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Churchill's Bodyguard Tom Hickman 9780755314492
RRP: £10.99£7.61For fans of Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, discover the story of Walter H. Thompson, the man who saved Winston Churchill's life more than once.Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1945, brought back from retirement at the outbreak of... -
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino Jane Stevenson 9781800241978
RRP: £30.00£21.29The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's... -
Clementine Churchill by Mary Soames
RRP: £25.00£18.02When Clementine, Lady Spencer-Churchill died in 1977, aged 92, she had become a much-loved and iconic figure to the British public. In spite of being instantly recognisable as the seemingly serene, cool and detached wife of Winston Churchill, she had... -
Georgiana: Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda Niall 9780522847437
RRP: £28.95£22.18After a childhood among artists, French emigres and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands. A gifted portraitist, professionally trained in London, she earned her own living in... -
Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution by Dr. Anne Dolan
RRP: £27.99£23.63`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... -
After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond by Bas von Benda-Beckmann
RRP: £25.00£17.57On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham 9780812979480
RRP: £21.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979480Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit: A Life of Dorothy Wellesley by Jane Wellesley 9781914518232
RRP: £30.00£21.69Dorothy Wellesley was a poet, gardener, traveller and heiress; she was also bisexual and a rebel. She became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, wrecking her marriage to the Duke of Wellington. She was the intimate friend of W.B. Yeats in his final years... -
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings 9780349128566
RRP: £25.00£14.66Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of... -
Edward IV (Penguin Monarchs): The Summer King by A. J. Pollard
RRP: £7.99£5.50'Edward was a man of considerable charm, who perhaps relied too much upon that charm to keep tensions within his entourage at bay' In 1461 Edward earl of March, a handsome, charismatic eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne during the first... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography by Lady Margaret Thatcher 9780062012340
RRP: £22.99£14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062012340Author Lady Margaret ThatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 788Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
RRP: £20.00£14.26The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to... -
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Col David H Hackworth
RRP: £27.00£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982144043Author David HackworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy by Benny Morris
RRP: £16.99£14.61A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage Sidney Reilly (c. 1873-1925) is one of the most colorful and best-known spies of the twentieth century. Emerging from humble beginnings in southern Russia, Reilly... -
James I (Penguin Monarchs): The Phoenix King by Thomas Cogswell
RRP: £7.99£5.98'First and foremost, he survived, and that was no mean achievement' James's reign marked one of the rare breaks in England's monarchy. Already James VI of Scotland, on Elizabeth I's death he became James I of England and Ireland, uniting the British... -
Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam by Marjorie Pivar 9780312314316
RRP: £21.99£15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312314316Author Quang Van NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm)... -
Personal Impressions: Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157702
RRP: £25.00£19.58In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin... -
The Bloomsbury Group by Frances Spalding
£16.34'A delightful introduction to an enduring subject' - Angela Wintle, Sussex Life The most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the two wars, 'The Bloomsbury Group' was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their... -
Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore' by Alison Weir 9780099546481 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. In this,... -
Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore' by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. In this,... -
Richard I (Penguin Monarchs): The Crusader King by Thomas Asbridge
RRP: £7.99£5.98'Here is the English sovereign as a crusader, battling on the fringes of the known world; the warrior-king ... imbued with the heart of a lion'Even within his own lifetime Richard I, dubbed the 'Lionheart', attained a kind of semi-mythical status as a... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756764Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Faces of HMS Royal Oak: The 'Mighty Oak' Disaster at Scapa Flow by Dilip Sarkar 9781399062329
RRP: £25.00£17.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin Elaine Feinstein 9780753820643
RRP: £12.99£8.83Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millionsAnna Akhmatova is recognised as one of the greatest poets of Russian literature, an iconic figure who gave voice to the suffering of the Russian people during the... -
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £14.99£9.96'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa Gregory The dramatic... -
A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi by Martin Lings 9780946621507
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621507Author Martin LingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts Society -
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: £12.99£9.34Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been... -
Barefoot Soldier by Johnson Beharry
RRP: £12.99£8.83Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In 1999 he... -
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave by Alex Andriesse
RRP: £14.99£10.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371290Author Alex AndriesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Lone Samurai by William Scott Wilson
RRP: £23.00£15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309872Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Lost War Horses of Cairo: The Passion of Dorothy Brooke by Grant Hayter-Menzies
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery.Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War,... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99£13.82On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,... -
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
RRP: £12.99£9.50'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... -
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.00£8.17'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne... -
Constantine the Emperor by David Potter 9780199755868
RRP: £30.49£22.76This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply... -
James I by Michael Brown
RRP: £25.00£20.62Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a wide... -
Martin Luther King by Godfrey Hodgson 9781849162623 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.15Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America's first black president in November 2008 has... -
Martin Luther King Godfrey Hodgson 9781849162623
RRP: £12.99£8.83Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America's first black president in November 2008 has... -
William Wallace by Andrew Fisher
£11.58William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the... -
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and their Legacy in American Music by Charles Hirshberg 9780743243827
RRP: £19.99£13.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743243827Author Charles HirshbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 403g