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Thomas Jones of Pencerrig - Artist, Traveller, Country Squire by Richard Veasey
RRP: £12.99£9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613709Author Richard VeaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £10.99£7.37Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For anyone... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £10.99£7.37Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.'Eddie looked evil in the eye and... -
Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky by Oleg Gordievsky 9781839014901
RRP: £16.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839014901Author Oleg GordievskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 454g -
Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11 by Kevin Tuerff
RRP: £10.99£7.63One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away, Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001.When... -
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: £10.99£8.02An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was... -
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: £19.99£13.33An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was... -
Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
RRP: £16.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809648Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 264g -
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: £7.99£4.45With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible... -
The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown
RRP: £10.99£8.02The inspiration for the major film of the same name directed by George Clooney, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany. 'A moving, enlightening and gripping tale' - Financial TimesCast aside by his... -
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9780394720241
£20.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1975 and Pulitzer Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394720241Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 1344Imprint Random House USA... -
Mein Kampf: My Struggle - The Original, accurate, and complete English translation by Adolf Hitler
£19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682042847Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton 9781472148667
RRP: £10.99£7.30The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw... -
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99£14.01'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny,... -
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley 9781803995410
£19.15Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III... -
Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon
RRP: £25.00£16.99***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***An FT, TELEGRAPH and THE TIMES Book of the Year'Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley,... -
Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words: The Sunday Times Number-One Bestseller by Andrew Morton
RRP: £10.99£6.18THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER. A reissue of this classic title brought up to date with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and a new introduction by Andrew Morton. This edition reflects on the extraordinary... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781784871512
RRP: £14.99£10.95'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ... -
No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon by Betty Webb
RRP: £9.99£6.86The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb is the only surviving codebreaker to have worked on both Nazi and Japanese codes at Bletchley... -
Never Will I Die: The inspiring Special Forces soldier who cheated death and learned to live again by Toby Gutteridge
RRP: £8.99£6.70There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic and conclusive. I slump silently on to my knees and topple forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads have seen enough death to assume mine is instantaneous... -
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £12.99£8.43From the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat, now a major film SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carre ... -
Starvation Heights: The chilling true story of the doctor who starved her patients to death by Gregg Olsen
RRP: £8.99£6.16The shocking true-crime story of two orphaned sisters who arrived at a health retreat as patients - but only one would ever make it out alive... An extraordinary and gripping account of the starvation doctor from the #1 New York Times bestselling author... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560808
RRP: £22.00£14.71'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and... -
Lawrence of Arabia: An in-depth glance at the life of a 20th Century legend by Ranulph Fiennes 9780241450611
RRP: £25.00£18.02The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in... -
The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz by Colin Rushton
RRP: £8.99£6.31For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Choice, this is the incredible true story of a British soldier POW. In 1942, young British soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim... -
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE 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 Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: £2.99£2.59HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
RRP: £20.00£13.26A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have... -
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors. The 'Explosive' new book from 'Britain's Top Investigative Author' by Tom Bower
RRP: £22.00£14.45'Explosive' The Sun 'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before' The Times 'Bombshell' The Mirror The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated around the world, was the beginning of a... -
Down and Out in Paris and London (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: £2.99£2.59HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that... As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer,... -
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... -
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818
RRP: £14.99£9.97Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet... -
Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer
RRP: £16.99£11.10The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man. 'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler... -
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
RRP: £14.99£9.57As the country navigates a national crisis once again, read how Britain's Prime Minister was inspired by Winston Churchill.One man can make all the difference.Now leader of the UK himself, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the... -
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable by Nigel Farndale 9780008637071
RRP: £9.99£6.89Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rugby players or aristocrats, each has marched to the... -
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
RRP: £12.99£8.73THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author... -
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.95As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power is the first of four volumes, and covers the... -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
RRP: £9.99£6.73'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES ... -
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy by Kim Philby
RRP: £10.99£8.02In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Sir Tommy MacPherson
RRP: £10.99£8.02With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's...