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A Pretoria Boy: The Story of South Africa's 'Public Enemy Number One' by Peter Hain
RRP: £20.00£13.46'A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner.' Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence'From fighting for Nelson Mandela's freedom to exposing his betrayal under Jacob Zuma, a 50 year story of constant campaigning.' Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcasterThe... -
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis 9780691150055
RRP: £30.00£23.69This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian,... -
With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates 9780060924713 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924713Author Stephen B. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates 9780060924713
RRP: £17.99£12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924713Author Stephen B. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos 9780300274264
RRP: £12.99£11.46A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators... -
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.40FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA' ... a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher' FRANCIS KING'du Maurier has no equal'... -
Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay 9780099597445
RRP: £15.99£11.61He was a debt-ridden dandy, a mid-ranking novelist armed with enormous political ambition. She was a moneyed widow twelve years older than her new husband, always overdressed for society dinners and never one to hold her tongue. From the outset, Mary... -
The First Treasure Divers: The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame by John Bevan 9781905492169
RRP: £12.99£9.09The recorded history of the diving industry has been fundamentally corrupted over the past 150 years. The result is a complete misunderstanding of how it all began. Who invented the diving helmet? Refer to any encyclopaedia or history book and the... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler by A. L. Sadler
RRP: £15.99£10.93Uncover the true history behind the critically acclaimed FX/Hulu series "SHOGUN" in this epic biography of the man who unified Medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun... -
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird 9780806113289 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.95£1.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Crafty Characters: Tales of Famous and Infamous Freemasons by Mike Neville 9781781559031
RRP: £20.00£14.29Many Freemasons have made the world a better place, while some have been villainous criminals. Members of the Craft have developed forensic science, solved famous crimes and invented all manner of things. Several members of the Royal Family have also... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg
RRP: £20.99£18.37On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of... -
Last Days of T.E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind by Paul Marriott 9781898595229
£40.98"It is quiet here now, and I feel as though I were fixed in my cottage for good. It is as I thought ... something is finished with my leaving the RAF. ... It gets worse instead of healing over ... At present the feeling is mere bewilderment. I imagine... -
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee 9780060520830
RRP: £15.99£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060520830Author Carol Ann LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
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 by Anne de Courcy
RRP: £10.99£7.40From 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... -
The Loneliest Boy in the World by Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
RRP: £11.99£9.75* `The Loneliest Boy in the World - he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain had a unique childhood - he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland's southwest coast. The nearest in age... -
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro 9780394499734
RRP: £60.00£41.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394499734Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1378gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg 9780156027519
RRP: £18.99£14.35Apologies 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... -
3 Commando Brigade by Ewen Southby-Tailyour 9780091926960
RRP: £15.99£11.61'The 3 Commando Brigade's six month deployment in Helmand Province was among the finest pieces of soldiering I have come across' General Sir Richard Dannett, Chief of General StaffIn October 2006, the Royal Marine Commandos took up their six month tour... -
Zachary Taylor by MR John S D Eisenhower 9780805082371
RRP: £30.00£17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805082371Author MR John S D EisenhowerImprint Times BooksPublisher Times Books -
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years by Stanislaus Joyce
RRP: £13.99£9.75Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in... -
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche by Serge Bile
RRP: £14.95£9.86#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History - Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the TitanicAn Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a... -
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir by Michael Bundock
RRP: £11.99£10.15The story of the extraordinary relationship between Francis Barber, a former slave, and Samuel Johnson, England's most distinguished man of letters"A remarkable work of detection, a biography of a black Briton from the eighteenth century that brings to... -
A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Edward Wake-Walker 9781913518011
RRP: £14.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518011Author Edward Wake-WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
King John by W. L. Warren 9780300073744
RRP: £25.00£21.32King John is a study of a king and his political misfortunes. It is also an examination of a fascinating era-the early thirteenth century, a period of profound social and political change and unprecedented insecurity. W.L. Warren paints a picture of the... -
Macmillan by Francis Beckett 9781904950660
RRP: £9.99£7.06Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardised his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons why the French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application to join in 1963.Book InformationISBN... -
Stepan Bandera -- The Life & Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide & Cult by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe
RRP: £33.90£28.95"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz... -
Service: A Navy Seal at War by Marcus Luttrell 9780316185387
RRP: £18.99£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316185387Author Marcus LuttrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
The Writing on the Wall by Juliet Rieden
RRP: £13.99£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760559489Author Juliet RiedenFormat PaperbackImprint Macmillan AustraliaPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 233mm *... -
History and the Historians of Medieval Spain by Peter Linehan 9780198219453
£89.15This is a study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the middle ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out process... -
Voyageur by Grace Lee Nute
RRP: £15.50£15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512138Author Grace Lee NuteFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U... -
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan
RRP: £12.99£8.60Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the... -
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
RRP: £16.99£11.47This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British history... -
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its... -
The If Man: Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the Inspiration for Kipling's Masterpiece by Chris Ash 9781907677748
RRP: £21.95£15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907677748Author Chris AshFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records by Keith Dockray 9781781553138
RRP: £14.99£10.95No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a callous murderer, he has been no less extravagantly...