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Hitler's Interpreter by Paul Schmidt 9781781555163
RRP: £18.99£14.22As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France, Paul-Otto Schmidt was well placed to record his impressions of events from 1935 up to 1945... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: £7.99£5.98Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood Finlay J. Macdonald 9780751513486
RRP: £12.99£8.83CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are the stories of a childhood, of the hard years of the Depression, and then the departure of the island's young men... -
Memoirs by David Rockefeller
RRP: £15.99£13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969733Author David RockefellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm)... -
The Alchemy Of Air by Thomas Hager
RRP: £16.99£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307351791Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Queen Victoria's Lovers: Erotomania & Fantasy by Fred Vermorel 9780992832025
£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992832025Author Fred VermorelFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint Palace PublicationsPublisher Palace Publications -
Rasputin: A short life Frances Welch 9781780722320
RRP: £12.99£8.83Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with his fingers and boasting, 'I don't even know my ABC...' But, as the only person able to relieve the... -
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep by Siba Shakib 9780712623391 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the women and children to the capital, Kabul, and so began a life of day-to-day struggle in... -
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann 9781471179402 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.31KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE'Beautifully told' - John le Carre 'More than just history' - Michael PalinIn this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana... -
Notebooks: 1934-1947 by Victor Serge
RRP: £21.00£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372709Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 9789358562149
RRP: £13.95£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358562149Author Benjamin FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522117
RRP: £30.00£19.93A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify... -
Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America by Encyclopaedia Britannica
£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470117927Author Encyclopaedia BritannicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Laurence Bergreen 9781847247674
RRP: £14.99£10.05In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the... -
Special Operations Mindset by Life Is a Special Operation 9781946373113
RRP: £13.98£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946373113Author Life Is a Special OperationFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Littlestone LtdPublisher Littlestone LtdWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm)... -
Ansel Adams: A Biography by Mary Street Alinder
RRP: £16.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620408001Author Mary Street AlinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 554g -
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.48'She imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patience ... and ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personality ... Whoop, whoop! If anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let's get crowd-funding... -
Tornado Boys: Thrilling Tales from the Men and Women Who Have Operated This Indomitable Modern-Day Bomber by ,Ian Hall
RRP: £12.99£9.34Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever-popular Boys series, and differs from earlier titles. With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in 1994, the Tornado was among the first aircraft to be flown by both men and women. This is acknowledged in... -
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
RRP: £14.99£10.95Adolf Eichmann was responsible for transporting over two million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Yet he was an obscure figure until his sensational capture by the Israeli Secret Service in Argentina in 1960 and his... -
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck 9780299165048
RRP: £18.95£14.71That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out... -
James I: Scotland's King of England by John Matusiak 9780750986830
RRP: £15.99£12.43Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far. In... -
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
RRP: £9.99£6.90A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.'We are a prince from a line of princes.'Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh... -
Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak 9780300097429
RRP: £15.99£13.82Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful pediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many... -
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything by Kevin Cook 9780330529952
£10.47Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash, this is the legendary tale of a man who was married... -
The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
RRP: £12.99£11.46Who was the historical Merlin? Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
RRP: £12.99£9.34**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures,... -
Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers by George Behe
RRP: £20.00£15.04During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them. In spring 1912 three professional gamblers travelled from the USA... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£11.35King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both... -
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque 9781529109221
RRP: £20.00£13.50'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and... -
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99£9.74'Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian' The TimesBritain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the... -
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature by Irven M. Resnick
RRP: £16.95£12.85As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural world led Pope Pius XII to declare... -
The Spite of Fortune: The Fabulous Story of an 18th-Century Heiress by Kishanda Fulford
RRP: £25.00£17.90This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in... -
Robert Peel: A Biography Douglas Hurd 9780753823842
RRP: £14.99£10.45Life of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern... -
Mary Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £14.99£10.06From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power struggles that shook the foundations of Renaissance Europe. Revered by some as the rightful Queen of England, reviled by others as a murderous... -
Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life by Eric Weiner 9781501129049
RRP: £20.00£13.26New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that’s part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription.Ben Franklin lingers in our... -
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
RRP: £16.99£14.61Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father's achievements as a leader were greater still Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and... -
Putin by Philip Short
RRP: £30.00£20.77**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas, power...should read this outstanding biography' Ian Kershaw, author of Personality and PowerThis book is essential reading for anyone who wants to... -
Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution by Andrew Hopper 9780719071096
RRP: £19.99£18.10Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a... -
The White Sniper: Simo HaYha by Tapio Saarelainen 9781612004297
RRP: £24.95£17.87Simo Hayha (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all... -
Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy From Egbert to Elizabeth II by David Hilliam
RRP: £14.99£11.72Who invented the 'House of Windsor' as a royal name? Who founded Westminster Abbey? Which king had twenty-one illegitimate children? David Halliam answers all these questions and more. Here is a continuous history of the English monarchy, showing how the...