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JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE ________________________________ Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable... Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers,...

'Highly readable' Ben Macintyre 'Pacy, original and frequently chilling' Henry Hemming June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes...

Rosie, a young Englishwoman from a comfortable middle-class background, left her London home in 1939 to work as an au pair in Avignon in the South of France. Even the outbreak of war later that year did little to disturb her happy life there, until 1940...

"Robert the Bruce and All That" is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland's warrior king. Gallop alongside King Robert the Bruce as he takes up the quest to free the Scots from terrifying King Edward and his bumbling...

Describes the emotions of Queen Elizabeth I. For although her great passion was for power, she was capable of more human feelings such as her love for the worthless Earl of Leicester. Also brought to life are the monarch's vanities, her favourites and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565660779Author Jean-Claude SuaresFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Thomasson-Grant PublishersPublisher Thomasson-Grant PublishersWeight(grams) 940g

Published on the 20th anniversary of his death, and containing substantial new material never before seen in print, Lennon Remembers presents a portrait of a complex musician at the height of his career.Book InformationISBN 9781859846001Author Colin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904685128Author R. M. A. SmartFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Stanborough Press LtdPublisher Stanborough Press Ltd

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama himself told veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe, 'You'll get more access than anyone else', and "Renegade" is his unique story of how a political newcomer with no money and an outsider's...

Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his...

Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history - a special 40th anniversary edition. Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieved what lesser men failed even to contemplate. The famous sone of a famous father, he was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. Brunel helped drive the first tunnel under...

A biography of Edward VII and his Queen Consort, Alexandra, two people who were so different yet so interdependent that the part they played on the public stage for half a century was at once unique and unrepeatable. It is also the story of high-living,...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, and married with four children. She was twenty-two and had...

Hannibal is often considered the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train...

The facts about Pontius Pilate are very few. We don't know when he was born or when he died. We know nothing of his career before he became Govenor of Judea, and nothing of what happened to him after he was recalled by Tiberius. Some say he came from...

This is a Sunday Times best-seller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women used their home to influence British society. From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite...

"This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and...

The Land, the People pays tribute to the American family farm and the people whose daily lives are tied to the soil. Rachel Peden once wrote of this book, "I wanted the land to be the main character, and to write about the family farm, its change,...

A stunning new biography that will put previous and current Napoleonic biographies in the shade. 'Puts to rest some of the myths surrounding Napoleon.' Ben Weider, President, International Napoleonic Soc. Leading expert and international writer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399143229Author Sara Tuvel BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 353Imprint Putnam AdultPublisher Putnam AdultWeight(grams) 544g

Mary I was the first queen to rule England (1553-58) in her own right. She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England. The daughter of King Henry VIII and the Spanish princess...

Captain Andrew Shewan (1849-1927) was the last-surviving tea-clipper captain, and in his 70s set down his experiences in "The Great Days of Sail", his only book, published in the year he died. Brought up in Blackwall, his knowledge of the...

Bill Brandt, the greatest of British photographers, who visually defined the English identity in the mid-twentieth century, was an enigma. Indeed, despite his assertions to the contrary, he was not in fact English at all. His life, like much of his work,...

'This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered...Not by accident, not by mistake, but called by his name and killed...

When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before. This time they were going to...

An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's `philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology. A...

Undoubtedly one of the great orators of the twentieth century, Sir Winston Churchill is an iconic figure and Britain's most famous statesman. This new edition of a classic work records his remarkable military and political career and his extraordinary...

George S. Patton embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956329707Author Jane ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Munday BooksPublisher Munday Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907018773Author Elsie BalmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Tabb HousePublisher Tabb House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863276316Author Anne ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wolfhound PressPublisher Wolfhound PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752421841Author Andrew HignellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

This revealing account of Jane's life and tragic death, offers a fresh insight into the woman herself.Book InformationISBN 9780750937696Author Alison PlowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press...

Even after twenty years, A. Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindberg remains "the definitive account" of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary figures. Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than...

David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son of a...

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and...

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906978129Author Barry WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062328052Author Duncan BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 318g