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William H Taft by Richard G. Frederick 9781621006176
RRP: £57.99£38.53William Howard Taft (15 September 1857 - 8 March 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both offices. Riding a wave of popular support of President... -
In the Context of His Times: Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet and Jew by Norman Simms 9781618112361
RRP: £91.99£88.13From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and for the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and... -
Lucy Webb Hayes: A First Lady by Example by Russell L. Mahan 9781617618437
RRP: £52.99£35.32Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes lived their lives as though they knew Rutherford would become President of the United States one day. They not only led exemplary lives from beginning to end, but saved an incredible amount of information for the... -
Lou Henry Hoover: A Prototype for First Ladies by Dale C. Mayer 9781617618413
RRP: £61.99£41.11Recent interest in the wives of American Presidents has led to the rediscovery of many First Ladies whose public service and accomplishments had been forgotten. The prime example is Lou Henry Hoover, a vivacious woman with a thoroughly modern approach to... -
Texas Bluebonnet: Lady Bird Johnson by David Murphy 9781611228113
RRP: £92.99£61.09Claudia Alta Taylor received her nickname "Lady Bird" as a small child and as "Lady Bird" she is known and loved throughout America today. "Bird" was President Lyndon Johnson's partner, confidante, and helpmate. She helped... -
The Other "Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham by Terry Barkley 9781611214819
RRP: £14.99£12.14"I didn't realize there was another 'hermit' of Walden Pond!" is the usual response author-historian Terry Barkley receives when he tells someone the subject of his new book. Henry David Thoreau's experiment there from 1845-1847 is widely known... -
Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America's 26th President by Dr. Andrew Vietze 9781608931743
RRP: £11.99£9.16When Theodore Roosevelt went into the Maine Woods with legendary Maine guide Bill Sewall, he was a sickly, asthmatic city boy. When he emerged several trips later, he was a robust, confident outdoorsman-the kind of man who could be president. This book... -
Russia Upside Down by Frank Columbus 9781604563177
RRP: £39.99£26.95If the people killed or starved to death by the Soviets were laid out end to end they would stretch half way to the moon. This compelling novel of life in the Soviet Union tells an up-front and personal story of a family who lived through the birth, life... -
Texas Bluebonnet: Lady Bird Johnson by David Murphy 9781600212598
RRP: £39.99£26.95Christened Claudia Alta Taylor when she was born in a country mansion near Karnack, Texas, she received her nickname "Lady Bird" as a small child; and as Lady Bird she is known and loved throughout America today. Perhaps that name was... -
Theodore Roosevelt: in Perspective by Professor Tom Lansford 9781594546563
RRP: £61.99£41.11President of the United States of America is an official title sought by many and won by only a few individuals. The series entitled First Men, America's President, contains a book length biography of each President of the United States of America. Every... -
Texas Bluebonnet: Lady Bird Jackson by David Murphy 9781594545566
RRP: £92.99£61.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594545566Author David MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 362g -
General and Madam de Lafayette: Partners in Liberty's Cause in the American and French Revolutions by Jason Lane 9781589790186
RRP: £19.99£15.42This biography of French liberator Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) reveals not only how the nineteen-year-old bravely ventured to the infant United States to serve in its War of Independence, but also the iconoclast's enormous contribution to the causes... -
The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana 9781574093100
RRP: £25.00£19.54A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the... -
In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique by Paul R. Henggeler 9781566637169
RRP: £18.99£14.32This is an intimate personal and political history of Lyndon Johnson's frustration with the Kennedy mystique, based on exhaustive new research. "Solidly researched, well written, carefully analyzed...a major contribution to recent American political... -
Dolley Madison by Paul M. Zall 9781560729372
RRP: £61.99£50.00One of the most beloved first ladies of all time, Dolley Madison was also, arguably the most well known and influential woman of her era. Presiding over the social affairs of both her husband's two terms in the 'President's House' and Jefferson's... -
Kentucky Clay: Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine R. Bateman 9781556527951
RRP: £21.95£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556527951Author Katherine R. BatemanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 504g -
Memoir Of 1603 And The Diary Of 1616-19 by Anne Clifford 9781551113395
RRP: £31.95£29.13Anne Clifford's memoir for the year 1603 and her diary of 1616-1619 are invaluable records of the daily life and social and family relationships of a noblewoman of her time. In them she records her travels, her reading, her religious observances, her... -
Washington's Golden Age: Hope Ridings Miller, the Society Beat, and the Rise of Women Journalists by Joseph Dalton 9781538116142
RRP: £25.00£19.89Real news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to Hope Ridings Miller's column in the Washington Post to see what was really going on in town. Cocktail parties,... -
Pierre de Thomas: Scholar, Diplomat, and Crusader by Frederick J Boehlke Jr 9781512800418
RRP: £91.00£79.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512800418Author Frederick J Boehlke JrFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania... -
The Promise of the West: Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien 9781493017263
