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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
RRP: £19.99£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780618711697Author Megan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Mariner... -
Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman
RRP: £33.95£28.62The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a military coup.In the story of modern Poland, no one... -
Hobart's 79th Armoured Division at War: Invention, Innovation and Inspiration by Richard Doherty 9781526731524
RRP: £14.99£10.95Hobart's reputation as an armoured warfare specialist began in the pre-war era. In 1923 he transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Royal Tank Corps and quickly established himself as one of the foremost thinkers on armoured warfare. By 1938 he was... -
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
£17.08A chronicle of the US and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. It narrates the interrelationships between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and the destiny of the US, painting a portrait that fills in a historical... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: £25.00£18.30The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life: 2-vol. set by Michael Burlingame 9781421410586
RRP: £29.00£26.04In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along... -
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short
RRP: £16.99£12.28Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into... -
Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £15.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060837068Author Christopher HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: £16.99£12.47'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their... -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691174662
RRP: £25.00£20.30The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's... -
Henry II by W. L. Warren 9780300084740
RRP: £22.00£19.56Henry II (1133-1189) was an enigma in his own time and has continued to excite widely divergent judgments ever since. His quarrel with Archbishop Becket, his troubled relationships with his sons and with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and other dramatic... -
Gunpowder and Glory: The Explosive Life of Frank Brock OBE by Harry Smee
RRP: £25.00£18.30Picture a daredevil combatant, secret agent and brilliant inventor all rolled into one. Such a man was pyrotechnical genius Frank Brock, a scion of the famous firework family and one of Britain's great, unsung heroes. A remarkable combination of James... -
A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor 9781780228648
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan SunKinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains. She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an... -
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester 9780060884611
RRP: £17.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060884611Author Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Charles the Bold - The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy by Richard Vaughan 9780851159188
RRP: £29.99£23.01Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relationship with his subjects and his neighbours. It describes and... -
Victoire: A True Story of Espionage, Resistance and Survival in World War Two by Roland Philipps
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.Occupied Paris,... -
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends by Sarah Knights
RRP: £22.00£14.96The 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... -
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky 9780743284264
RRP: £20.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284264Author Edvard RadzinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend Gary L. Roberts 9780470128220
RRP: £19.00£13.15Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and... -
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport 9781398504455
RRP: £10.99£7.21'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily MailIn Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that... -
The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden by Peter L. Bergen
RRP: £12.99£8.41The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the "riveting" (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to... -
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch
RRP: £21.99£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451416865Author Thom HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 355g -
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: £16.99£11.47What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham 9781400067664
RRP: £33.00£22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781400067664Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House... -
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen 9780300078008
RRP: £16.99£14.61"A historian's biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."-New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing a man too often viewed as a cardboard tyrant, Kamen has... -
After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next by Jana Hensel
£15.94Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who... -
The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959: New Interpretations by Dr Mary Elizabeth Blanchard 9781783277643
RRP: £80.00£77.21Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and... -
George I by Ragnhild Hatton 9780300088830
£35.50In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic... -
Malta Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of Ten Weeks of War, April-?June 1942 by Denis Barnham 9781526766748
RRP: £14.99£11.11109s! Two, head-on views diving from my left, blinking with light. Curling blue tracers strand about me as I turn towards them. A third got my sight on him for an instant before he went under my nose. My helmets too big for me. Turn pressure pulls it... -
Road to the Stars by Yuri Gagarin 9780898757286
RRP: £19.95£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898757286Author Yuri GagarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)... -
The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800â1834 by Renee Fossett
RRP: £27.95£26.63One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Centuryseparated from his family, community, and languagefinding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of... -
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot 9780743269193
RRP: £21.00£13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269193Author David TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death" by David G. Marwell 9780393609530
RRP: £23.99£18.65Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life, chronicling his university studies, which led to two PhDs; his wartime... -
The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French by Richard Holmes 9780304367023
£14.87The definitive biography of Sir John French, by the increasingly famous Richard Holmes.Sir John French is a figure who has always aroused controversy. Douglas Haig despised him, while Churchill thought his leadership qualities unsurpassed. Despite being... -
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow 9780060566920
RRP: £22.99£18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780060566920Author David GarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Adventuress: The Life and Loves of Lucy, Lady Houston by Teresa Crompton
RRP: £20.00£15.67In the 1930s Lucy, Lady Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government. But politics had been far from her mind when, as young Fanny Radmall, she had set out to conquer the... -
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley 9781335044983
RRP: £19.99£13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335044983Author Thomas LockleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)... -
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: £35.95£29.19In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews... -
William Rufus by Frank Barlow
RRP: £25.00£21.32William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England's king for only 13 years (1087-1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography, here updated and reissued with a new preface, Frank... -
Alicia: My Story by APPLEMAN 9780553282184 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553282184Author Alicia ApplemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 170mm...