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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: £9.99£7.11'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
Mr Jones: The Man Who Kew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones by Martin Shipton
RRP: £19.99£16.82Murdered in Mongolia in 1935 on the orders of Stalin, the Welsh investigative journalist Gareth Jones is a national hero in Ukraine for reporting the truth about the Holodomor (the Soviet Union's politically-driven famine that killed millions) and is... -
Not Just Milk Stout: The Mackeson Family and their Hythe Brewery by Anne Petrie 9781803994574
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is the story of how the Mackeson brothers of Deal bought a brewery in the small Kent town of Hythe and transformed it into a producer of one of the biggest brewing success stories of the twentieth century - milk stout. The drink was a favourite in... -
Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II by Jacky Hyams 9781789462050 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. It was... -
Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £8.99£6.22They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. It was... -
Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution by Andrew Hopper 9780719071096
RRP: £19.99£17.82Sir 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... -
Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site by Jesse Marcel 9781601630261
RRP: £14.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601630261Author Jesse MarcelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 12mm -
Forgotten Warrior: The Life and Times of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith 1890-1942. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Guthrie by Canon Professor Michael Snape
RRP: £29.99£20.94Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, this compelling new biography charts the career of a distinguished but hitherto neglected hero of the British army. Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC commanded the British 18th Division... -
Divine Invasions by Lawrence Sutin
RRP: £10.99£7.78Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America's greatest novelists and science fiction's greatest ambassador to literary audiences.Philip K. Dick loosened the bonds of the genre, ultimately making his reputation as a literary writer who... -
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements 9781914484773
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times The first full account of the remarkable life of Jan Morris: writer, soldier, traveller, and trans pioneer. Jan Morris is widely considered one... -
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £20.00£14.29Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to... -
Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Ted Conover
RRP: £18.00£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727863Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Granuaile: The Pirate Queen by John Burke 9780717183500
RRP: £9.99£9.53Learn about Ireland's original rebel girl in this exciting new series of inspirational Irish lives In an exciting new series of books for children, John and Fatti Burke go deeper into the lives and subjects first introduced in Irelandopedia,... -
God's Pauper by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780571204939
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNikos Kazantzakis was born in 1883 in Herakleion on the island of Crete. During the Cretan revolt of 1897 his family was sent to the island of Naxos, where he... -
Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel 9780747596660
RRP: £16.99£12.28In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware... -
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander
RRP: £9.99£9.59How did you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera Hollander In the late 1960s -- that era of sexual chaos, when Playboy Clubs and love-ins were competing for national... -
Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas 9781471190308
RRP: £16.99£11.08A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier-shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.'A carefully researched and horribly compelling... -
Daisy: The life and loves of the Countess of Warwick by Sushila Anand
RRP: £10.99£7.40Daisy Warwick was an heiress in her own right and a renowned beauty when she married Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick, in 1880 at the age of 18. But she soon embarked on a passionate affair with Lord Charles Beresford who subsequently brought her... -
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... -
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers
RRP: £21.99£15.61For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded... -
J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America's Banker: Insight and Analysis into the Founder of Modern Finance and the American Banking System by J R MacGregor 9781950010295
RRP: £19.95£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010295Author J R MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: £20.00£14.48When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger by Greg Steinmetz
RRP: £12.99£8.18In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time... -
A Dress for Kathleen by Heather Richardson 9781912665297
RRP: £12.00£8.30'Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father's family that person was his sister Kathleen.' So begins Heather Richardson's astonishing fragmentary... -
Colkirk Tales: a unique and unforgettable memoir of life in a Norfolk village 1897-1927 by Paul Absolon 9781915067159
RRP: £8.99£6.45"My earliest recollection of Colkirk was, I think, the Diamond Jubilee of good Queen Victoria in 1897 ... " Alfred Absolon's memoir is a unique window into life in rural Norfolk before the Great War and a story full of his family's farming heritage... -
The Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.77'those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means' Mahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century. A religious and... -
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
RRP: £13.99£12.25A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin"Kathryn Tempest leads us into the complexities and contradictions in the life and legacy of... -
An American Life by Ronald Reagan 9781451628395
RRP: £22.00£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628395Author Ronald ReaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Sayings of Benjamin Disraeli by Benjamin Disraeli
RRP: £8.99£6.13The 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... -
Churchill and the Jews by Martin Gilbert 9781416522577
RRP: £12.99£8.18CHURCHILL 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... -
John (Penguin Monarchs): An Evil King? by Nicholas Vincent 9780141977690
RRP: £14.99£10.95King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be... -
Escape From Auschwitz by Andrey Pogozhev 9781526776495
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to... -
Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 by Sandeep Jauhar
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New... -
William Osler: A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss
RRP: £32.49£24.20William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor... -
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning by Alex Halberstadt
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book... incisive, radiant' Olivia Laing'Illuminating, dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator'Enthralling... a triumph' Andrew SolomonAlex Halberstadt returns to Russia, the troubled, enigmatic land of his... -
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup by Christopher De Bellaigue
RRP: £12.99£9.09On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister. To Winston Churchill he was a lunatic, determined to... -
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer 9781786076700
RRP: £10.99£7.77A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's... -
Rasputin and his Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra by Mickey Mayhew
RRP: £22.00£15.62RASPUTIN'S RELATIONSHIP with Russia's last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work,... -
Beating Chains: Falsely Accused. Framed. Imprisoned. by Rusty Labuschagne
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Few would've survived Rusty's ordeal - an incredible story of hope and resilience' - Stephen McGown, author of Six Years a Hostage Rusty Labuschagne has been through a trauma few have experienced and disclosed. In 2003, the successful Zimbabwean...