RRP: $18.88$13.55The astonishing, gripping and long-awaited inside story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary spy.After years of living in semi-isolation, David Rupert speaks for the first time about how a trucker from New York ended up being recruited to the... -
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine by Emily Channell-Justice
RRP: $50.38$45.30Without the State explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests - a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine - through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of... -
Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK by Michael Kenny 9781805260523
RRP: $42.00$36.67The question of the United Kingdom's survival, once taken for granted, looms large in British politics. This book uncovers the roots of today's crisis, revealing MPs' and civil servants' assumptions in their understanding of the Union, and profound... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742560
RRP: $52.48$46.16The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: $33.58$25.12'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9780857505293
RRP: $42.00$30.01Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at... -
Left, Right, Wrong: Politics has lost its way – a route map for change by Sir Robin Wales 9781915603937
RRP: $25.18$17.70Public services are in crisis. NHS backlogs, police forces in disarray and a housing crisis growing ever worse. Whole areas of our national infrastructure are in a mess including energy, water and rail. In this book, Sir Robin Wales and Clive Furness... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: $20.98$14.93'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite... -
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak
RRP: $27.28$17.81'Draws startling parallels with Meghan ... Both were 34 when they met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single mothers, both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners.' S... -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: $23.08$18.77Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia.About the... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
World War III?: The Battle for Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783341917
RRP: $42.00$34.50The Ukrainian bestseller that predicted the invasion, revised and updated, now available in the English languageBook InformationISBN 9781783341917Author Yuri FelshtinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square... -
Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street by Gavin Barwell
RRP: $42.00$30.85BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $39.88$29.42'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one... -
The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China - From Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: $35.68$25.37With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings about a 'new Cold War' proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new study, the Cold War has been ongoing since the turn of the century. Racing to solidify its position in the... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $33.58$24.38________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys has had a remarkable career as a journalist, steering... -
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack
RRP: $60.88$44.69Since World War II, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight--they have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers,... -
Untitled by John Stapleton
RRP: $20.98$13.94'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular... -
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna M. Grzymala-Busse
RRP: $52.50$40.28How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern warfare or contracts between the rulers and the ruled... -
Hospitality, Volume II by Jacques Derrida 9780226831305
RRP: $75.60$63.78Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
Unchecked Power?: How Recent Constitutional Reforms Are Threatening UK Democracy by Alison L. Young 9781529233001
RRP: $31.48$25.47Is the government really acting for the people? Or does this rhetoric simply justify an executive power-grab? For some, Boris Johnson's premiership epitomised how far the UK's democracy has been captured by populism and the Prime Minister seemed more... -
Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it by Dr Julia Grace Patterson 9780008603526
RRP: $20.98$13.94The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. 'The NHS is an institution. But it's also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for... -
Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk 9781849548755
RRP: $23.08$16.32No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-life character in a world of dull grey men. Yet 'Big Cyril' was anything but the... -
All to Play For: The Advance of Rishi Sunak by Michael Ashcroft 9781785907968
RRP: $35.68$25.58The speed of Rishi Sunak's advance to 10 Downing Street is without precedent in modern British politics. In mid-2019, he was an unknown junior minister; seven months later, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer; and by October 2022, he had secured the... -
One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn 9781786636881
RRP: $35.68$24.09The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique insurgency that emerged from... -
The Twilight of Unionism: Ulster and the Future of Northern Ireland by Geoffrey Bell
RRP: $31.48$20.37The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland. Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the fragile peace has been threatened by Brexit, the rise and fall of the D U P and the failure of power-sharing... -
The End of the Party by Andrew Rawnsley
RRP: $35.68$26.63Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling The End of the Party lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office.Through riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: $52.50$43.47The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,...