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Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn': John Howard and the House of York by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: £9.99£7.77In 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... -
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... -
Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Alexander Larman 9781781851098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£3.07He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'. He went to Oxford University at the age of 12. He slept with his first prostitute at 13. He was an alcoholic by 14. He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18. He was acclaimed a war hero at 19. He died of... -
A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend by Walter Charles Langer 9781646797639
RRP: £22.99£19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646797639Author Walter Charles LangerFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged by William C. Davis 9780306824166
£30.85Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. In Crucible of Command , William C. Davis, one of America's preeminent historians, presents a thoroughly fresh portrait of these great commanders, revealing their... -
Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother Anne Sebba 9781474615174
RRP: £14.99£9.02Jennie Churchill was said to have had two hundred lovers, three of whom she married. But her love for her son Winston never wavered. Jennie Churchill is an intimate picture of her glittering but ultimately tragic life, and the powerful mutual infatuation... -
Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World by Richard Middleton
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300196801Author Richard MiddletonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: £24.00£17.96Apologies 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... -
Bare Feet and Tackety Boots by Archie Cameron
RRP: £7.95£6.11A survivor's tale, this book presents a social history and personal anecdote of those born and raised on the island of Rum before World War I. The largest of four small islands located off the west coast of Scotland, Rum is home to several volcanic peaks... -
A Nurse in Action by Evelyn Prentis 9780091941376 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.82'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would be safe... -
Zelensky: The President and His Country by Steven Derix
RRP: £16.99£11.08Zelensky is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written for a Western audience. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world. Action-packed biography of Ukraine's... -
Gunboat Command by Antony Hichens 9781473822962
RRP: £16.99£12.87This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or 'Hitch' as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his... -
The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers by Kathryn Warner 9781526744937
RRP: £25.00£17.90The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favourite and perhaps lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great... -
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts 9781984879288
RRP: £25.00£17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879288Author Andrew RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 151mm... -
Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz 9780300108538
£49.37A chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their... -
Speaking For Themselves: The Private Letters Of Sir Winston And Lady Churchill by Mary Soames 9780552997508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29The fascinating, insightful and often moving correspondence between Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill extends from their early days of innocent courtship in 1908 to Winston Churchill's death in 1965.The letters serve not only as a chronicle of... -
Speaking For Themselves: The Private Letters Of Sir Winston And Lady Churchill by Mary Soames
RRP: £25.00£18.02The fascinating, insightful and often moving correspondence between Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill extends from their early days of innocent courtship in 1908 to Winston Churchill's death in 1965.The letters serve not only as a chronicle of... -
Simon de Montfort by J.R. Maddicott 9780521376365
RRP: £44.99£38.54This book provides a new account of one of the most famous men of the English middle ages: Simon de Montfort. It traces his career from his origins as the younger son of a French noble family, through his elevation in England as the close friend and... -
Agnetha Faltskog the Girl with the Golden Hair by Daniel Ward 9781781555217
£17.97Her iconic blonde looks, stunning voice and songs of loneliness and melancholy have endeared her to millions, yet Agnetha Faltskog remains an enigmatic and distant figure. From her success as a teenage singer and songwriter in Sweden in the late 1960 s... -
A Spy in the Sky: A Photographic Reconnaissance Spitfire Pilot in WWII by Kenneth B. Johnson 9781526761569
RRP: £19.99£14.50Many stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF's young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe, and of the dogged courage of the men of Bomber Command flying night after night over Germany in the face of flak and Focke-Wulfs, yet... -
Crafty Characters: Tales of Famous and Infamous Freemasons by Mike Neville 9781781559031
RRP: £20.00£14.51Many 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... -
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII by Professor David Loades 9781445615387 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Thomas Cromwell was a selfmade lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey was an apprenticeship which served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal's fall from power in 1529. Cromwell's time in office... -
The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots by Mickey Mayhew
RRP: £12.99£9.87Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads like a particularly spicy novel, with murder, kidnap, adultery, assassination and execution. To some she is one of the most wronged women... -
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: £15.99£11.79Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Forgotten until... -
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
RRP: £17.99£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780812966008Author Edmund MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 792Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini's world of science, history, and court intrigue by J.L. Heilbron
RRP: £22.99£16.68Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early modern Europe. Born in a time where entry into the church granted power, privilege, and access to the... -
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records by Keith Dockray 9781781554692
RRP: £16.99£13.13Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a... -
Marie-Antoinette by Helene Delalex 9781606064832
RRP: £45.00£39.52An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous- and infamous-queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a... -
Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: £9.99£7.77Before 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... -
Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £10.99£7.99In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of... -
Hotspur: Henry Percy: Medieval Rebel by Andrew Boardman
RRP: £14.99£11.55'This book should be in your hands!' - Medieval History Magazine'A detailed and readable account of Hotspur's life that conveys a sense of the endemic violence of the Border Marches.' - Northern History'Boardman has studied the battlefields of Otterburn,... -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691197098
RRP: £15.99£13.11The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world-a genius who ranks as one of the world's... -
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
£21.09The dramatic story of Rome's first emperor, who plunged into Rome's violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire Caesar Augustus' story, one of the most riveting... -
Last Man Standing: The Memoirs, Letters and Photographs of a Teenage Officer by Richard Van Emden 9781848848658
£17.35It hardly seems credible today that a nineteenyear- old boy, just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Or that, as the machine gun bullets whistled past and shells exploded,... -
The Next Moon by Andre Hue 9780141042800 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.09Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to... -
The Next Moon by Andre Hue 9780141042800
RRP: £15.99£11.61Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to... -
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith 9781787381421
RRP: £30.00£27.15Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from... -
Cicero: A Political Biography by David Stockton 9780198720331
£46.40Cicero: A Political BiographyBook InformationISBN 9780198720331Author David StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 22mm -
My Life by Leon Trotsky 9780486456096
RRP: £20.99£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486456096Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man Anthony Sattin 9781848549111
RRP: £10.99£7.61T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet this was not...