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Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia by Paul Klebnikov 9780156013307
RRP: £18.99£12.58Chronicles the life of the head of one of Moscow's gangster families, who financed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin and became one of his key advisors.Book InformationISBN 9780156013307Author Paul KlebnikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wadsworth... -
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt 9780007262687
RRP: £12.99£9.70Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest. This is the real-life account of... -
Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal by Roland Philipps
RRP: £20.00£13.50'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineRESISTANCE,... -
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking by William H. Cropper
RRP: £18.49£14.97Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and... -
Richard III: The Young King to be by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: £10.99£7.12A major new biography of the young Richard III. Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate... -
The Man Within: Winston Churchill an Intimate Portrait by Alison Carlson
RRP: £35.99£25.26Fifty years after his passing, The Man Within is meant to reinvigorate the spirit of Winston Churchill-approachable rather than academic, lively rather than staid. This collection features exceptional black-and-white photos, many of which are... -
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies 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... -
The Ghost In The Garden: in search of Darwin's lost garden by Jude Piesse
RRP: £9.99£6.70The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin's childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist's earliest... -
Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered by Tom McGrath
RRP: £15.99£11.61'A triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles Dungan Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his... -
Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles
RRP: £13.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 2016 and Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award 2016. Short-listed for California Book Award 2016 and Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in... -
Aubrey's Brief Lives by John Aubrey
RRP: £12.99£9.09WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURRJohn Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His 'lives' of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir... -
Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9781649031617
RRP: £29.99£24.96An innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan DodsonThe spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 has given him an afterlife... -
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David Von Drehle
RRP: £18.99£12.27One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this "original and highly readable account of a splendid American life" (The Wall Street Journal).When a veteran... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller 9781780275758
RRP: £14.99£14.79'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller 9781780275758 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£12.89'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Memoirs Of Catherine The Great by Hilde Hoogenboom
RRP: £13.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969870Author Catherine the GreatFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952 by Stuart Hadaway 9781848846593
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the early years of World War Two it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the whereabouts of the remains of RAF aircrew deemed 'Missing Believed Killed' was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (MRS) of the Air Ministry was... -
The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers by Kathryn Warner 9781526744937
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favourite and perhaps lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great... -
Some Sunny Day: A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story. by Madge Lambert
RRP: £7.99£5.94A moving true story of love on the front lines.It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma... -
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution by John Eidinow
RRP: £25.00£14.66Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a woman whose dedication to the cause of freedom in science and learning left an... -
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German... -
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
£20.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599686Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1164g -
Marlborough: His Life and Times: Bk. 2 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780226106359
RRP: £45.00£44.81John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose... -
The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee by Glyn Parry
RRP: £12.99£11.46Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book-the first full-length... -
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams 9780811202268
RRP: £16.99£14.61William Carlos Williams's medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in... -
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski
RRP: £22.50£18.67No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rudiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished... -
The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction by R. B. Bernstein
RRP: £8.99£8.13The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic... -
Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Masterful ... a breathtaking panorama of Roman politics at a crucial turning point in history' Simon J. V. Malloch, Literary ReviewHe was named son and heir by a murdered dictator. He came to Rome with nothing, surrounded by ruthless enemies. Yet... -
Hotel Bemelmans by Ludwig Bemelmans
RRP: £13.99£9.75If there is such a thing as a comfort food book, Bemelmans' stories are it. His evocative tales of grand hotel life have a reporter's eye for sensory detail, yet he always manages to bathe his world and it's lovable characters in the mood of a fairytale... -
Blown: The Incredible Story of John Goldsmith: Racehorse Trainer, Gambler and Wartime Secret Agent by Jamie Reid 9781910498453
RRP: £15.95£7.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910498453Author Jamie ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Racing Post BooksPublisher Racing Post Books -
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell
RRP: £16.99£13.34This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The... -
Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
RRP: £16.99£12.28Milligan's War is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britain's funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest... -
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli
RRP: £25.00£20.30This 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... -
Mary Queen of Scots and All That by Allan Burnett
£5.43Mary, Queen of Scots and All That is packed with historical facts about Scotland's headless heroine. Follow hot-blooded Mary's lifelong rivalry with her frosty cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England - and discover why the Queen of Scots gets her head... -
The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
RRP: £12.99£11.46Who was the historical Merlin? Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of... -
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - Battles of the Scarpe 1918 and Drocourt-Queant Line: 26 August - 2 September 1918 by Paul Oldfield
RRP: £19.99£14.28In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the... -
Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798 by Stella Tillyard 9780099732112 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29This is the biography of 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. Edward Fitzgerald was born in 1763. He spent his child-hood in Ireland. In 1780 he joined the army and sailed to... -
Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893 by Charles W Calhoun 9780805069525
RRP: £31.00£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069525Author Charles W. CalhounFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson 9780312658861
RRP: £28.00£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312658861Author Nicholas ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
One Journey, Many Lives by Barrington Augustus Sowden 9781803781204
RRP: £8.99£7.11"I spent six decades learning how never to reveal my weakness to anyone - now it's time for change." When he was just two and a half, Barrington Sowden's mother left him and his older sister in the care of his grandparents in Jamaica, joining the...