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Mavis Batey: Bletchley Codebreaker - Garden Historian - Conservationist - Writer by Jean Stone
RRP: £20.00£14.91Late 1930s. When World War II was declared, Mavis Batey, previously studying German Romanticism, abandoned her studies to do her duty for her country. At Bletchley Park, Britain's best kept secret, she became one of the first women codebreakers, a... -
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign by Eric Metaxas 9781780783048
RRP: £14.99£11.11Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759 -1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. ... -
Nelson: The Sword of Albion Dr John Sugden 9781847922762
RRP: £35.00£25.89The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers. Here are Nelson's famous victories at the... -
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda 9780062116307
RRP: £11.99£8.49In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly twenty years,... -
Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas 9780718016166
RRP: £12.99£12.94From the New York Timesbest-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreakingbiography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentiethcentury, a man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive,deeply moving narrative,... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias
RRP: £18.99£13.76The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald by Flora Fraser 9781408879856
RRP: £10.99£7.99A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite' Andrew Roberts, Spectator 'Enthralling . . . Throws us straight into the fresh air, heather, rain... -
Attila The Hun by John Man
RRP: £10.99£7.99The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals... -
Philip Larkin: Selected Letters by Philip Larkin 9780571170487
RRP: £30.00£20.10The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer
RRP: £20.00£14.51How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds 9780008439910
RRP: £25.00£16.43‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be ‘great’, to gain historical... -
Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos
RRP: £27.50£23.29A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators... -
The Wilder Shores Of Love by Lesley Blanch
RRP: £9.99£7.00The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa."There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £12.99£8.71'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review 'Starts with an erupting volcano - and then... -
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner) T.J. Stiles 9781400031740
RRP: £21.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 2009 and Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781400031740Author T.J. StilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Fields of Orange Johanna Francis 9781800991460
RRP: £9.99£9.00Apologies 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 -
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard: And the British Revolution that Never Happened by Mike Jay
RRP: £12.99£3.66This is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the character in the fifth series of the BBC's popular television drama Poldark. Colonel Despard was the last person to be sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain - for high... -
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon 9780571099139
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes Sherston's Progress and both Memoirs,About the AuthorSiegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to... -
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson 9780300256666
RRP: £18.99£16.43Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring... -
Diana, William and Harry by James Patterson 9781529160642 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.14'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Diana, William and Harry James Patterson 9781529160642
RRP: £8.99£6.65'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Napoleon's Marshals: Twenty-Six Military Commanders of the First Empire by R P Dunn-Pattison 9780857065193
RRP: £21.00£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065193Author R P Dunn-PattisonFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 553g -
Memoirs Of A Revolutionary by Victor Serge
RRP: £13.99£9.70Apologies 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)... -
John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant by Raymond Lamont-Brown
RRP: £12.99£9.87A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages surrounding her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had over her? This biography aims to shed new light on these questions and to... -
Churchill: An Extraordinary Life by Sarah Gristwood 9781911358534 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65A short illustrated life of one of Britain's most revered people of all time, covering all periods of his life but always returning to his literal and spiritual home, Chartwell. Winston Churchill is one of the best-known and most revered... -
American Caesar by William Manch 9780316544986
RRP: £50.00£33.13MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brilliant biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike.Book InformationISBN... -
The Manley Memoirs by Beverly Manley 9789766373139
£16.67From stationmaster's daughter to wife of one of Jamaica's most charismatic prime ministers, Beverley Manley's life has been an odyssey. As a young girl, starved of her mother's love because she was darker than her siblings and forced to do housework... -
Elizabeth Woodville - A Life: The Real Story of the 'White Queen' by David MacGibbon
RRP: £10.99£6.72Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, mother of Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower, and grandmother of Henry VIII, has been vilified and defended in turn. Was she a cunning enchantress, an ambitious advancer of her family's fortunes, or a... -
Memoirs Of A Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant
RRP: £18.00£12.40Memoirs 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... -
Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it by Dr Julia Grace Patterson 9780008603526
RRP: £9.99£6.84The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. 'The NHS is an institution. But it's also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for... -
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie
RRP: £9.99£7.77Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the... -
The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990 by Tony Benn 9780099634119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£12.06The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events,... -
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn
RRP: £20.00£14.91The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn.Waco breaks new ground... -
The Guv'nor Revealed: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean by Lee Wortley 9781786064493
RRP: £8.99£6.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786064493Author Lee WortleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Blake Publishing LtdPublisher John Blake Publishing Ltd -
The Unofficial Donald Trump Annual 2019 by Adam G Goodwin 9781911622079 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Following the success of the Unofficial Jeremy Corbyn Annual 2018 comes another hilarious spoof annual, featuring a rather different man: Donald J. Trump. It would be fair to say that 2018 was quite a year for the Donald, and what better way to... -
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn by Lauren Mackay 9781350147058
RRP: £12.99£10.04The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation... -
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken 9780805065893
RRP: £29.99£20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065893Author Gregg HerkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99£6.90Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and... -
Gerald: A Portrait by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.33FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'A remarkable book . . . brilliant comic writing' THE TIMES'An enthralling picture of family life . . . devotion to Gerald, the man' KIRKUS REVIEWS'Du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH Sir Gerald du Maurier was... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£10.05There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have...