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Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Michael Broman 9781636244419
RRP: £29.95£20.92Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and... -
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that... -
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate... -
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama 9780241561249
RRP: £35.00£25.89THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST THIS CHRISTMAS!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its... -
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich
RRP: £12.99£9.34The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: £16.99£12.68The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.27The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
Out of Town: A Life Relived on Television by Jack Hargreaves 9780946159468
RRP: £8.95£8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159468Author Jack HargreavesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 130mm * 11mm -
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty Tracy Borman 9781444782929
RRP: £14.99£10.05'Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining...this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times'Tracy Borman's eye for detail is impressive;... -
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary by Brian Davies 9780190456542
RRP: £57.00£42.63One of Aquinas's best known works after the Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles is a theological synthesis that explains and defends the existence and nature of God without invoking the authority of the Bible. A detailed expository account of and... -
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £18.99£14.03'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals.' - Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and on... -
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
RRP: £10.99£7.46The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a... -
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds 9780199986118
RRP: £24.99£18.46D-Day--June 6, 1944--is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the... -
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
RRP: £12.99£9.34**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know' Hilary MantelIt was a time... -
On This Day in Politics: Britain's Political History in 365 Days by Iain Dale
RRP: £20.00£14.07Who became Britain's first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721?When was Karl Marx born?Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses?When did Big Ben first bong?When did the first British woman cast her vote? (Clue: It wasn't 1918.)Find the... -
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War by Erik Larson 9780008681753
RRP: £25.00£16.43The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On... -
Philip's Orkney and Shetland: Leisure and Tourist Map: Leisure and Tourist Map by Philip's Maps
RRP: £6.99£6.14Whether it's the outstanding natural beauty, ancient sites or an activity-packed break calling you, the Philip's leisure and tourist map of Orkney and Shetland is all you need. Places of interest are clearly marked on the easy-to-read mapping - ideal... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99£12.47Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy... -
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
RRP: £7.99£5.98'An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.' Walter Bagehot's The English... -
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber 9780804710138
RRP: £38.00£33.67France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. ... -
A Book of Life by Peter Kingsley 9781999638450
£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999638450Author Peter KingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Catafalque PressPublisher Catafalque PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Military Aircraft: World's Greatest Fighters, Bombers and Transport Aircraft from World War I to the Present by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £24.99£17.79Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of... -
The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII by Will Iredale
RRP: £14.99£10.39THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving' -- Saul David, Telegraph'Fascinating and utterly gripping' -- James Holland'Absorbing' -- Daily Mail Book of the... -
King Alfred's English, a History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We Do by Laurie J White 9780980187717
RRP: £15.60£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980187717Author Laurie J WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Shorter Word PressPublisher Shorter Word PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 254mm... -
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667694
RRP: £18.99£12.48Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to... -
Judy: A Dog in a Million: From Runaway Puppy to the World's Most Heroic Dog by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.61The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million, cherished and adored by the... -
Dreams of Peace: A gripping wartime family saga by Rowena Summers 9781804365755
RRP: £9.99£6.63The war is drawing to a close, but life for the Caldwell sisters is far from peaceful...Still waiting for her fiance, James, to return from fighting in North Africa, Imogen focuses her attention on driving for the Auxiliary Territorial Service General... -
Portillo's Hidden History of Britain by Michael Portillo
RRP: £9.99£7.05Discover the hidden history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned places and buildings.Portillo's Secret History of Britain presents a compelling and wonderfully evocative history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or... -
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
RRP: £12.99£8.80In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium.During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders,... -
Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age by M. S. Mirto 9780806141879
£19.12Examines ancient Greek conceptions of death and the afterlife In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus on maintaining youthfulness and well-being, while fearing death's intrusion in our daily... -
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
RRP: £8.99£6.32An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an... -
Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066 by Andrew Gimson
RRP: £14.99£10.95NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDA book for all lovers of history: the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs - from 1066 and William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth... -
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: £14.99£11.95WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building... -
The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City by Jackie White 9780807858592
RRP: £28.95£28.12This book provides the authoritative history of salsa.Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive chronicle of the music - and the industry that grew up around it,... -
The Divine Blueprint: Temples, power places, and the global plan to shape the human soul. by Freddy Silva 9780985282448
£19.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985282448Author Freddy SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Freddy SilvaPublisher Freddy SilvaWeight(grams) 472g -
The Girl in the Fog: The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month by Donato Carrisi
RRP: £9.99£3.05Sunday Times Crime Book Club PickMail on Sunday Thriller of the Week'A coldly brilliant expose of the depths of human nature' SUNDAY TIMES'Compelling, beautifully constructed and atmospheric' DAILY MAIL Sixty-two days after the disappearance . . .A man... -
Countdown To Zero Day by Kim Zetter
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770436193Author Kim ZetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £35.00£25.29The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell. The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great... -
The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood by Brian Box Brown 9781250261403
RRP: £22.99£17.72Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, he unravels how marketing that targeted children in the 1980s has shaped adults in the present. Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by... -
China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
RRP: £9.99£6.96A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words. People. Leader. Reading. Writing. Revolution. Grassroots. Through these and other common vernacular words and phrases, Yu Hua - widely regarded as one of China's greatest living...