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Life Wasn't Boring by Colin Groves
RRP: £20.00£14.68Soldiering is a serious, frequently bloody business. That aspect has been documented endlessly. But behind the blood, thunder and de-humanising aspects of conflict are people - people in uniform and people supporting them. All of them have personal... -
Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China by Ian Gill 9789887554660
RRP: £14.99£11.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554660Author Ian GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith Books -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £14.99£10.14This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young... -
An American Life by Ronald Reagan 9781451628395
RRP: £23.99£16.31Apologies 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 *... -
American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace by John Hyde 9780393322286
RRP: £29.00£26.43The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman-loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial... -
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 9780679733768
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 1991.Book InformationISBN 9780679733768Author Laurel Thatcher UlrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy
RRP: £15.99£11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060854935Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers... -
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
RRP: £8.99£6.65Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great... -
Confessions Of A Yakuza by Jun'ichi Saga
RRP: £11.99£8.22This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to... -
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends Sarah Knights 9780349011493
RRP: £12.99£8.83The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it was modern' Daily Telegraph'I just... -
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... -
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
RRP: £14.99£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743749Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm... -
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli
RRP: £25.00£20.62This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism.The... -
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: £10.99£7.99During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit... -
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer 9781786076700
RRP: £10.99£7.99A 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... -
The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives by Aidan Dodson 9781649031631
RRP: £29.99£24.16An innovative account of the careers of the Nubians who occupied the Egyptian throne, written by a leading Egyptologist and author of Tutankhamun, King of EgyptThe region of Nubia-now spanning the modern border between Egypt and Sudan-was long a subject... -
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
RRP: £18.99£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848280Author Mark MathabaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 331g -
Beating Chains: Falsely Accused. Framed. Imprisoned. by Rusty Labuschagne
RRP: £9.99£7.00'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... -
George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £4.99£3.96The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackFor a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his... -
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton 9781681778044
RRP: £16.95£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681778044Author Elizabeth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm... -
Andrew Carnegie - Insight and Analysis into the Life of a True Entrepreneur, Industrialist, and Philanthropist by J R MacGregor 9781950010271
RRP: £17.95£15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010271Author J R MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network by Francis J. Suttill 9780750989374
RRP: £10.99£8.47In May 1940 Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the SOE, and after being trained during the summer of 1942, Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in northern... -
Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz by Elaine Murray Stone 9780809166374
RRP: £7.99£6.66Based on first-hand information. Here is the first English biography for middle graders on Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan who, at Auschwitz, offered himself in exchange for the life of a man with two children. The biography covers Kolbe's early... -
Have I Got Views For You by Boris Johnson
RRP: £12.99£8.71In his own inimitable style, Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, turns his attention to the culture, manners and morals of British society, giving us a humorous, at times furious, but always entertaining read. A witty anthology of pieces... -
The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family by Martin Pugh 9780099520436 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. In this gripping and incisive account of the Pankhursts, Martin Pugh reveals the full story behind this unique family: Emmeline, the... -
Nigeria's Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years by Max Siollun
RRP: £27.50£24.50In the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearly tore itself apart after the northern-led military government annulled the results of a 1993 presidential... -
Napoleon by Paul Johnson 9781842126509 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.'Written with his customary verve and certainty' Andrew Roberts, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHWritten with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious... -
Napoleon Paul Johnson 9781842126509
RRP: £9.99£6.15A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.'Written with his customary verve and certainty' Andrew Roberts, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHWritten with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious... -
The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Burger, Adolf 9781399019156
£16.67One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war... -
Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon 9781473871229
RRP: £19.99£14.50For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four... -
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements 9781914484773
RRP: £12.99£8.80'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... -
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £12.99£9.19_______________ 'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' - Sunday Times 'A small jewel of a biography' - The New Yorker 'A fascinating, hilarious and deliciously subversive book' - Literary Review ... -
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son by Beverley A. Murphy
RRP: £12.99£9.87It took Henry VIII twenty-eight years, three wives, and a break with Rome before he secured a legitimate male heir. Yet he already had a son - the illegitimate Henry Fitzroy. Fitzroy was born in 1519 after the King's affair with Elizabeth Blount. He was... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield 9780141003757 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.29Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: £17.99£12.95Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin... -
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell 9780226816821
RRP: £35.00£29.57The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics,... -
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley
RRP: £10.99£7.61Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas... -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes
RRP: £11.99£10.41An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This... -
Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril by Abdullah, II, King of Jordan
RRP: £12.99£9.34HRH King Abdullah was schooled in America and at Sandhurst and was heading for a life as a career soldier, when his father fell ill and he unexpectedly inherited the throne of Jordan. Fiercely loyal to his country but possessing an outsider's perspective... -
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup by Christopher De Bellaigue
RRP: £12.99£9.34On 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...