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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021 A Guardian Book of the Year 'The highest talent at work' Sebastian Barry 'Beautiful ... A masterpiece' Attitude Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class...

**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Foreword by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, and its sequel, Masters of the Air. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008599218Author Simon ShusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint William CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year' MATTHEW D'ANCONA, EVENING STANDARD 'The first serious and consistently...

A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture-"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status" (Nicholas Shakespeare, Times, UK) "Persuasively...

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history"Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the...

Don't miss LION HEARTS, the final heart-stopping novel in the Essex Dogs trilogy from bestselling historian Dan Jones - available to pre-order now.'Superb historical fiction as fresh, vivid and vital as this morning's headlines.' LEE CHILD'Dan Jones'...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and...

The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher ClarkFINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012Winner of the Los...

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. ...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on SundayIn...

'If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here ... Terrifying, disturbing and ghastly' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland'Explosive' The Times'[A] Crisp page-turner of a book teeming...

The perfect picture book celebrating all children with a message of kindness and friendship. I might not like gritty sand or scratchy labels, busy places or messy tables, but with ... a quiet walk ... a gentle...

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The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics...

David Ogilvy is well known and respected as the most successful adman of all time. His bestselling book, Ogilvy on Advertising gives valuable advice to young hopefuls and veterans of the industry wanting to improve their success rate.David Ogilvy is well...

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A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its...

The home of trusted Latin dictionaries for everyday language learning. This Latin Dictionary and Grammar offers the student of Latin the essential two-in-one reference: a comprehensive Latin to English and English to Latin dictionary and a...

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'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding expose of Putin and his criminal pals ... [A] long-awaited, must read book' SUNDAY TIMES 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the...

LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739421229Author Lara PawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

Discover all the blood-curdling stories with: The Horrible History of the World. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the foul but fascinating story of humans, from brain-nibbling ...

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of...

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived.'A superb achievement' LITERARY REVIEW'Combines scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life: in his masterly new CAESAR he shows us the...

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam...

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon-the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X-whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's military: from the two men who launched the unit.A vast and...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A stunning blockbuster' Robert Fisk'A brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A compelling detective story of the highest order' Sunday Times'Tom Holland has...

'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. It should have put me off for life. Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few...

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires .....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND THE WINGATE PRIZE'A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.' Sunday Times, History Book of the Year'Profoundly moving.' Edmund de Waal'A most rare book: extraordinarily powerful - magisterial,...

In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship sank to the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary 'Red Devils'...

'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to...