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Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Striner
RRP: £30.00£25.25A radical reinterpretation of America's greatest president. Where previous Lincoln biographers describe his temperament as "moderate," "passive," or even "conservative," historian Richard Striner offers a stunningly original perspective that will shed... -
Maestro: Andre Tchelistcheff and the Rebirth of Napa Valley by James O Gump
RRP: £23.99£17.07Wine insiders called Andre Tchelistcheff the "winemaker's winemaker," the "wine doctor," and simply "maestro." After Prohibition brought Napa Valley and its wine industry to the brink of catastrophe, Tchelistcheff (1901-94) proved essential in its... -
The class of '79: Three students who risked their lives to destroy apartheid by Janice Warman
RRP: £12.95£11.02Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quietest girls in the class, Marion Sparg joined the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe, trained in exile in Angola, and was eventually convicted of bombing three... -
John Adams by Anne Burleigh
RRP: £43.99£38.84The rare man who can sift the unchanging out of a constantly changing world is a man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to find universal patterns... -
Living a Life by Ravi Sawhney
£32.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195678631Author Ravi SawhneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Konark Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd -
An Englishman In Riyadh by David Urch
RRP: £12.99£9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956071651Author David UrchFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Sennesh 1921-1944 by Linda Atkinson
RRP: £17.95£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039143Author Linda AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous
RRP: £37.99£33.38Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines. This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys... -
Emmeline Pankhurst by Paula Bartley
RRP: £105.00£90.86In this well-structured, fluent and lively account, Paula Bartley uses new archival material to assess whether Pankhurst should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive. Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent campaigner for... -
Lenin: A Revolutionary Life by Christopher Read
RRP: £105.00£90.86From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly available in... -
The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry by Truman Nelson
RRP: £19.99£13.56Nelson explodes the conventional dismissal of John Brown as a fanatic, presenting him as a revolutionary who, at the cost of his own life, helped bring an end to slavery. A classic historical novel reissued for the 150th anniversary of Brown's celebrated... -
The Wolves at My Shadow: The Story of Ingelore Rothschild by Ingelore Rothschild
RRP: £19.99£17.54Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she... -
Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism - Language, Violence, and Identity by Sarah Colvin
RRP: £80.00£76.61First specialized study of Meinhof and the RAF in English, focusing on their use of language to justify extreme violence. In 1970 Ulrike Meinhof abandoned a career as a political journalist to join the Red Army Faction; captured as a terrorist along... -
Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Uses of Nationalism by Yuri Druzhnikov
RRP: £135.00£117.68As the central figure in Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799u1837) has been claimed by nearly every political faction, right and left, in Russian cultural politics over the past two centuries, culminating in his official canonization under the... -
Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 by Jessica L. Malay
RRP: £80.00£57.09Anne Clifford (1590-1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the... -
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1815-1834, Volume I by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
RRP: £63.00£52.26The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to... -
The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft by Russell Kirk
RRP: £45.99£40.13Robert A. Taft has been neglected by some historians and political theorists and vilified by others. Vigorously and impartially written, this book analyzes the ideas and influence of a great U.S. senator of the twentieth century. Here readers will find a... -
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
RRP: £18.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316561709Author Rebecca DonnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 141mm... -
Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography by Howard R. Lamar
RRP: £25.95£18.61Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original... -
The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century by Jean-Claude Schmitt
RRP: £27.99£24.14Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the... -
The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual-Theory, Ethnography, Activism by Regna Darnell
RRP: £62.00£53.96This inaugural volume of The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858-1942). Few of Boas's intellectual progeny span... -
Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist by Sergei Kan
RRP: £54.00£47.79This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic... -
Peter the Great by Stephen J. Lee
RRP: £89.99£78.09Peter the Great, whose reign saw the explosion of Russia onto the European scene, has become a legendary figure in history, as well as the subject of abiding controversy over the past two decades. Does he deserve the title 'The Great'? Was he... -
Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography by Diane Bjorklund
RRP: £26.00£24.85In this ambitious study, Diane Bjorklund explores the historical nature of self-narrative. Examining over 100 American autobiographers published in the last two centuries, she discusses not only well-known autobiographies such as Mark Twain and Andrew... -
In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism by Annette Libeskind Berkovits
RRP: £21.95£15.15Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapesaseveral years' worthawith his spectacular... -
Eva Peron: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works by Maria Belen Rabadan Vega
RRP: £55.00£45.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538139127Author Maria Belen Rabadan VegaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue by Otto J. Scott
RRP: £45.99£40.13It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin... -
A Begum and A Rani (The Untold Story of Hazrat Mahal and Rani Lakshmibai; their struggle, sacrifice and fight against the British in 1857): Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857 by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
RRP: £26.99£13.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090662Author Rudrangshu MukherjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 30mm -
Joel Barlow: American Citizen in a Revolutionary World by Richard Buel, Jr.
RRP: £33.00£29.92Poet, republican, diplomat, and entrepreneur, Joel Barlow filled many roles and registered impressive accomplishments. In the first biography of this fascinating figure in decades, Richard Buel Jr. recounts the life of a man more intimately connected to... -
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein
RRP: £18.99£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129224Author Nathan GorensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Chasing Ghosts:: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War by Louise DeSalvo
RRP: £20.99£17.18When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man-and... -
And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi by Eric R. Burner
RRP: £23.99£20.84"This moving account of a key figure in American history contributes greatly to our understanding of the past. It also informs our vision of the servant leader needed to guide the 1990s movement." Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's... -
Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, 1138-1193 by Paul M. Cobb
RRP: £22.50£18.95Known in the West as a "noble heathen," the great Muslim sultan Saladin led Muslim forces in the reconquest of the Crusader kingdoms and captured Jerusalem in 1187. This concise history traces Saladin's role in the contest between Islam and Christianity... -
FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends by Resa Willis
RRP: £24.99£21.81The last face FDR saw before he died was that of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress of thirty-one years. Although Eleanor, his children, and the press knew about Lucy, the American public would not hear of her until 1966. FDR and Lucy is the first book... -
Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him by Resa Willis
RRP: £25.99£23.03Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted... -
Nehru by Benjamin Zachariah
RRP: £105.00£90.86This engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he actually was. Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of the issues of his time, including the central... -
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
RRP: £20.00£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307956774Author Kara CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Moll Cutpurse and the Case of Mary Carleton by Elizabeth Spearing
£81.60Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century.Book InformationISBN 9781851960873Author Elizabeth SpearingFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Pickering &... -
Toward Nationalism's End - An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn by Adi Gordon
RRP: £32.00£31.11This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his... -
The Age of Astonishment: John Morris in the Extraordinary Century-From the Civil War to the Cold War by Bill Morris
RRP: £20.00£12.86An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing the life of one man who lived through it.It all began with a black-and-white family snapshot of a...