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The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: £30.00£25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394543413Author Nancy DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Till the Sun Grows Cold: A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of her Daughter by Maggie McCune
RRP: £10.99£7.40Maggie McCune was born in India during the last vestiges of the British Raj. Her daughter, Emma, whose passion for Africa led her to aid work in Sudan where she fell in love with and married a guerrilla commander of the Sudan People's Liberation Army,... -
Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The Gripping Story That Inspired the Movie by Booton Herndon 9781629131559
RRP: £24.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629131559Author Booton HerndonFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Remnant PublicationsPublisher Remnant PublicationsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Speer: Hitler's Architect by Martin Kitchen 9780300226416 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£7.58A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities"Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany, comprehensively disassembles Speer's alibis... -
Speer: Hitler's Architect by Martin Kitchen
RRP: £18.99£16.18A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities"Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany, comprehensively disassembles Speer's alibis... -
Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: Volume 2 by Cora L. Scofield 9781781554760
RRP: £20.00£15.44Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In a turbulent world marred by civil war, Edward, 4th Duke of York-with good title to the throne-overthrew... -
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
RRP: £16.99£13.09The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent... -
Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff
£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762898Author Nicholas DawidoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)... -
Bill Tutte Codebreaker: and His Battle with Hitler's Secret Cipher by Tom Williams
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528911498Author Tom WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Forgotten Giant of Bletchley Park by Liberty, Harold 9781399089616
RRP: £20.00£14.29In recent years, the work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers has caught the public's imagination with books and films. While men such as Alan Turing and Dilly Knox have been recognised, Brigadier John Tiltman has been hardly mentioned. This overdue... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short 9781847923387
£16.70'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his... -
Yvonne, Child of the Somme by Sara Rowell
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481695Author Sara RowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Crossing Hitler: The man who put the Nazis on the witness stand by Benjamin Carter Hett 9780195369885
RRP: £32.99£23.26Crossing Hitler is a biography of the German trial lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), who dedicated his brief career to an uncompromising struggle against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and suffered accordingly in Hitler's concentration camps. Through the... -
Hitler's Father: Hidden Letters Why the Son Became a Dictator by Sandgruber, Roman 9781399019279
RRP: £25.00£17.62The bundle of 31 letters, the pages of which had long yellowed with age, had lain hidden in the attic where they were found for over a century. Only when the razor-sharp script was examined further did historians discover just who had written them - and... -
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield 9780195175394
RRP: £8.99£6.45No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the... -
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
RRP: £12.99£9.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671534Author Scholastique MukasongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691197098
RRP: £15.99£12.91The 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... -
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan 9780300101621
RRP: £18.99£18.48A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever... -
The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
RRP: £9.99£7.11_______________ 'Beguiling ... I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge' - New York Times 'A wonderful book ... Reading it is akin to kicking a can along the road... -
Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform by Norval Morris 9780195169126
RRP: £29.49£19.99In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed... -
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life in Parts by James Paget Carleton 9780815634799
£117.27In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace... -
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy 9780062278791
RRP: £22.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
RRP: £42.95£40.80Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African... -
Walter's War: A rediscovered memoir of the Great War 1914-18 by Walter D. E. Young
RRP: £10.99£7.77The voices of those who actually lived through the hell of blood and pain during the Great War have fallen silent. But every now and then a treasure is unearthed - a secret memoir. Walter's War is one such book. Written without his family's knowledge and... -
Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941 by Patricia O'Sullivan
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963981Author Patricia O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 416g -
A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis 9780786704866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£2.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786704866Author Helen LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers IncPublisher Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc -
A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis 9780786704866
£13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786704866Author Helen LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers IncPublisher Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc -
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
RRP: £25.00£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972634Author Jane RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The White Sniper: Simo HaYha by Tapio Saarelainen 9781612004297
RRP: £24.95£20.81Simo Hayha (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all... -
True West by Sam Shepard 9780573617287
£11.83Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of... -
Henry V: The Conscience of a King by Malcolm Vale
RRP: £12.99£11.46More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputation... -
The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power by Anna Keay 9781847252258
RRP: £65.00£64.97In the year that the English monarchy was abolished, the Prince of Wales's governor posed the poignant question: what was it that made kings different from their subjects? The answer to him was obvious, and the word that described it was 'ceremony'. From... -
Making A Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq by James Ashcroft 9780753512340 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.78In September 2003, James 'Ash' Ashcroft, a former British Infantry Captain, arrived in Iraq as a 'gun for hire'. It was the beginning of an 18-month journey into blood and chaos.In this action-packed page-turner, Ashcroft reveals the dangers of his... -
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming
RRP: £11.99£11.86For almost six decades, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has fascinated people worldwide. The subject of numerous books and thousands of articles, her life has probably been documented in millions of words. And yet, there has always remained something... -
Mithridates the Great: Rome's Indomitable Enemy by Philip Matyszak 9781473828902
RRP: £12.99£9.09A military biography of Mithridates VI 'the Great' of Pontus, Rome's most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a fascinating cast of pirates, rebels, turncoats and poisoners (though an... -
Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves by Richard Perceval Graves 9781805140566
RRP: £24.99£18.46When beautiful heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) left school at the age of 16, she was caught up in the world of Sixties London. Her first job was with Yoko Ono, and she soon fell in love with the owner of the fashionable hippy boutique 'Granny Takes a... -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99£9.16The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the... -
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
RRP: £15.99£11.61Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - such as the 'Invisible Hand' of the market - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself... -
Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister by Marilyn B. Skinner 9780195375015
RRP: £43.49£28.87Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul... -
The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £21.95£19.25The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697-1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied...