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A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9781802061406
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King Dan Jones 9781804541937
RRP: £25.00£18.30'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' – Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The... -
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
RRP: £14.99£9.90The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the... -
Miyamoto Musashi by Kenji Tokitsu
RRP: £36.00£22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805675Author Kenji TokitsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm)... -
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
RRP: £8.99£6.39'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling... -
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury 9781529365795
RRP: £10.99£7.61'DEVASTATINGLY AFFECTING' THE TIMES'EMOTIONALLY COMPELLING' OBSERVERIn 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring plan: to smuggle all her pupils out of Nazi Germany under the nose of the Gestapo.The - mostly Jewish -... -
The Traitor of Colditz: The Untold Story of Britain's Bravest Double Agent by Robert Verkaik 9781802795196
RRP: £9.99£5.78THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE... -
Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky by Oleg Gordievsky 9781839014901
RRP: £16.99£13.29Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in... -
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann 9781471164910
RRP: £8.99£6.01**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAMThe story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952436
RRP: £8.99£5.42THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam... -
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence by Mishal Husain 9780008531683
RRP: £18.99£10.59'Unforgettable' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Spell-binding' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Fascinating' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE An extraordinary family memoir from acclaimed newsreader and journalist, Mishal Husain, uncovering the story of her grandparents' lives amidst empire,... -
Nell and the Girls by Jeanne Gask 9781910183113
RRP: £7.99£5.88'Goodbye! There's my good girl.' The German got hold of Papa's arm roughly and said, 'Come on!' They got in the car and sped away, leaving the two breathless girls standing on the street corner, staring at where the car had been. 'What on earth was all... -
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen. by Nicola Tallis 9781789295191
RRP: £25.00£14.33Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's younger daughter, who spent the majority of her early years as a girl with an uncertain... -
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
RRP: £9.99£6.00'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.'Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was... -
Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words: The Sunday Times Number-One Bestseller by Andrew Morton
RRP: £10.99£6.35THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER. AS FEATURED IN SEASON 5 OF THE CROWN.When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992 it changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Never before had a senior royal spoken in such a raw,... -
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
RRP: £12.99£7.22THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author... -
Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
RRP: £16.99£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809648Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 264g -
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £12.99£9.55The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history"Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish."-Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books Oliver Cromwell... -
Coreyography by Corey Feldman 9781250054913
RRP: £19.00£11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054913Author Corey FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's Press -
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, Ufc Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy 9781982190927
RRP: £19.99£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982190927Author Tim KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 142mm... -
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617 by Franz Schmidt 9781629144801
RRP: £10.99£9.67Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason... -
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £25.00£17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127857Author Andrew RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 981gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm... -
Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism by Billy Waugh 9780060564100
RRP: £7.99£5.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060564100Author Billy WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe 9781785374470
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374470Author Richard O'RaweFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley 9781803995410
RRP: £25.00£17.13'Philippa Langley has done it again.' - THE TIMESA HISTORY HIT BOOK OF THE MONTHHistory re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved?'The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard III's grave in a car... -
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon
RRP: £16.95£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136103Author Emma SouthonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross 9781541674196
RRP: £30.00£22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674196Author Edward ShawcrossFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 161mm * 30mm -
Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon
RRP: £25.00£18.30***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***An FT, TELEGRAPH and THE TIMES Book of the Year'Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley,... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781784871512
RRP: £14.99£11.11'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ... -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
RRP: £12.99£8.70'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES ... -
The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.73The inspiration for the major film of the same name directed by George Clooney, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany. 'A moving, enlightening and gripping tale' - Financial TimesCast aside by his... -
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave by Mary Prince
RRP: £8.99£6.65The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in... -
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
RRP: £11.99£8.38San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in... -
The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz Colin Rushton 9781787833296
RRP: £8.99£5.24For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Choice, this is the incredible true story of a British soldier POW. In 1942, young British soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim... -
Our Story by Reginald Kray
RRP: £10.99£7.73London's most notorious gangsters, in their own words . . .The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and... -
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£5.23The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781843430858
RRP: £16.99£12.47The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781843430858 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£6.95The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to... -
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by Brian Groom 9780008471231
RRP: £10.99£7.46A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times ... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9781838959708
RRP: £12.99£9.20***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu...