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Conspiracy, Calamity and Cover-up: The Truth Behind the Hess Flight to Scotland, May 10th 1941 by John Harris
RRP: £35.00£23.80The Hess affair requires an understanding of a variety of disciplines and practices: Wartime aviation, political history and human psychology to name but three. Harris and Wilbourn have over an extended period tried to learn as much as possible about all... -
King and Outlaw: The Real Robert the Bruce by Dr Chris Brown 9780750987929
RRP: £12.99£11.78The 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... -
Order, Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking by Ben Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.38Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out... -
Court Lady and Country Wife: Royal Privilege and Civil War - Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England by Lita Rose Betcherman
RRP: £19.99£13.75The Percy sisters were born during the reign of Elizabeth I, daughters of the Earl of Northumberland, one of the most powerful men in the land and a conspirator in the gun powder plot. They came to prominence at the Court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£12.64The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
Flight 777: The Mystery of Leslie Howard by Ian Colvin 9781526766793
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard, who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort... -
Historia Augusta: Volume I by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£23.39March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna... -
Patrick Pearse: 16Lives by Ruan O'Donnell
£19.57On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin's O'Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Nine days later, he was the first of the rebel leaders... -
John Wayne's America by Garry Wills 9780684838830
£18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838830Author Garry WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 497gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
A James Connolly Reader by Shaun Harkin
RRP: £16.99£12.07Considered by many to be Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression and imperialism. Active across the world, Connolly was a peerless organiser, sharp polemicist, and highly... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£11.62Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)-a summation of three and a half centuries of the... -
Changing Borders: A Kingdom Unlocked by Tony Smith
£12.11Tony Smith CBE spent his career managing our UK border controls, from junior immigration officer to Head of the UK Border Force. He spent more than four decades in the front line of the conflict between those who argue for open borders and free movement... -
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt 9780375758959
RRP: £22.00£13.11Apologies 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)... -
Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II by Kathryn Warner 9780750993968 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£6.99Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable... -
Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £12.99£9.62Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable... -
How to Draw Animals by Jack Hamm
RRP: £15.99£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399508028Author Jack HammFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell 9780300068801
RRP: £22.00£18.56The dramatic life of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew"A massive contribution to the history of the Reformation in England."-J. Enoch Powell, Times Higher Education Supplement William... -
The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris
£15.42The modem American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Camegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and... -
A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £19.99£14.35Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed... -
At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl by Hans Scholl
RRP: £14.99£9.88Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.Idealistic, serious, and sensible, Hans and Sophie Scholl joined the Hitler Youth... -
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton 9781681778044
RRP: £16.95£10.36Apologies 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... -
The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy by Ian Arthurson
RRP: £14.99£11.55Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk, the younger of the two sons of Edward IV imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard III, and whose true fate is unknown to this day. He led... -
The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert 9780547247816
RRP: £17.99£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247816Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39Socrates without Plato.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BC to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the... -
Blind Jack of Knaresborough by Arnold Kellett
RRP: £14.99£11.55Jack Metcalf was blinded by smallpox at the age of six, but he did not let this stop him from leading an astonishing and adventurous life - becoming an expert horseman, gambler and guide. He eloped at the age of twenty-one; ran numerous enterprises;... -
Napoleon Bonaparte: pocket GIANTS by Professor William Doyle
RRP: £6.99£5.47In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve... -
The Other Tudor Princess: Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII's Niece by Mary McGrigor 9780750966177
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Other Tudor Princess brings to life the story of Margaret Douglas, a shadowy and mysterious character in Tudor history - but who now takes centre stage in this tale of the bitter struggle for power during the reign of Henry VIII. Margaret is Henry's... -
The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual: The Story of James Arthur Harley by Pamela Roberts 9781838463069
RRP: £20.00£17.84Scholar, reverend, politician, and perhaps aristocrat... James Arthur Stanley Harley was certainly a polymath. Born in a poor village in the Caribbean island of Antigua, he went on to attend Howard, Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities, was ordained a... -
Marlborough: His Life and Times: Bk. 1 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780226106335
RRP: £45.00£38.63John 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... -
Are You With Me?: Kevin Boyle and the Rise of The Human Rights Movement by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £18.00£15.28Kevin Boyle (1943-2010) was one of the world's great human rights lawyers. In a career that lasted decades and spanned continents, he tackled issues ranging from freedom of the press to terrorism to minority rights. This compelling account of Kevin... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy by Charlotte Van den Broeck
RRP: £16.99£12.28'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... -
Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship by Christine Skelton
RRP: £20.00£14.53Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his 'best and truest friend'. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of... -
Praeterita by John Ruskin 9780192802415
RRP: £11.99£8.43'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian... -
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie
RRP: £16.99£12.94Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde,... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and... -
Gerrard Winstanley: The Digger's Life and Legacy by John Gurney
RRP: £24.99£16.38Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under... -
The Wild West in England by William F. Cody 9780803240544
RRP: £16.99£14.57Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American... -
Ernest Marples: The Shadow Behind Beeching by Brandon, David 9781526760180
RRP: £25.00£17.62Ernest Marples revolutionised three UK government departments. At Transport (1959-1964) he appointed Dr Beeching chairman of British Railways and commissioned him to produce his infamous report, inaugurated motorways and introduced significant... -
Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact by Lucinda Hawksley 9781526712301
RRP: £14.99£10.95Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young age, she knew her vocation was to be an artist. Lucinda Hawksley charts the life of a celebrated portrait... -
Goering: The Iron Man by Professor Richard Overy
RRP: £22.99£20.11Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle. Hermann Goering was...