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Old Soldier Sahib by Frank Richards
RRP: $20.98$14.93From the author of the celebrated Great War memoirAbout the AuthorFrank Richards was born in 1883 in Monmouthshire. Orphaned at nine years old, he was brought up by his aunt and uncle in the industrial Blaina area, and went on to work as a coal miner... -
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper
RRP: $31.48$20.58Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted... -
River of Time by Jon Swain
RRP: $23.08$16.32Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions... -
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes
RRP: $27.28$17.81Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical analysis. ... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $10.48$10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
RRP: $39.88$28.58From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt.'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us... -
Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181 by Theodore Evergates
RRP: $165.90$145.13Over the course of the twelfth century, the county of Champagne grew into one of the wealthiest and most important of French principalities, home to a large and established aristocracy, the site of international trade fairs, and a center for artistic,... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: $31.48$23.00Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.From Elizabeth's intriguing,... -
Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King by Stephen Church
RRP: $16.78$12.16'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry III, the son of King John, was catapulted onto the... -
All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein
RRP: $35.70$29.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016532Author Gerda Weissmann KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Sir Henry Royce: Establishing Rolls-Royce, from Motor Cars to Aero Engines by Peter Reese
RRP: $37.78$28.64It's hard to imagine a history of British engineering without Rolls-Royce: there would be no Silver Ghost, no Merlin for the Spitfire, no Alcock and Brown. Rolls-Royce is one of the most recognisable brands in the world.But what of the man who designed... -
Sean McLoughlin: Ireland's Forgotten Revolutionary by Charlie McGuire 9780850367058
RRP: $33.50$30.32This biography rescues from obscurity those in the Irish revolutionary movement who, like Sean McLoughlin, not only envisaged, but fought for, an Ireland very different to the impoverished capitalist neo-colony that would come into being after 1922.Book... -
The Lone Samurai by William Scott Wilson
RRP: $48.30$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309872Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
RRP: $27.28$19.09Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the... -
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $39.88$28.58The Times Book of the Year*Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022**Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars' Distinguished Book Award, 2021**Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year, 2022**Shortlisted for the... -
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell
RRP: $42.00$28.01A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried... -
Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
RRP: $31.48$20.29A moving account of survival and faith from Israel Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, with forewords by former President of Israel Shimon Peres and the bestselling author of Night, Elie Wiesel-both Nobel Peace Prize... -
Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
RRP: $23.08$16.32`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost... -
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: $41.98$29.99An 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... -
Hitler's Tyranny: A History in Ten Chapters by Ralf Georg Reuth
RRP: $42.00$29.53Hitler's tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg Reuth examines ten aspects of this catastrophe. Among other things, he asks: Was anti-Semitism more pronounced in Germany than elsewhere? Was Versailles responsible for... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: $31.48$23.00Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten.Born in the north... -
Not Even My Name by Thea Halo 9780312277017
$27.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
One Hundred and Four Horses by Mandy Retzlaff
RRP: $20.98$13.94'A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat.' As the land invasions gather... -
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman 9780007576654
RRP: $33.58$25.98An 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... -
Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir 9780099523550 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She... -
Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: $27.28$19.09Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She... -
The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler 9781471172588
RRP: $23.08$14.70A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked... -
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England by Tom Holland
RRP: $18.88$13.55The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious... -
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal by Kim Donovan 9781399615389
RRP: $20.98$14.28'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore'Drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam ChristerA true Victorian murder mystery...Great Yarmouth, September 1900: A young woman is found dead on the beach, a... -
William II (Penguin Monarchs): The Red King by John Gillingham
RRP: $14.68$10.77'To provide splendid settings for their displays of majesty, kings had great halls built, and none more so than Rufus' William II, or William Rufus, son and successor to William the Conqueror, is most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out... -
Memoirs Of A Revolutionary by Victor Serge
RRP: $29.38$20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174517Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Cunningham: The Greatest Admiral Since Nelson by John Winton 9781800553996
RRP: $41.98$36.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800553996Author John WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 885g -
Starvation Heights: The chilling true story of the doctor who starved her patients to death by Gregg Olsen
RRP: $18.88$13.02The 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... -
George VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Dutiful King by Philip Ziegler
RRP: $10.48$7.98The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the designation of 'George the Dutiful'. Throughout his life... -
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
RRP: $20.98$14.93When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how... -
Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox 9780753823866
RRP: $23.08$15.54The story of Henry VIII's queens - as seen through the eyes of Jane Rochford, sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and cousin to Katherine Howard.'Outstanding ... fascinating and moving' Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of THE DUCHESSJane Rochford was... -
Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey 9780007247721
RRP: $31.48$20.37Bestselling 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... -
An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum [1941-43] by Etty Hillesum 9780953478057
RRP: $33.60$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478057Author Etty HillesumFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780670919796
RRP: $42.00$32.74One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive... -
Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir
RRP: $23.08$16.32Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot...