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Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir by Gore Vidal 9780349139104
£12.73POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with... -
Portrait of a Turkish Family Ifran Orga 9780907871828
RRP: £12.99£8.83Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat,... -
Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg 9780241503652 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.74'A remarkable tale of survival, in which Jewish life in pre-war Poland and the atrocities of the Holocaust appear through an almost dreamlike lens of childhood memory' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into... -
Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that inspired the film In the Heart of the Sea by Owen Chase
RRP: £9.99£3.01DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south of the equator, the whaling ship Essex, spotted and pursued a shoal of sperm whales. As the crew started harpooning, the largest whale - some... -
Lawrence of Arabia: Colonel T.E Lawrence CB, DSO – Places and Objects of Interest by Paul Kendall 9781399071918
RRP: £28.00£19.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss 9781444760712
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope'GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You Hope''Remarkable . . . Makes it clear just what an achievement... -
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley by Michael S. Malone
RRP: £17.99£13.30The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley, from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all. Over the past five decades, the tech industry has grown into one of the most important sectors of the global economy. Silicon Valley... -
The Anne Boleyn Bible by Mickey Mayhew 9781399083720 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00£10.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Anne Boleyn Bible Mickey Mayhew 9781399083720
RRP: £22.00£15.87Anne Boleyn sells, but she sells in segments; a biography here, a study over there on her guilt and something else yonder concerned with where she lived or what she liked to wear. This book, covering not just her life but her life onscreen, in theatre,... -
Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders
RRP: £12.99£8.80The hugely acclaimed, best-selling life of Hawkwood, one of the outstanding figures of English and European history. John Hawkwood was an Essex man who became the greatest mercenary in an age when soldiers of fortune flourished - an age that also... -
Life Of Thomas More: Book Club Edition by Peter Ackroyd 9780749386405 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29'Masterly' Observer'Brilliant' Independent on Sunday'Sparks of life' Daily MailThomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and... -
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
RRP: £22.00£16.02'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer's fortunes... -
The Royals by Kitty Kelley 9780446585149
RRP: £18.99£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446585149Author Kitty KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm)... -
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron by Andrew Roberts 9781398508712
RRP: £12.99£8.41'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and very readable' Andrew Lycett, Spectator 'Energetic and hugely entertaining' A.N.Wilson, TLSThe definitive biography of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount... -
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors by Dith Pran 9780300078732
RRP: £22.50£21.68"Childhood testimonies by survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. . . . Compelling."-Kirkus Reviews"Underscores with great poignancy the horror of the Pol Pot period."-Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Journal of Asian StudiesThis extraordinary book... -
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life by Gretchen Rubin 9780812971446
RRP: £21.00£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971446Author Gretchen RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 253gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Borgias: The Hidden History by G. J. Meyer
RRP: £21.00£14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345526922Author G. J. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly
RRP: £15.99£11.79Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered... -
James the Good: The Black Douglas by David R. Ross
RRP: £9.99£7.32Sir James the Good, one of the finest soldiers Scotland ever produced, is sometimes better known by the name given to him by the English - the 'Black Douglas'. He terrified the northern shires of England throughout the reign of King Robert the Bruce and... -
The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary by Sophie Therese Ambler 9781509837632
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.' - Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets and The TemplarsIt was around half-past eight in the morning, with summer rainclouds weighing... -
Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger by Giampietro, Sepp de 9781784383411
RRP: £25.00£18.02_ The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story with genuine verve and style [His] South Tyrolean origins, and his role in the Brandenburg Division make the book very distinctive._' Roger Moorhouse. The Brandenburgers were Hitler's... -
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin Chris Mullin 9781846682308
RRP: £12.99£9.34'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... -
Dwight D Eisenhower by Tom Wicker 9780805069075
RRP: £23.99£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069075Author Tom WickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 277g -
Merchants of Virtue by Paul C. R. Monk 9780993444265
£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993444265Author Paul C. R. MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Bloomtree PressPublisher Bloomtree Press -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £9.99£6.90Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural diaspora up to 1939. Many of those mourned or... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: £18.99£13.61The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated... -
The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: £14.99£10.95Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the... -
John Muir: The Scotsman who saved America's wild places Mary Colwell 9780745956664
RRP: £11.99£10.41John Muir is regarded as the 'father of America's national parks' and is a towering figure in the history of that country's involvement with ecology. Born into a harsh home in Dunbar, Scotland he would often escape to revel in the birds and wildlife of... -
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman 9780300273649
RRP: £12.99£11.46A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."-P. M. Jones, English Historical Review "Monumental. . . ... -
General James Longstreet by Jeffrey D. Wert 9780671892876
£16.13Argues that Longstreet was unfairly blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg.Book InformationISBN 9780671892876Author Jeffrey D. WertFormat PaperbackPage Count 527Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer 9780861546848
RRP: £10.99£7.60Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £10.99£7.99This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led... -
Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly 9780340836996 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65Beau Brummell's life is a riveting story of unparalleled fame, fashion and admiration followed by a descent into poverty and madness. The man who put Saville Row on the map, who could win friends, political arguments or the favours of women with apparent... -
Beau Brummell Ian Kelly 9780340836996
RRP: £12.99£8.83Beau Brummell's life is a riveting story of unparalleled fame, fashion and admiration followed by a descent into poverty and madness. The man who put Saville Row on the map, who could win friends, political arguments or the favours of women with apparent... -
The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens by Sally Nilsson 9780752460710
RRP: £8.99£7.05Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. Following this, his falling out with the 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' over the actions of the lifeboats saw him branded a... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia Robert Macklin 9781472140692
RRP: £14.99£10.05'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £17.50£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside Henry Bell 9780745338385
RRP: £16.99£11.71'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... -
Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £15.99£11.79'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors. If it can't be published, I hope my friends will circulate it among themselves. I'll leave Vietnam tomorrow...' Thus Thich Nhat Hanh begins his 11 May 1966 journal entry... -
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry 9780393321289
RRP: £19.99£17.37Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid...