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Ada Lovelace: The World's First Computer Programmer by Beverley Adams
RRP: £20.00£14.29The name Ada Lovelace perhaps is not a name that you would automatically link to computer science but she was in fact the first person to create a computer algorithm. Working with the renowned scientist Charles Babbage, Lovelace translated a set of notes... -
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas 9780743258043
RRP: £20.00£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743258043Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 156mm... -
Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak 9780300097429
RRP: £15.99£13.82Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful pediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many... -
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry 9780143126287
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126287Author Douglas PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 342g -
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero by John Matusiak
RRP: £12.99£9.62This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the 'old monster' and his reign. The 'monster' displayed here is, at the very least, a newer type, more beset by anxieties and insecurities, and more tightly surrounded by those... -
Vincent Van Gogh: A Life by Philip Callow 9781566631341
£15.02Published on the hundredth anniversary of Van Gogh's death, this is the first full-length biography of this undying man in twenty years and surely the most comprehensive account to date. Mr. Callow treats more searchingly than any previous work the... -
Sulla: The Last Republican by Arthur Keaveney 9780415336611
RRP: £38.99£34.22In this second edition of Arthur Keaveney's classic biography, a fresh generation of students, scholars and readers are introduced to one of the most pivotal figures in the outgoing Roman Empire.A definitive book in its field, this second edition is a... -
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan
£14.10A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New... -
Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd El-Kader by John W Kiser 9780982324660
RRP: £17.99£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982324660Author John W KiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S C Gwynne
RRP: £22.99£12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451673296Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel Iduma
RRP: £16.99£11.47'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An... -
Lord Salisbury by Eric Midwinter 9781904950547
RRP: £9.99£7.06This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9781904950547Author Eric MidwinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother by Anne Sebba
RRP: £14.99£9.80Jennie 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... -
Flora Tristan: Feminism in the Age of George Sand: Feminist Classics by Sandra Dijkstra
£17.13Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union", an account of the conditions of women and workers in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France. Regarded as something of a pariah, she was one of the first... -
The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris 9780195147094
RRP: £20.99£14.29On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see-the noble young men with legs and arms taken off-the deaths-the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so... -
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
RRP: £20.00£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970586Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Offa and the Mercian Wars by Chris Peers 9781526711502
RRP: £14.99£10.95In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the... -
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill
£23.30The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and... -
Alice's Daughter: Lost Mission Child by Jackie Ferro 9781925302936
RRP: £23.99£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302936Author Ms Jacki FerroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Martin Bormann: Hitler's Executioner by Volker Koop 9781473886926
RRP: £25.00£17.62Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler... -
Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends by Richard Steyn
RRP: £10.99£7.40Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very... -
Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher 9780140258547 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the GreatWar as a... -
Edward Warren: Mountain Man Eyewitness Accounts by William Drummond Stewart 9780692439197
RRP: £23.19£21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692439197Author William Drummond StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 698Imprint Wordworx PublishingPublisher Wordworx PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Neville Chamberlain by Graham Macklin 9781904950622
£8.99With the agreement at Munich in 1938 he effectively abandoned Czechoslovakia, but immediately accelerated Britain's rearmament programme and the following year declared that Britain would defend Poland. This commitment led, in September 1939, to the... -
Queen Anne (Revised) by Edward Gregg 9780300090246
£45.38The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and... -
The Sister Queens: Isabella & Catherine de Valois by Mary McGrigor 9780750964203
RRP: £18.99£14.72Isabella de Valois was 3 years old when, on a hot August day in 1392, her father suddenly went mad. Less than four years later, she was married by proxy to the English King Richard II and arrived in England with a French retinue and her doll's house... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: £12.99£3.51Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry 9780199276554
RRP: £67.00£55.80Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By 1922 he was chief of staff of the IRA, a member of the... -
The Tribe: The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in US Politics by Caitríona Perry 9780717184828
RRP: £23.99£16.94In The Tribe, Caitriona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were once considered kingmakers in local and national elections, but generations of assimilation and rising... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667
RRP: £18.99£9.09The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a... -
Krishnamacharya by A.G. Mohan 9781590308004
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308004Author A. G. MohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership by Quintin Barry 9781910294413
RRP: £35.00£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294413Author Quintin BarryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers by Catherine Carswell
RRP: £10.00£6.71As a fine novelist, critic and biographer Catherine Carswell led a passionate and various life, full of intellectual commitment and a wide range of social interests. She worked on this original, modest and yet richly remarkable autobiography over a... -
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind by James Parris
RRP: £20.00£15.04In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling under German occupation and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. Based on the widely-held belief that... -
Welsh in the Old West: Illustrated by Lorin Morgan-Richards 9780983002093
RRP: £21.00£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983002093Author Lorin Morgan-RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Raven Above PressPublisher Raven Above PressWeight(grams) 122g -
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by David Hayton
RRP: £30.00£21.71Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill... -
The Brunels: Father and Son by Burton, Anthony 9781526786999
RRP: £25.00£17.62Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son's... -
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume III: The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898 by Otto Pflanze 9780691602646
RRP: £70.00£54.70The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash of 1873, which opened a period of economic depression. Volume III describes the continuation of Bismarck's... -
Matthew Boulton: Selling What All the World Desires by Shena Mason 9780300143584
RRP: £42.50£37.21Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied achievements...