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The units of the Waffen-SS were some of the most successful and influental combat formations produced by any country in this century. Their abilities and accomplishments, in both defense and offense, remain legendary. Finally, the commanders of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800166066Author Rita SouthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

"It Worked for Me" is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that have shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell's legendary career in public service. At its heart are Powell's "13 Rules", notes he accumulated on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980865301Author Ian UsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Wider Vision PublishingPublisher Wider Vision PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

History has been unkind to Sunny Marlborough, largely because it was written by his first wife, the 'dollar princess' Consuelo Vanderbilt. It is true that he was not an easy man and their marriage was indeed an unhappy one. However the unhappiness of...

Hazel had been scared of horses all her life, and an earlier attempt to overcome her fear had ended in failure. She was still overcoming fear in other areas, travelling around the world with her job, reporting on areas recovering from war, famine,...

Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. His exploits inspired three biographies, movies have been based on his life, and a square in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416517016Author Lou EppolitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pocket StarPublisher Pocket StarWeight(grams) 159g

'This final, short book, is the unfolding development of a life and a mind. It reminds us that she was never primarily a political activist, but a writer and, to herself, a scholar ...Since she died last year, a victim of her enormous size, I have come...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170670Author Dave AblittFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115090Author Robyn ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm *...

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book-the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070125Author Colin TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint AcairPublisher Acair

In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience-and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Hear from Jasilyn Charger, one of the first...

'Deliciously gossipy and amusingly trenchant' Daily Mail, BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times'Fabulous . . . dazzling' Tatler'Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Country LifeThis short volume has...

John Calvin, the French Protestant theologian, had planned a life of quiet, scholarly study. But while travelling to Strasbourg in 1536, a local war forced him to make a detour through Geneva. Here he stayed, apart from a short period of exile, until the...

William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. Lord...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788230803Author Stephen A. BlakeyFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953380107Author Helen KrasnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Garth PublicationsPublisher Garth PublicationsWeight(grams) 183g

Aged fifteen, armed with a credit card stolen from his father, Jonny Oates ran away from home and boarded a plane to Addis Ababa. His plan? To save the Ethiopian people from the devastating 1985 famine. Discovering that demand for the assistance of...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even...

Charles Kennedy was found dead on 1 June 2015. He was only 55 years of age. His death was due to complications resulting from alcohol abuse over many years. Much has been written about his addiction to alcohol, with justification. The condition dominated...

Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world...

The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). Her life exemplified a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524761431Author Mari AndrewFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

Peter White was the second blind son born to sighted parents just after the war. His education took place before the days of integrated schooling for all (for which he is extremely grateful) and he describes with great honesty and humour the peculiar...

Virginia Woolf, to whom university admittance had been forbidden, watched the universities open their doors. Though she was happy that her sisters could study in university libraries, she cautioned women against joining the procession of educated men and...

For over 60 years, spanning from his childhood to the Cold War to the current day, former Israeli paratrooper and Six Day War veteran Uri Geller has been a major enigma. Is he merely one of the most convincing stage magicians in history, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035841035Author Sara Ann KeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The Tibetans refer to Moso country as 'The Country of Daughters' because of their unique matrilineal society. In Moso culture, daughters are favoured children. There is no word for father, marriage is considered a backward practice, and property is...

As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still...

As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still...

2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards A friend of the late Christopher Hitchens offers insight about the promise of faith and the dangers of pride in this one-of-a-kind look into the last days of the world's most famous atheist--now in paper...

For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist...

Stories to inspire. Stories to connect. Extraordinary moments in which women's lives changed forever. Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's women and the...

Legendary Sheriff Irvine Smith QC is one of the most formidable criminal lawyers of his generation. Called to the Bar in 1953, he was involved as Counsel in some of Scotland's biggest cases, including the 'Glasgow Bank Raid', known at the time as 'the...

'"Right!" My Dad slammed his fist against the dashboard. "If you want to die let's f***ing die together!""Dad...don't," I said, referring to the profanity rather than the death-threat.But my father was lost in his own private Thelma and Louise moment...

You've heard the controversy, now read the book:Sticky Fingers is Joe Hagan's pulsing account of 50 years of rock'n'roll excess from Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine and one of the best-connected men of the twentieth century. Featuring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928926Author Robin OdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 425g

Charles Waterton (1782-1865) n a true English eccentric, ironically self-styled 'the most commonplace of men'. He talked to insects, fought with snakes, rode an alligator and lived like a monk. He was made famous in his own lifetime by publication of his...