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Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam 9780471758853
£23.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471758853Author Angus KonstamFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
King Henry VIII by Angela Royston
RRP: £6.00£4.60Henry Tudor is probably the best known king in English history, most famous for having had six wives. Henry wanted immortality, not as a notorious husband, but as a king who made England strong and powerful. Essential to that, he believed, was the... -
Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicolas II by John van der Kiste
RRP: £10.99£8.47This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution. Important new letters and photographs are also included.Book InformationISBN... -
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
RRP: £18.99£13.61Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these... -
More Testing Times: Test Flying in the 1980s and '90s by Mike Brooke 9780750969857
RRP: £14.99£11.55Following his first three successful books, describing his long career as a military pilot, Mike Brooke completes the story with more tales of test flying during the 1980s and '90s. During this period his career changed to see him take control of flying... -
Bowen's Court & Seven Winters by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: £12.99£9.34Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of... -
Belfast to Benghazi: Untold challenges of war by Rupert Wieloch 9781861515667
£19.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861515667Author Rupert WielochFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 40mm -
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Ophelia Field 9781474605359 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she... -
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture Ophelia Field 9781474605359
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she... -
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions Arash Azizi 9780861541171
RRP: £10.99£7.21'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the... -
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz by Primo Levi
RRP: £12.99£4.88A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist... -
King and Outlaw: The Real Robert the Bruce Dr Chris Brown 9780750987929
RRP: £12.99£11.96The iconic figure of Robert the Bruce has gone down through the centuries as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time. With equal parts tenacity and ruthlessness, he had himself crowned King of Scotland after murdering one of his most powerful... -
Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell 9781529105476
RRP: £15.99£6.72'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful, aloof... -
Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary the First Complete Edition by Hannah Senesh 9781580233422
RRP: £14.99£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233422Author Hannah SeneshFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Highland Lady In Ireland: Journals 1840-50 by Elizabeth Grant
RRP: £16.00£11.13'They have made an Irishwoman of you now, and may they know the value of the daughter they adopted into their country.' Elizabeth Grant's sisterThe early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady... -
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt 9780375758959
RRP: £22.00£13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758959Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £14.99£11.47'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent ... -
Gerald of Wales by Robert Bartlett 9780752440316
RRP: £12.99£9.87This study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.About the AuthorRobert Bartlett is professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of four other books... -
Mary Ann Cotton: The West Auckland Borgia by Martin Connolly 9781473876200
RRP: £14.99£11.11A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung 9781845963088 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.13In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.99In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and... -
Charles I's Private Life by Mark Turnbull 9781399082907
RRP: £25.00£17.90The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the civil war and his head. But there is more to Charles than the civil war and his death. To fully appreciate the... -
Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper Neil Buttery 9781399084475
RRP: £20.00£14.51The great Elizabeth Raffald used to be a household name, and her list of accomplishments would make even the highest of achievers feel suddenly impotent. After becoming housekeeper at Arley Hall in Cheshire at age twenty-five, she married and moved to... -
Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family by William H. Leckie 9780806130279
RRP: £18.95£13.46Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry ""Buffalo Soldiers,"" and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring... -
Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £12.99£8.35A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from... -
Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence J Jones 9780806137414
RRP: £21.95£19.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806137414Author Prudence J JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 481g -
Faithful in Adversity: The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War John Broom 9781526749550
RRP: £25.00£18.30The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation from the death camps of Germany and the Far East, RAMC personnel were frequently close to the front line,... -
Edward the Confessor: King of England by Peter Rex
RRP: £12.99£8.71Edward the Confessor was the son of King Aethelred the Unready of the House of Wessex. The family was exiled to Normandy when the Danish invaded England in 1013 but, with the nation in crisis on the death of King Harthacnut twenty-nine years later,... -
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
RRP: £7.95£6.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529107Author Carolina Maria de JesusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
Macbeth: The True Story by Fiona Watson
RRP: £12.99£8.83Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried beneath the layers of myth, a history that is entirely different from, but just as extraordinary as, that... -
The Sayings of Benjamin Disraeli by Benjamin Disraeli
RRP: £8.99£6.32The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - with a new foreword by Lord Lexden. Disraeli was one of the least orthodox of Prime Ministers. He was an adventurer who fought his way to 'the... -
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: £18.99£13.61The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical... -
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal 9780806122199
£19.12"If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the... -
Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players by Sharon Mather 9781911397786
RRP: £25.00£17.57Sir Edward 'Eddie' Marsh was an ornament of early twentieth-century society; a respected civil servant, polymath and scholar who led a remarkable life. Always at the heart of the establishment, he was Winston Churchill's longest serving Private Secretary... -
Beyond the Gatehouse: The Eccentric Lives of the English Aristocracy by David Long
RRP: £12.99£9.87Beyond the Gatehouse is a lighthearted, witty but factual biographical account of the eccentric lifestyles of the builders and residents of some of England's best-known country houses. Extraordinary buildings require extraordinary people, and over the... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.71WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the... -
Charles: The Misunderstood Prince. 'The royal biography everyone's talking about' The Daily Mail by Sally Bedell Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.34Heir. Prince. King. Discover the real Charles - our King - in the definitive biography from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen 'Brilliant, startling. The royal biography everyone's talking about' Daily Mail_________His destiny was to become... -
Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology by Peter Der Manuelian
RRP: £31.49£28.78In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western... -
The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917 by Lindsey Hughes 9780826430816
£28.38This book presents a vivid and original portrait of the entire Romanov family, who shaped Russian history and politics for three centuries and whose legacy still sparks the public's imagination. For 300 years the history of Russia was inextricably linked... -
Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There by Gillian Mawson 9781526781512
RRP: £14.99£11.11With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial...