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George & Robert Stephenson: A Passion for Success by David Ross 9780750988926
RRP: £19.99£15.26From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, except perhaps Robert's friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for... -
You'Ll be Hearing from Us!: Operation Anthropoid - the Assassination of Ss-ObergruppenfuHrer Reinhard Heydrich and its Consequences by Niall Cherry 9781912866229
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866229Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
RRP: £20.99£15.34Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: £12.99£9.34'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... -
Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak 9780752498843
RRP: £20.00£15.67Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle - yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at... -
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Camilla Townsend
£29.93Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. 'Malintzin', at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her dona Marina, and she has... -
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian by Blair Worden
RRP: £21.99£20.92Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely... -
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... -
A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon the Holocaust and the Lives of Andre and Magda Trocme by Richard Unsworth 9780815609704
RRP: £25.95£20.39This 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... -
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry 9780143126287
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126287Author Douglas PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 342g -
Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance Florence as it... -
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth
RRP: £12.99£9.34A 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... -
James II by John Miller 9780300087284
RRP: £18.99£16.18James II (1633-1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded... -
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... -
We Shall Never Surrender: British Voices 1939-1945 by Penelope Middelboe 9780330511346
RRP: £3.99£3.05Through the diaries of nine men and women We Shall Never Surrender tells the story of the war as they experienced it, whether at home struggling simply to keep going, in high office with direct influence on its outcome, or protesting against it. Some of... -
Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun 9780803269033
RRP: £19.99£17.04"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... -
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West by Joshua M. Greene 9781683831747
RRP: £14.99£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831747Author Joshua M. GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
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... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: £25.00£21.39This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought that 40,000 troops at most could be rescued. But... -
Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780753822050
£17.02Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young historian at Christ Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely... -
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C White
RRP: £19.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Prometheans: John Martin and the generation that stole the future Max Adams 9781849161732
RRP: £12.99£8.83The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely unschooled, they were part of a new generation of artists, scientists and inventors who witnessed the... -
Privileged Witness: A Patriot's Journey Through Partition and the Independence of Pakistan by M.K. Janjua 9780992756406
£21.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992756406Author M.K. JanjuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Geepy PublishingPublisher Geepy Publishing -
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird
RRP: £18.99£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451495242Author Kai BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
RRP: £12.99£8.80Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of... -
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic by Kate Colquhoun 9780349138565
£14.87In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. 'The Maybrick Mystery' had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty,... -
Tagic Matilda - Lady of Hay: The Life and Legends of Matilda de Braose by Peter Ford 9781910839430
RRP: £8.99£7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839430Author Peter FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books LtdWeight(grams) 148g -
Are You With Me?: Kevin Boyle and the Rise of The Human Rights Movement by Mike Chinoy
RRP: £18.00£15.52Kevin 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... -
Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
RRP: £14.99£11.66Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders... -
Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-Torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan 9780312330552
RRP: £16.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312330552Author Vivian Jeanette KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 381g -
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... -
Ernie O'Malley: A Life by Harry Martin
RRP: £16.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373909Author Harry MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg 9780156027519
RRP: £18.99£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027519Author Evgenia Semenova GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Shadows and Light: The Life of James McBey by Alasdair Soussi
RRP: £29.99£20.99Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). McBey was a Scottish superstar amongst the creative spirits that fuelled... -
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry by Anne de Courcy 9781474625173 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£7.08From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years.At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible... -
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry Anne de Courcy 9781474625173
RRP: £10.99£7.61From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years.At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla 9781603868174
£12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868174Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley 9780307463531
RRP: £18.99£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307463531Author Glynis RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Paul Kengor
RRP: £32.95£22.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505114447Author Paul KengorFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 231mm...