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Gerald of Wales by Robert Bartlett 9780752440316
RRP: £12.99£9.62This study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.About the AuthorRobert Bartlett is professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of four other books... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings in Detail by Alessandro Vezzosi
RRP: £65.00£47.87Shedding new light on the renowned Renaissance artist, this book examines all of da Vinci's known paintings using recent advances in technology and the latest art historical research. While Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's most studied and renowned... -
Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class by Michael Gross 9780802161864
RRP: £21.99£14.83Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the... -
Philostratus: Apollonius of Tyana, III, Letters of Apollonius, Ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.88The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which... -
African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann 9780060954833
RRP: £14.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060954833Author Kuki GallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader by Richard Smitten 9780471023265
RRP: £24.00£15.77"An excellent read." -Ace Greenberg, Chairman, Bear Stearns Richard Smitten's Jesse Livermore is the first full biography of the legendary trader profiled in the bestselling Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley: 0-471-05970-6). Although he died more... -
Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
RRP: £35.00£24.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684826370Author Douglas Southall FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 1034g -
Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess by Inge Sargent 9780824816285
RRP: £19.95£12.12Just married and returning to live in her new husband's native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by hundreds of well-wishers displaying colorful banners, playing... -
The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton 9781784081720 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£3.01England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann
RRP: £20.95£17.88"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis...Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed more than ever."-Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly refreshes our... -
St George (new Edition) by Giles Morgan 9781843449652
RRP: £6.99£2.91St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around the third century AD. But England is only one country... -
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick 9781501198946
RRP: £20.00£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198946Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: £18.99£13.39Keith Douglas enlisted when World War II began, to fight and to try to make sense of history from within its turbulence. Like the major poets of World War I, his art was tried and tempered, and then curtailed. His letters tell the story of a man fully... -
Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World by Barbara Newman
RRP: £29.00£22.54Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Barbara Newman, a premier Hildegard... -
Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara by Vona Groarke 9781479817511
RRP: £18.99£16.72A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself... -
On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood by MS Irmgard A Hunt
RRP: £12.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060532185Author MS Irmgard A HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter 9780743211994
£11.13In this powerful memoir, former President and bestselling author Jimmy Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict... -
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West by Chris Enss 9781493008018
RRP: £14.99£11.53This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women's... -
The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power by Peter Ross Range 9780750995184
RRP: £25.00£18.94The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler's eight-year march to the pinnacle of German politics. On the night of 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. Even to Hitler... -
Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers
RRP: £35.95£29.96In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a... -
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali by Alberto Toscano 9781526753397
RRP: £19.99£14.28Italy, 1943/. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and... -
The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian by Raul Hilberg 9781566634281
RRP: £11.99£8.92This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work... -
Norton of Everest: The biography of E.F. Norton, soldier and mountaineer by Hugh Norton
RRP: £12.99£9.26Major Norton gave the order to fire two or three times ... Their advanced machine gunners could be seen rushing forward and establishing themselves in commanding posts ... Almost at once the ridge we were occupying was swept by machine gun fire ... ... -
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: £24.00£17.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113713Author Nancy IsenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm... -
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: £8.99£6.45Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect by Joachim C. Fest 9780745639185
£13.31Albert Speer remains the most mysterious character of the leadership of the Nazi regime. He was the chief architect of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler's confidant. Speer built the "Reichskanzlei" (official offices), discovered the "Lightdome" and was... -
Saladin by John Man 9780306825422
RRP: £17.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825422Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin 9780393635690
RRP: £20.99£18.44In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant. Alaric grew up near the border that separated Gothic... -
The Secrets of the Notebook: A royal love affair and a woman's quest to uncover her incredible family secret by Eve Haas
RRP: £9.99£7.11The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic and cruel death. 'The beautiful owner of this... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin 9780241239971
RRP: £20.00£13.77A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his... -
Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy by Penny Starns 9780750984379
RRP: £10.99£8.25Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as an SOE agent first came to light. She had been the first woman to be awarded the GC, as well as the Legion d'Honneur, and in 1950 the release... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.29Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place of his birth have been mis-stated - until now. James... -
Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Story of William Siborne & Great Model of Waterloo by Peter Hofschroer
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A first-class work of historical investigation.' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and WellingtonThe extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the... -
King James and the History of Homosexuality by Michael Young 9781781555439
RRP: £25.00£18.02James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in... -
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life by Marshall Frady 9780143036487
RRP: £24.00£16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm... -
Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: £9.99£7.55Before Diana Mitford's disgrace as a social pariah, she was a celebrated member of the Bright Young Things, moving at the centre of 1920s and '30s London high society. She was a muse to many: Helleu painted her, James Lees-Milne worshipped her, Evelyn... -
The Journey Back and the Journey Onwards by Eric Lewinsohn 9780645037753
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645037753Author Eric LewinsohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint ImmortalisePublisher ImmortaliseWeight(grams) 517g -
One Man, Two Worlds: Memoir of a Businessman in Politics by Richard Needham
RRP: £14.99£12.55"I came from a family of barely solvent aristocrats..." So begins one of the most refreshingly honest memoirs to have appeared in recent years. Richard Needham looks back on a life that straddles the worlds of commerce and politics, and that deeply... -
Destination Shanghai by Paul French 9789887792758
RRP: £13.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792758Author Paul FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 426g