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The Man Who Stayed Behind by Sidney Rittenberg
RRP: £25.99£22.89The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence... -
I Sank The Bismarck by John Moffat 9780552159487 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29In the early hours of the 27th of May, 1941, the German warship Bismarck - scourge of the Atlantic ocean - was sailing towards a fateful encounter. Two days previously, Prime Minister Winston Churchill had issued the order to "Sink the Bismarck". High... -
Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah by Souad M. Al-Sabah 9781780764337
£66.79Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait. But the man who actually led Kuwait to modernity was his son Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, one of the most significant figures of Kuwait from the 1940s to Kuwaiti independence in 1961. Largely... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780241014806
£14.98Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed and enjoyable. This book conveys Edward's distinct... -
Streets of Sin: A Dark Biography of Notting Hill by Fiona Rule 9780750962384
RRP: £17.99£14.04Notting Hill was not always an upmarket residential enclave and celebrity hotspot. Streets of Sin delves into the district's murky past and relates the deplorable scandals and shocking crimes that blighted the area from its development until the late... -
Interrogator: The Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe by Raymond F. Toliver
RRP: £31.99£22.14The story of Hanns Scharff, the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War II. Scharff, a German Intelligence Officer, gained the reputation as the man who... -
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds by Joel L. Kraemer 9780385512008
RRP: £18.31£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385512008Author Joel L. KraemerFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 747g -
Admiral Sir Henry Morgan: The Greatest Buccaneer of Them All by Terry Breverton 9781903529171 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.95£4.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903529171Author Terry BrevertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Glyndwr PublishingPublisher Glyndwr Publishing -
Harthacnut: The Last Danish King of England by Ian Howard 9780752446745
RRP: £17.99£13.64Harthacnut was the last of three Danish kings to rule in England between 1013 and 1042. Although he was king of Denmark for many years, Harthacnut only ruled England directly for the last two years of his life. Yet he shaped the course of English history... -
Sir William Stanier: A New Biography by John E. Chackesfield 9780853615767
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615767Author John E. ChackesfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising by Shane Hegarty
RRP: £17.99£13.35This heavily illustrated book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th... -
Heavy Time by Sonia Overall 9781908058836
RRP: £9.99£6.99In Heavy Time psychogeographer Sonia Overall takes to the old pilgrim roads, navigating a route from Canterbury to Walsingham via London and her home town of Ely. Vivid in her evocation of a landscape of ancient chapels, ruined farms and suburban... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £18.99£13.61Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to... -
Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius by Bob Blaisdell
RRP: £22.00£14.45A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an astonishing rate, and was still a practicing physician. ... -
Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
RRP: £18.99£12.71Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Long after his presidency of South Africa,... -
Paved with Gold: The Life and Times of the Real Dick Whittington by Gregory Holyoake
RRP: £25.00£16.83Richard Whittington, known to many as Dick Whittington, was the hero of modern pantomime. Born to a disgraced knight in Gloucester, he travelled to London seeking his fame and fortune. Whittington lived through five reigns - Edward III, Richard, II,... -
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
RRP: £40.00£27.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316332200Author Peter GuralnickFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 965g -
From Private to Field-Marshal: The Autobiography of the First British Private Soldier to Rise to the Highest Rank by William Robertson 9780857069214
£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069214Author William RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 467g -
Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards 9781442236554
£15.29The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history. From a family of impoverished nobility, she was chosen by Queen Victoria as the bride for her eldest grandson, the scandalous Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne, who... -
Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life by John Lynch 9780300126044
RRP: £14.99£13.43Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles, and great victories became embedded in Spanish... -
Journey To The Abyss by Harry Kessler
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278432Author Harry KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 232mm *... -
Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis by Dennis J. Turner
RRP: £8.99£6.20Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis Based on letters and documents - not seen for seventy years - written by the Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur during the Nazi occupation of Belgium,... -
Kathleen: The Life of Kathleen Ferrier 1912-1953 by Maurice Leonard 9781845886288
RRP: £15.99£12.25Kathleen Ferrier has a reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the twentiety century. Her story, from her humble beginnings as a telephone operator in Blackburn to the height of international fame as one of the world's leading concert artists and... -
The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which... -
George III: America's Last King by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first full new study of George III in thirty years The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years' War with France, the American... -
Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falkland War by Richard Hutchings
RRP: £12.99£10.95As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author re-lives his part in operations, in particular Special Forces intelligence gathering and direct action... -
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec 9780195035001
RRP: £14.99£11.42This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving... -
The Interrupted Journey by John Fuller
RRP: £14.99£11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593468234Author John FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £9.99£7.29It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life... -
Henrietta Maria by Dominic Pearce
RRP: £11.99£7.86At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instructions... -
Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman by J. M. Taylor 9780226791449 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.50£6.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov 9781781855195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.65The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to build a life in Tsarist Russia. 'A fascinating tale' Anne Applebaum 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Spectator 'Extraordinary and gripping' Adam Hochschild ... -
Nigeria's Un-Civil War: Memories of a Biafran Child by Philip Effiong 9781399066013
RRP: £20.00£14.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prisoner of Japan: A Personal War Diary - Singapore, Siam & Burma 1941-1945 by Sir Harold Atcherley 9781909304536
RRP: £14.50£13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909304536Author Sir Harold AtcherleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Duncan Hallas: Indomitable Revolutionary: A Tribute by Duncan Hallas 9781914143724
RRP: £12.00£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143724Author Duncan HallasFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war by Evelyn Shillington
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
Peter the Great: A Biography by Lindsey Hughes 9780300103007
RRP: £14.99£13.03The definitive short biography of the enigmatic Peter the Great Peter the Great (1672-1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life-both... -
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: The Real Life Sherlock Holmes by Christopher Sandford
RRP: £14.99£11.55'Meticulously researched.' - Stewart Lamont, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre'Sandford's accomplished, well-crafted work brings Conan Doyle into sharp relief as a man of scrupulous fairness and great integrity.' - Library Journal'Adds a new dimension to our... -
Constantine the Emperor by David Potter
RRP: £18.49£13.28No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues... -
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Christine Weightman
RRP: £12.99£9.09The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'the menace of the Tudors'...