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Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock
RRP: £18.99£14.01The book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. Bullock divides the narrative into three main... -
One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On Wes Streeting 9781399710107
RRP: £20.00£13.55The Sunday Times bestseller ***'[A] compelling story of overcoming adversity... Unexpectedly fascinating... amazingly inspiriting...' --- The Observer'...the vitality of the book lies in its directness and conversational candour... An engaging memoir'... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey by Betsy Whyte 9781841580708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy's story to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in vivid detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey Betsy Whyte 9781841580708
RRP: £7.99£6.84The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy's story to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in vivid detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to... -
Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester
RRP: £10.99£7.46The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival... -
Marlborough: His Life and Times: Bk. 1 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780226106335
RRP: £45.00£44.21John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose... -
John Henry Newman: A Biography by Ian Ker
RRP: £13.49£13.03This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman's letters and papers. Newman's character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts:... -
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon
RRP: £20.00£13.74Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was... -
Marlborough: His Life and Times: Bk. 2 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780226106359
RRP: £45.00£44.81John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose... -
Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson
RRP: £12.00£7.96A thrilling new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI. 'The best life of Henry VI now in print' DAN JONES. 'Vivid, absorbing and richly detailed' HELEN CASTOR. 'A well-crafted moving account of a tragic reign' MICHAEL JONES. ... -
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £16.99£12.28From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate... -
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier Diana Preston 9780552772105
RRP: £10.99£7.99William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier was the... -
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty Elizabeth Norton 9781445605784
RRP: £10.99£7.46The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: £10.99£7.99Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE*'A hero of mine, a moral as well as... -
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die by Tom Gallagher
RRP: £14.99£13.84Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: £18.00£15.80Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: £12.99£9.34Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
Cnut: England's Viking King 1016-35 by M.K. Lawson 9780752460697
RRP: £14.99£11.72King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However, the beginnings of his kingship were less auspicious. He was a cruel and vicious warrior, who invaded England with his father Swegen Forkbeard,... -
Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History by John Man 9780062202673
RRP: £16.99£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202673Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Mod Lib The Baburnama by W. M. Thackston
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761379Author W.M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay 9780691178332
RRP: £20.00£16.13Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements... -
Franco by Paul Preston
RRP: £25.00£16.83'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. Francisco Franco was the Caudillo of... -
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor 9780674060494
RRP: £22.95£18.78One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure,... -
Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey 9780007247721
RRP: £14.99£9.96Bestselling royal historian David Starkey's captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy's most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense, Henry VIII was Britain's most absolute monarch - but he was... -
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696
RRP: £22.00£16.44Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking.German... -
Man Down by Marine Mark Ormond 9780552159494 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.38Mark Ormrod was a 'gravel belly', a 'bootneck' marine who loved being in the heart of the action when things kicked off, and he relished the prospect of a tour of duty in Afghanistan. And then the unthinkable happened.In one heartstopping moment Mark's... -
Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West by D'Arcy Jenish 9780803224520
RRP: £19.95£13.24Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America,... -
Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy by Michael Knox Beran
RRP: £14.99£9.61An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, as a state of mind.From politics... -
Blue Ambition: The Unauthorised Biography of Kemi Badenoch Michael Ashcroft 9781785908620
RRP: £20.00£14.70During the Conservative Party leadership contest in the summer of 2022, Kemi Badenoch made an immediate impression on the public as a politician with robust views and a strong personality. Although only a junior minister at the time, she was marked out... -
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert 9781642503074
RRP: £16.95£10.91What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?"Wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking. An insightful, modern look at the lives of women as they were." -Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR.#1 New Release in Etiquette Guides & AdviceAn inside look at... -
This Boy by Alan Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' Philip Collins, The TimesSchool on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all. ________Alan Johnson's childhoodwas not so much... -
Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler
RRP: £12.99£9.34Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa - still then the land of the pioneer... -
Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet Karen Armstrong 9781842126080
RRP: £9.99£7.00A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.'Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying' SUNDAY TIMES'One of our best living... -
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £14.99£11.30On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: £12.99£9.34An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, and a precursor to the famous nineteenth-century slave narratives, Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy... -
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams by Frederik Cryns 9781789148640
RRP: £16.00£11.80In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan, and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan’s most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This... -
A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 9781911547099
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547099Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 130g -
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Professor Peter Sarris 9781529365382
RRP: £30.00£20.10A SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR'A majestic, sparkling account of one of the most important rulers in history . . . this is modern history writing at its finest' Peter Frankopan'Superb and gripping. Epic... -
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In Vera Brittain 9780349005928
RRP: £12.99£8.83NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still...