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Edward III (Penguin Monarchs): A Heroic Failure by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £8.99£6.65The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his contemporaries, the perfect king in those of later... -
The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World - New Revised Edition by John F White 9781526781871
RRP: £14.99£11.11The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil... -
A Black Cat Abroad: A Territorial Gunner's Selected Memories of the Second World War and the Italian Campaign (1943-1945) by Hadingham
RRP: £25.00£17.57A Black Cat Abroad is the untold WWII story of a 'Terrier' nicknamed 'Oscar': R.E.H. Hadingham (1915-2004), CBE, MC & Bar TD, better known as 'Buzzer', who was later chairman of Slazenger's and then the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon. Beginning... -
Sapper Dorothy: the Only English Woman Soldier in the Royal Engineers 51st Division, 79th Tunnelling Co. During the First World War by Dorothy Lawrence 9780857061355
£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061355Author Dorothy LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 150g -
Kublai Khan by John Man 9780553817188
RRP: £11.99£8.66In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He... -
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
RRP: £9.99£7.32The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised... -
Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe by Matthew Jenkinson
RRP: £26.49£18.61When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had... -
After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Toll 9781526761194
RRP: £12.99£9.34The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic first-hand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston and Clementine's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey 9781803993263
RRP: £12.99£9.87Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton by Edward Abel Smith 9781399011488
RRP: £20.00£14.51When Nicholas Winton cancelled his skiing holiday in favour of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the... -
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: £13.99£12.25A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germany's terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydrich-a key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been told"Gerwarth dispassionately examines Heydrich's rise and assassination, which resulted in a... -
Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Charles Dickens' Legendary A Christmas Carol by Carlo DeVito 9781604337792
RRP: £9.99£6.84Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.When Charles Dickens created the story that would become A Christmas Carol, little did... -
Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine Diana Souhami 9781784291327
RRP: £12.99£8.83Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a... -
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial by Mike Anderson 9781398503298 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.92'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but... -
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial by Mike Anderson
RRP: £9.99£6.61'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but... -
Churchill and the Jews by Martin Gilbert 9781416522577
RRP: £12.99£8.41CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS covers the whole life of this greatest of Britons -- from his youth, when he was shocked by the anti-Semitism displayed during the Dreyfus Affair, to his last meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, when he gave Ben-Gurion an... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead 9781529112016
RRP: £12.99£9.34A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and... -
Edward II (Penguin Monarchs): The Terrors of Kingship by Christopher Given-Wilson
RRP: £7.99£5.98'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness'The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Inept in... -
The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£7.05Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind closed doors.Even as a child, Princess Margaret - younger sister of Elizabeth - was noted for her theatrical and witty demeanour. Her... -
Daughter Of Persia by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian 9780552139281 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sisters. As a young woman, she... -
Daughter Of Persia by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian
RRP: £12.99£9.34Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sisters. As a young woman, she... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522155
RRP: £12.99£8.71A 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 the military coup of 1936 and enabled the... -
No Case to Answer: The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery by Andrew Cook 9781803994130
RRP: £14.99£11.55In the early hours of Thursday, 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire.Making off with a record haul of GBP2.6 million, the robbers received approximately GBP150,000 each (over GBP2... -
Gresley's Master Engineer, Bert Spencer: A Career in Railway Engineering and Design by Tim Hillier-Graves 9781399045070
RRP: £28.00£19.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Children Against Hitler: The Young Resistance Heroes of the Second World War by Monica Porter 9781526764287
RRP: £12.99£9.34Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier's best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real life stories of the children and teenagers who went further and actually stood up to the Nazis... -
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis 9780717806676
RRP: £17.99£16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717806676Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. -
Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams 9781847179166
RRP: £13.99£11.11Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams offers a unique, intimate account of his childhood in working-class Belfast and the turbulent years of social activism that followed. First published in 1996 - at a time when politics in the North was at an impasse, and the... -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: £12.99£9.23When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the... -
St George (new Edition) by Giles Morgan 9781843449652
RRP: £6.99£2.28St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around the third century AD. But England is only one country... -
Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction by Hugh Bowden
RRP: £8.99£6.65Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army... -
The Two Headed Whale by Sandy Winterbottom
RRP: £14.99£10.06Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was... -
Stalin's Russia by Chris Ward 9780340731512
RRP: £54.99£54.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime Agatha Christie 9781474619448
RRP: £9.99£7.00Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself,... -
The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II: Achievement, 1851-1869 by Angus Hawkins 9780199605149
RRP: £55.00£54.72Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the longest serving party leader in modern British politics, heading the Conservative party for twenty-two years from 1846 to 1868. He abolished slavery in the... -
Edith Stein by Sarah Borden 9780826452627
£19.04Edith Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1998 but is still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. She provides an example of a Christian thinker deeply engaged in the debates of her own day, and her work offers models and insights... -
One of Them Michael Cashman 9781526612366
RRP: £9.99£7.32'An extraordinary life, depicted with searing honesty ... A colourful journey sprinkled with delicious anecdotes' Daily Express 'Extraordinary ... You'll be ugly-sobbing at the end' Graham Norton 'It tells not just the story of his life, but also the... -
Abraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson
RRP: £12.49£9.59The first short biography of the sixteenth president by America's preeminent Civil War historian, Abraham Lincoln follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from their Kentucky farm to the Illinois legislature, and finally the nation's capitol... -
Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner 9781784291235
RRP: £12.99£8.83Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Counsel for Ethiopia by Richard Pankhurst 9780972317238
RRP: £12.95£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972317238Author Richard PankhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Tsehai PublishersPublisher Tsehai PublishersWeight(grams) 421g -
William IV (Penguin Monarchs): A King at Sea by Roger Knight
RRP: £4.99£3.96'He had brought nothing but trouble to the navy: how would he fare as King?'Known as the 'Sailor King', William IV was sent to join the navy by his father to discipline him, but instead became notorious for his calamitous years of service, his debts...