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Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting by John Tusa
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $7.62John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His... -
Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.66From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an... -
Soldiers: German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Sonke Neitzel 9780307948335
Booksplease Price: $34.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948335Author Sonke NeitzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
A Journey by Tony Blair
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.78In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only living Labour leader to have won a... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.53Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The... -
How to Fight a War Mike Martin 9781911723875
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $26.58An indispensable guide to understanding modern warfare, especially the decisions made by politicians and generals-both good and bad. Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs,... -
London's Docklands: An Illustrated History by Geoff Marshall 9780750987790
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.55London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transformed: starting at Canary Wharf and continuing at the... -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the wars end as Hitler s bodyguard, courier, orderly and... -
Once Upon a Time in Iraq James Bluemel 9781785944574
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68In war, there is no easy victory.When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $9.98Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the... -
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so... -
Sabine’s War: One woman. Three concentration camps. A remarkable true story of survival. by Eva Taylor
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.50An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.' Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.58A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert... -
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop 9780007192151
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.63Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1... -
The Secret History of the Mongols by Christopher P. Atwood
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed... -
Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda 9780691262291
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $26.14A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms-for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America-from French fries to... -
Dark Side of the Cut: A History of Crime on Britain's Canals by Susan Law 9781803993300
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.12There is something strangely compelling about the waterways. Isolated places on the edge of society, they have always had their own distinctive way of life and a certain shady reputation. Ever since... -
Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict by Alan Clark
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.09The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Anthony Bale
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.00'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!' The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography... -
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend 9780141982472
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $20.88Now with a new preface for the centenary of the Easter Rising, a compelling interpretation of the rebellion that launched Ireland into a new world.Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like... -
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: A Restless Hungry Feeling: 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
RRP: $51.30Booksplease Price: $31.81'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical... -
Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that... -
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker 9781789147735
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.69Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.66The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.40Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony,... -
NKJV, Journal the Word Bible, Cloth over Board, Gray, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Reflect, Journal, or Create Art Next to Your Favorite Verses by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $49.12Lined margins with ample space to journal and write notes make this Bible perfect to study and engage with Scripture.Do you underline Scripture, take notes during sermons, or express your thoughts... -
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.62SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be... -
USN Submarine vs IJN Aircraft Carrier: The Pacific 1942–44 Mark Lardas 9781472862204
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.78Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II. Before World War II the world's navies envisioned... -
The World's War by David Olusoga
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched... -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.46'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to... -
The Third Reich in History and Memory by Sir Richard J. Evans
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95In this fascinating and enlightening collection of essays, one of the most important historians of our time reflects on the ways our understanding of Nazi Germany have been transformed in the... -
A Soldier's Song by Ken Lukowiak
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59An utterly compelling and much needed reminder of what war is really all about.In 1982 Private Ken Lukowiak served with 2 Para in the Falklands. He was away from home for little more than eight... -
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly... -
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay 9781399714143
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59'A masterly evocation of the bloodiest year in British history.' Alice Roberts'Evocative, authoritative . . . rich storytelling.' Cat Jarman'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time... -
Break Point: SAS: Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story by Ollie Ollerton
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67DON'T MISS OLLIE OLLERTON'S MUST-HAVE SURVIVAL GUIDE, HOW TO SURVIVE (ALMOST) ANYTHING! PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROLLIE OLLERTON CO-HOSTS SAS: WHO DARES WINS ALONGSIDE ANT... -
Ultra by Tobias Jones
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell's Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian... -
A Belfast Child by John Chambers
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore... -
Child of the Ruins: a gripping, heart-breaking and unforgettable World War Two historical thriller Kate Furnivall 9781399713610
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew... -
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about...