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Life and Early Travels Cyriac of Ancona 9780674599208
£31.30Cyriac of Ancona (1391-1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by his... -
Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg
RRP: £20.99£18.66On 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... -
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill
£23.98The #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... -
Savitribai Phule: Her Life, Her Relationships, Her Legacy by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta 9789356993495
£18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356993495Author Reeta Ramamurthy GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm... -
Bengal Lancer Francis Yeats-Brown 9781780602011
RRP: £14.99£10.05Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the memoir of a carefree young cavalry officer in the halcyon days of the British Empire. Francis Yeats-Brown... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war Evelyn Shillington 9780751567021
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE 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... -
Duncan Hallas: Indomitable Revolutionary: A Tribute by Duncan Hallas 9781914143724
RRP: £12.00£8.22Apologies 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 -
Fergie Confidential: The Duchess of York's True Story by Chris Hutchins 9780993445705
£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993445705Author Chris HutchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Neville Ness House LtdPublisher Neville Ness House Ltd -
A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ida Pruitt
RRP: £21.99£19.49Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt-a bicultural social worker,... -
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £16.99£12.28Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule,... -
Business Biographies and Memoirs - Titans of Industry: Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Cornelius Vanderbilt by J R MacGregor 9781950010370
RRP: £39.95£30.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010370Author J R MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 936Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 1347gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune by James Mellon 9780300167146
£66.53Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and he... -
Tramp to Queen by John Captain Treasure Jones 9780752446257
RRP: £27.50£20.60Born and raised on a small farm in Pembrokeshire, Wales, John Treasure Jones went to sea when he was fifteen. For the first four years he was indentured as an apprentice, surviving the oceans in a small tramp steamer. Slowly, however, he worked his way... -
The Private Life of Edward IV by John Ashdown-Hill 9781445671321
RRP: £9.99£6.84From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was repeatedly called into question. This alarmed Elizabeth Widville and led her into political killings. She was... -
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... -
The Woman Who Censored Churchill by Ruth Ive
RRP: £10.99£8.47During the Second World War, the only way Winston Churchill and his American counterpart Franklin D. Roosevelt could communicate was via a top secret transatlantic telephone link. All other Atlantic telephone cables had been disconnected to prevent the... -
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi 9780674987296
RRP: £27.95£24.49The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history.Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for... -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation David Horspool (History Editor) 9781472902993
RRP: £10.00£7.13Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III is one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Now, with the... -
Requiem Letters by Ronald Senator 9780714529998
RRP: £20.00£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529998Author Ronald SenatorFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Elizabeth I by David Loades 9781852853044
RRP: £80.00£78.97Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen. Yet the reality of her character and her personal attitudes are harder to detect behind the public... -
Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos 9780300222920
£45.38A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a... -
Heavy Time by Sonia Overall 9781908058836
RRP: £9.99£7.20In 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... -
Where Memory Leads: My Life by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420494Author Saul FriedlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong 9780140280210 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.00£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong 9780140280210
RRP: £24.00£17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Quest For Corvo by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: £17.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322615Author A.J.A. SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Millionaire by Janet Gleeson 9781501154973
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154973Author Janet GleesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Reign of Emperor Gallienus: The Apogee of Roman Cavalry by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526745217
RRP: £25.00£18.30This is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry Sidebottom's... -
Rosa Parks: A Life by Douglas G. Brinkley 9780143036005
RRP: £18.90£14.46Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama... -
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel 9781565843431
RRP: £24.99£17.37Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"The Good War" is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter's apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short 9781847923387
£16.94'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... -
Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian by Neil McKendrick 9781913087227
RRP: £34.95£33.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087227Author Neil McKendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co... -
Till the Sun Grows Cold: A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of her Daughter by Maggie McCune
RRP: £10.99£7.61Maggie 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,... -
When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Story of Genocide and Rwanda by David Belton
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit' WILLIAM BOYDInto the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president's plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: £20.00£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm -
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Barry Miles
RRP: £36.99£23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805052497Author Barry MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 33mm -
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 9780060175962
RRP: £23.00£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780060175962Author Simon WinchesterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint... -
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel 9781399813891
RRP: £16.99£13.18'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . ... -
Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust Ingrid Carlberg 9781848665965
RRP: £16.99£11.71An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own.A series of unlikely... -
Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats 9780684853383
£24.69Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the...