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The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece Horst Kruger 9781529113198
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary... -
Forty Autumns: A family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner 9780349141367
RRP: £12.99£8.83In Forty Autumns, Nina Willner recounts the history of three generations of her family - mothers, sisters, daughters and cousins - separated by forty years of Soviet rule, and reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Shortly after the end of the Second... -
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £18.99£16.58A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Philip II, Spain's best-known king"A superbly informed narrative of Philip II's long career as Europe's most powerful king."-Henry Kamen, Little Reviews"This... -
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Jessie Childs 9780712643474
RRP: £12.99£9.34Henry 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... -
Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland: A Life in Geopolitics by Henrik Meinander
RRP: £25.00£22.38Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to... -
The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
RRP: £12.99£9.34WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human freak, suffering Georgians knew that Hunter's skills might... -
Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography by Corrado Vivanti
RRP: £22.00£17.63This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's... -
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition by Mary Berg
RRP: £10.99£7.99Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant... -
Edward I by Michael Prestwich 9780300071573
RRP: £25.00£21.32Edward I-one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages-pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during... -
Tecumseh: A Life by John Peter Sugden 9780805061215
RRP: £29.00£20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805061215Author John Peter SugdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)... -
W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster
£35.51In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary... -
Stand Up, Speak Out: My Life Working for Women's Rights, Peace and Equality in Northern Ireland and Beyond by Monica McWilliams
RRP: £19.99£17.08By the age of ten, Monica McWilliams was dispensing payouts in her granny's post office, book-keeping for her cattle-dealer father and leaving no one in any doubt that she could stand up for herself. She went on to break the mould in so many ways, as a... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: £14.99£9.78The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the... -
Keir Hardie by Bob Holman
RRP: £11.99£10.95Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. At the turn of the 19th century he was Labour's most famous face. But despite being voted Labour's 'Greatest Hero' at the 2008 Party Conference, in recent years his... -
The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks 9781804944134
RRP: £10.99£7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804944134Author Sebastian FaulksFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin (Cornerstone)Publisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 267g -
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America by Daniel Schulman 9780451493545
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451493545Author Daniel SchulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Clara's War by Clara Kramer
RRP: £12.99£9.34On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
RRP: £12.99£10.26Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous contemporary controversy, and she has subsequently been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and... -
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
RRP: £25.00£16.43A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain ... -
You Can't Win by Jack Black 9781936239610
RRP: £18.99£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239610Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 566g -
Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
RRP: £17.50£12.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983500Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
RRP: £18.99£13.61'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched ... -
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Lionel Friedberg
RRP: £10.99£7.97Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires.Scotty Bowers, a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex... -
No Place Like Home: A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan by Pen Farthing
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out'When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad and Tali back from... -
The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba 9781904349679
RRP: £9.95£9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349679Author Anne SebbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
RRP: £8.99£6.30For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee.Frances... -
SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard: 3: Volume 3 R-W by Max Williams 9781781556382
RRP: £45.00£34.65Volume 3, officers with surnames R to W. In the turbulent times of the post-World War One era, new political parties emerged frequently in Germany, many with opposing extremist policies. The Communist movement grew out of the Socialist working classes... -
My Life by President Bill Clinton 9780099441359 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99£2.29President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the... -
My Life by President Bill Clinton 9780099441359
RRP: £21.99£16.01President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the... -
Roger Casement: 16Lives by Angus Mitchell
RRP: £16.99£13.09A fascinating examination of the extraordinary life of Roger Casement, executed as part of the 1916 rising, fighting the empire that had previously knighted him. Roger Casement was a British consul for two decades. However, his investigation into... -
American Caesar: Douglas Macarthur by William Manchester 9780316024747
£19.17Inspiring, outrageous...A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that... -
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £14.99£9.78The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses. The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved: Richard... -
Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.46Contrary to popular belief, Anglo-Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar's imperial coronation at... -
Zelensky: A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader by Steven Derix
RRP: £9.99£6.61Zelensky is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written for a Western audience. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world. Action-packed biography of Ukraine's... -
Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid Mollie Moran 9780718159993
RRP: £10.99£7.99'IF YOU LOVE DOWNTON, THIS IS RIGHT UP YOUR STREET! CloserIf you liked Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, it's time to discover the true story in Mollie Moran's Sunday Times charming bestselling memoir of life as a 1930s kitchen maid. When young... -
Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann 9780226327631
RRP: £21.00£19.58This biography of Helen Keller tells the story of the controversial and turbulent relationship between Helen and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. It chronicles Helens doomed love affair, her struggles to earn a living, her triumphs at Radcliffe College and... -
Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing by Kathryn Atherton 9781399061506
RRP: £20.00£17.90At the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across the... -
Slim: Unofficial History by John Douglas 9781844157914
RRP: £12.99£11.11Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's... -
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £14.99£10.06William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in... -
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
RRP: £18.99£18.14The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory "A perfectly paced biography."-Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer...