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Eleni by Nicholas Gage 9781860463464 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the... -
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
RRP: £12.99£9.09A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the... -
Hitler's Interpreter: The Memoirs of Paul Schmidt by Paul Schmidt 9780750965057
RRP: £17.99£14.04As an interpreter in the German Foreign Ministry, Paul-Otto Schmidt (1899-1970) was in attendance at some of the most decisive moments of twentieth-century history. Fluent in both English and French, he served as Hitler's translator during negotiations... -
Cnut (Penguin Monarchs): The North Sea King by Ryan Lavelle
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A reputation as a ruthless ruler was sealed that would last beyond his lifetime. In that respect, at least, Cnut had succeeded...'Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long... -
AEthelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
RRP: £18.99£16.18"AEthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way that... -
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach
RRP: £10.99£7.38A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World... -
Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution by Dr. Anne Dolan
RRP: £27.99£23.27`It was the most providential escape yet. It will probably have the effect of making them think that I am even more mysterious than they believe me to be, and that is saying a good deal.' Michael Collins knew the power of his persona, and capitalised... -
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
RRP: £20.99£15.34Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it... -
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
RRP: £12.99£9.26'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.'A notorious fiend', 'generally... -
My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill 9780684823454
RRP: £14.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684823454Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 422g -
William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by John van der Kiste
RRP: £15.99£12.25Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the... -
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
RRP: £12.99£8.56The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to... -
Dersu the Trapper by V. K. Arseniev 9780929701493
RRP: £15.00£12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701493Author V. K. ArsenievFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£7.11His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE was at the forefront of British public life since he married Princess Elizabeth in 1947. In the seventy years since, his wit (and the occasional 'gaffe') continued to endear him to the nation, as... -
The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives by Aidan Dodson 9781649031631
RRP: £29.99£24.16An innovative account of the careers of the Nubians who occupied the Egyptian throne, written by a leading Egyptologist and author of Tutankhamun, King of EgyptThe region of Nubia-now spanning the modern border between Egypt and Sudan-was long a subject... -
A Bare Chronicle of Existence: Stories and Letters from Internment in Norway During WW1 by Rebecca Clarke
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398456464Author Rebecca ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton by Edward Abel Smith 9781399011488
RRP: £20.00£14.29When Nicholas Winton cancelled his skiing holiday in favour of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£4.74SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951
RRP: £16.99£11.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
Henry I (Penguin Monarchs): The Father of His People by Edmund King
RRP: £7.99£5.79'To be a medieval king was a job of work ... This was a man who knew how to run a complex organization. He was England's CEO'The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I came to unchallenged power only after two of his brothers died in strange... -
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
RRP: £10.99£7.77Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern... -
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.47Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's Rasputin is the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.Nearly a century after his murder,... -
In My Father's House: The Years before 'The Hiding Place' by Corrie Ten Boom
RRP: £9.99£6.80Concentrating upon her family and their life in Holland before the war, this inspiring and revealing book describes in moving detail living above the family watch shop in Harlem and her memories of the family together before their lives changed for ever... -
The Queen by Andrew Morton 9781789294484
RRP: £20.00£10.56In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world. ... -
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
RRP: £10.99£7.77**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the... -
Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £16.99£16.66An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain. The... -
The Bending Cross: A biography of Eugene V. Debs by Ray Ginger 9781931859400
RRP: £24.99£19.20This moving biography presents the definitive story of the life of and legacy of the most eloquent spokesperson and leader of the US labour and socialist movements. Eugene Debs was a railway organiser and socialist. He ran for president five times, once... -
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs 9780712643474 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.69Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish... -
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs
RRP: £12.99£9.09Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Vividly told, engrossing history' CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler'Precise, empathic . . . a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant one' GUARDIANA thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's... -
Understanding J. Bruce Ismay: The True Story of the Man They Called 'The Coward of Titanic' by Clifford Ismay
RRP: £15.99£12.25Coward. Brute. Yellow-livered.For over 100 years, J. Bruce Ismay has been the scapegoat of the Titanic disaster. He is the villain of every film and TV drama: a fit and able-bodied man who sacrificed the lives of women and children in order to survive... -
The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present by Robert Rodriguez 9781736866504
RRP: £16.00£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736866504Author Robert RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Hermitary PressPublisher Hermitary PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959: New Interpretations by Dr Mary Elizabeth Blanchard 9781783277643
RRP: £80.00£76.61Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and... -
John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside by Henry Bell
RRP: £16.99£11.54'I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot' - John Maclean, Speech from the Dock, 1918. Feared by the government, adored by workers, celebrated by Lenin and Trotsky; the head of... -
The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £20.00£12.05'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 DEPTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.The... -
War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family by Nigel Cawthorne 9781802797183
RRP: £20.00£13.35Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with... -
Wellington: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert 9780586091098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on the fruits of modern research. Christopher Hibbert is Britain's... -
Forever Orange: A true Welsh love story by Johanna Francis
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991460Author Johanna FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 14mm -
Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King by Audrey Truschke
RRP: £18.99£15.07The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the... -
Memoirs Of A Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant
RRP: £18.00£12.21Memoirs of a Highland Lady is one of the most famous memoirs ever written. Since its first bowdlerised edition in 1898, it has been consistently in print. This is the first ever complete text.Written between 1845 and 1854 the memoirs were originally...