RRP: £12.99£9.86Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as... -
Another Year Finds Me in Texas: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens by Vicki Adams Tongate 9781477324677
RRP: £25.99£22.49Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt's family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War... -
Joseph Bonaparte (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by John Stevens Cabot Abbott 9781409909019
RRP: £18.99£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409909019Author John Stevens Cabot AbbottFormat PaperbackImprint Dodo PressPublisher Dodo PressWeight(grams) 322g -
Rejoice in Adversity, Triumph in War: A Military Memoir by Rajpal Punia 9789356990180
£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356990180Author Rajpal PuniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India -
Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom by Larry Eugene Rivers 9781421440309
RRP: £35.00£31.24This first-of-its-kind biography tells the story of Rev. James Page, who rose from slavery in the nineteenth century to become a religious and political leader among African Americans as well as an international spokesperson for the cause of racial... -
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 by Joanna Moody 9780752440743
£21.38Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive... -
Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary by Steve Friesen 9781555917197
RRP: £26.95£20.62Like the great showman himself, Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary stands apart from other tributes to the man. Based upon the collection of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, this visual book provides a new perspective on William F. Cody.About the... -
Jim Corbett, Master of the Jungle: A Biography of India's Most Famous Hunter of Man-Eating Tigers and Leopards by Tim Werling 9781571571045
RRP: £30.00£21.01These are riveting, true-life tales of the legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eating tigers and leopards he tracked and killed in India in the early part of this century.Book InformationISBN 9781571571045Author Tim WerlingFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Survival of an Incorrigible Optimist: From Fascist Persecution to the Battlefields of Palestine by Leslie Paldon 9783869652597
£36.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869652597Author Leslie PaldonFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint LexxionPublisher LexxionWeight(grams) 3075g -
Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America: 150 True Stories of American Jewish Heroism by Seymour Brody 9780883910269
RRP: £16.99£11.59This book contains a useful tool for teaching or personal knowledge about Jewish-American History.Book InformationISBN 9780883910269Author Seymour BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Frederick FellPublisher Frederick Fell -
Citizen Hoover: A Critical Study of the Life and Times of J. Edgar Hoover and His FBI by Jay Rober Nash 9780911012606
£57.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911012606Author Jay Rober NashFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Nelson-Hall, IncPublisher Nelson-Hall, IncWeight(grams) 612g -
Unscathed by Fire: A Young Girl and the Italian Armistice of September 8, 1943 by Fiorenza Di Franco 9780874130348
£82.09Told through the astonished eyes of a young girl, this book narrates the vicissitudes that Fiorenza Di Franco and her family lived through against the backdrop of Hungary devastated by the tragic events of World War II. The original title ""A Young Girl... -
An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America—A Brother and Sister Escape the Nazis by Deborah Strobin 9781569805046
RRP: £17.95£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569805046Author Deborah StrobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 345g -
Maine in the World: Stories from Some of Those from Here Who Went Away by Neil Rolde 9780884483205
RRP: £14.99£14.02The inspiration for this book came from the tiny Pacific island of Kosrae in Micronesia, where Brewer native and Bangor Theological Seminary graduate the Reverend Galen Snow converted all of the natives to Christianity, and Portlander Harry Skillins left... -
Stars Over Montana: A Centennial Celebration Of The Men Who Shaped Glacier National Park by Glacier Association 9780762749034
RRP: £12.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762749034Author Glacier AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher TwoDot BooksWeight(grams) 21g -
An Ulster Slave Owner in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Life and Letters of John Black by Jonathan Jeffrey Wright 9781846827365
£62.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827365Author Jonathan Jeffrey WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 368g -
Always Bring a Crowd: The story of Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker by Beatrice Lumpkin 9780717808076
RRP: £19.99£17.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808076Author Beatrice LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
Pirates Laffite by William Davis 9780156032599
£17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032599Author William DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest Books -
Unsung Women in Somerset by Helen Pugh 9781804679869
£13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804679869Author Helen PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 755g -
Beyond the Gates of Hell by Colin Rushton 9781455614875
RRP: £17.99£11.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455614875Author Colin RushtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co -
In Search of Karl Mayer-Eymar: The Geologist That Time Forgot by David Hall 9781913012779
£14.68Karl Mayer-Eymar was a 19th century Swiss geologist and an expert in the Tertiary period. He was a complex character, multitalented, introverted and possibly autistic. He visited many locations in Europe and North Africa amassing a personal collection of...