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Friends of the People: The Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists by Owen R. Ashton 9780850365191
RRP: £15.95£14.44This is study of six Chartist Leaders. It portrays movements for democracy and social progress, and explores the role of the uneasy middle classes, in movements for working class rights. The comparative analysis provides insights in to the development of... -
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944 by Paddy Ashdown
RRP: £9.99£6.64From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and... -
Eugene de Kock: Assassin for the State by Anemari Jansen 9780624075738
RRP: £14.90£13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624075738Author Anemari JansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn': John Howard and the House of York by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Admiral and a very rich man (and his direct descendant... -
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History by Rebecca E. Karl
RRP: £19.99£17.54Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a... -
The Songaminute Man: How music brought my father home again by Simon McDermott
RRP: £16.99£11.87The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father's dementia. A tribute to the unbreakable bond between father and... -
Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert 9781403983787
RRP: £16.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403983787Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia by Robert Macklin
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
Titanic Valour: The Life of Fifth Officer Harold Lowe by Inger Sheil 9780752469966
RRP: £9.99£7.55Harold Lowe, Fifth Officer of RMS Titanic, was described by another survivor as 'the real hero of the Titanic.' After taking an active role in the evacuation, Lowe took command of a raft of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return... -
Follow Me Through: The Ups and Downs of a RAF Flying Instructor by Mike Brooke 9780752497013
RRP: £14.99£11.55Catch a rare glimpse into the training of the nation's defence personnel, as pilot turned flying instructor Mike Brooke shares with us some of his amusing firsthand flying stories. After his success as a Cold War Canberra pilot, Mike was dispatched to... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: £25.00£18.02The 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... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in... -
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation by Daniel C. Matt
£19.09The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition "In a series on Jewish Lives, this volume is about the Jewish life-the one that goes on forever. Becoming Elijah blends... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780198709879
RRP: £8.99£6.45'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published... -
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy by Ryan Patrick Hanley 9780691154053
RRP: £42.00£34.04Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II 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 ... -
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170595Author Celeste AlbaretFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma 9781838957674
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed... -
Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110712Author Susan QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Eclipse by Nicholas Clee
RRP: £16.99£13.09Epsom Downs, 3rd May, 1769: a chestnut with a white blaze scorches across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are 'nowhere'. Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An... -
The Politics Of James Connolly by Kieran Allen
RRP: £18.99£12.75Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups... -
The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People by James A. Michener 9780812986747
RRP: £13.99£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986747Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Richard III by Charles Ross 9780300079791
RRP: £25.00£20.92Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the... -
A Nurse and Mother by Evelyn Prentis 9780091941383 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.78'Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman gives to another and not the chilly facial movement from Matrons of old. "Do you think you would be able to work 9 to 3.30?" For a moment I couldn't think at all. There seemed something not quite right in... -
The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori 9781590172810
£18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172810Author Gregor Von RezzoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
RRP: £9.99£6.80The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times - immortalised in THE PURSUIT OF LOVE'A delicious mix of drama, melancholy and enchantment' DAILY... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315392Author Alice WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging by Sharon Maas 9781909770690 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.65'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging by Sharon Maas
RRP: £8.99£6.20'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon the Holocaust and the Lives of Andre and Magda Trocme by Richard Unsworth 9780815609704
RRP: £25.95£20.09This biography tells the story of Andre and Magda Trocme, two individuals who made nonviolence a way of life. During World War II, the southern French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and its surrounding villages became a center where Jews and others in... -
Mengele: Unmasking the ?Angel of Death? by David G. Marwell
RRP: £14.99£12.26Josef 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... -
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth
RRP: £12.99£9.09A New York Times Notable Book of 2014Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as... -
My Land and My People by The Dalai Lama 9780446674218
RRP: £15.99£11.16The story of the Dalai Lama's life, as well as a history of the subjugation of the Tibetan people by the Chinese government. Born into a modest farming family, he was only two years old when monks pronounced him the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.Book... -
His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712673648
RRP: £30.00£21.35Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out... -
Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun 9780803269033
RRP: £19.99£16.62"This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered. . . . Not by accident, not by mistake, but called by his name and... -
A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr 9780857891785 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£2.65Now a Major Motion Picture by legendary director David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen, Kiera Knightley and Michael Fassbender.In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest... -
Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906 by Carla King 9781906359928
RRP: £45.00£44.05Michael Davitt is known as the 'Father of the Land League'. His story of suffering and self-sacrifice, childhood eviction and exile, youthful radicalism, harsh imprisonment and eventual triumph over adversity ensures his memory in the pages of history... -
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£8.56Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in... -
Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville by Gemma Hollman 9780750989404
RRP: £16.99£12.94'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle - and her husband was about to fall from grace. ...