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Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command... -
A Woman In Berlin Anonymous 9781844087976
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to... -
Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa by Cato Pedder 9781399810791
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.86'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer'Fascincating and engrossing' Literary ReviewHow did South Africa turn out the way it... -
Nine Lives: My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda by Aimen Dean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on... -
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel Kousser 9780062869685
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062869685Author Rachel KousserFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic... -
One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick 9781471192326
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.40'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The TimesNigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the... -
Decision Points George W. Bush 9780753539965
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard... -
Helmet for my Pillow: The World War Two Pacific Classic by Robert Leckie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICHere is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his... -
Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She... -
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin 9781529152616
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.61From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking... -
Down and Out in Paris and London (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.56HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that... As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer,... -
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.3170th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year' Colonel Tim CollinsPosted to Moscow as a young diplomat... -
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World Frank McLynn 9781784703509
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.67Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power,... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly,... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar 9781913543075
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.13A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.91The book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. Bullock divides the narrative into three main... -
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.22Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London... -
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief Ronald Hutton 9780300278941
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.22The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 by Chips Channon 9781529160215
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.27The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.'A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end of the 1930s.' Robert Harris'The uncensored,... -
Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell 9780008542658
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried... -
Maus: a Survivor's Tale: No 1 by Art Spiegelman
Booksplease Price: £22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679406419Author Art SpiegelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
The English Civil War: A People's History by Diane Purkiss
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.75A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history. The compelling narrative draws on new sources such as letters,... -
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.46The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history"Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish."-Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books Oliver Cromwell... -
10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills 9781910895733
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.45This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. - Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination... -
Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 by James Woodforde 9781853113116
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £19.25'fresh and eager...rich in character...so infectiously alive to the simple pleasures that even now the senses quicken to read it.' Jan Morris in The Times ...a brilliant picture of traditional English rural society ...(Parson Woodforde) is now among the... -
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. Ruthless in defence of his faith, brilliant in... -
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman 9781529063417
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.61A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes an epilogue reflecting upon Her Majesty's Platinum... -
Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, "Doc" Holliday, Luke Short and Others by W.B. (Bat) Masterson
RRP: £8.49Booksplease Price: £6.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486470146Author W.B. (Bat) MastersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore Bettany Hughes 9781845952143
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.06As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to... -
Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney by Peter Marshall 9780008394394
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.43'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de... -
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve 9780008406394 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.54'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our... -
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.24'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our... -
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell 9780349115054
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02'A sensational saga' Mail on Sunday'A cracking read' Lynn Barber, Observer'Engrossing from beginning to end' Vogue'Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating' New York Times Book ReviewEven if the six daughters, born between 1904 and... -
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal by Kim Donovan 9781399615389
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.02'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore'Drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam ChristerA true Victorian murder mystery...Great Yarmouth, September 1900: A young woman is found dead on the beach, a... -
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero by Lucy Riall 9780300144239
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.27The first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making... -
A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176658Author Madeline LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq,...