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The Real Benjamin Franklin: Part I: Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Philosopher, Patriot (a History of His Life)/Part II: Timeless Treasures from Benjamin Franklin (Selections from His Writings) by Andrew M Allison 9780880800013
RRP: £19.95£14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880800013Author Andrew M AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint National Center for Constitutional StudiesPublisher National Center for... -
The Leftovers of War by Roger Farrow 9781999585327
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999585327Author Roger FarrowFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Riverside Publishing Solutions LtdPublisher Riverside Publishing Solutions... -
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£30.09Apologies 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... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger 9781399806732
RRP: £16.99£12.64'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.'In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester... -
John Maclean: Red Clydesider by Dave Sherry 9781914143960
RRP: £6.00£4.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143960Author Dave SherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
Joseph Chamberlain: A Most Radical Imperialist by Travis L. Crosby
£22.01Joseph Chamberlain was a dynamic orator, notable reformer and superb parliamentary tactician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his early political career Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member and a supporter of political... -
Monuments Man: The Mission to Save Vermeers, Rembrandts, and Da Vincis from the Nazis' Grasp by James J. Rorimer
RRP: £32.50£32.10James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, an elite group imbedded in the US Army, who risked their lives during World War II to save Europe s greatest... -
Ship, The Lady and the Lake by Meriel Larken 9781903071427
RRP: £20.00£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071427Author Larken MerielFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace by David B. Woolner
RRP: £30.00£28.10A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, a period of political action without equal in... -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade
RRP: £12.99£8.60Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King... -
RATS: The story of a dog soldier by Max Halstock 9781908291950
£7.07RATS is the story of a very special dog - a dog soldier - and those who lived and served with him in Northern Ireland. Wounded on a number of occasions, awarded two medals for gallantry, his fame spread and when he retired with a special army full-dress... -
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... -
Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger by Charles W. J. Withers
RRP: £30.00£19.70One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial... -
Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil 9780099498285
RRP: £17.99£12.95Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands... -
Australia According to Hoges by Paul Hogan
RRP: £12.99£8.48Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 by Jessica L. Malay 9781526117885
RRP: £25.00£22.03This edition of Anne Clifford's (1590-1676) diaries and memoirs is the first to include all of her autobiographical writing. Clifford was a prominent noble woman who writes about her experiences in the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She tells... -
Millionaire by Janet Gleeson 9781501154973
RRP: £19.99£13.98Apologies 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 Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 9780060175962
RRP: £23.00£14.78Apologies 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... -
The Kings & Queens of England: The Biography by David Loades 9781445620831
RRP: £14.99£10.10This is the history of the men and women who have occupied the highest position in English, and later British society. For about a thousand years they were superior lords, the leaders of a nobility which ruled; and for about three hundred years... -
Letters from the Few: Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526775894
RRP: £25.00£18.02Fascinated by the Battle of Britain from an early age, as a young man Dilip Sarkar realised that recording and sharing the Few's memories was of paramount importance. At the time, back in the mid-1980s, membership of the Battle of Britain Fighter... -
Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy by Charles a Coulombe 9781505113280
RRP: £27.95£18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505113280Author Charles a CoulombeFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: £20.00£13.30Apologies 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 -
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die by Tom Gallagher 9781787383883
£37.48Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others... -
Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging by Linda Dittmar 9781623717506
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717506Author Linda DittmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan by Amber Smith 9781501116391
RRP: £17.99£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116391Author Amber SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Marriage of Inconvenience by Robert Brownell
RRP: £19.99£13.75"A page turner, even for those familiar with the subject...The surprising truth that emerges is no less human, and no less revealing about the Victorians than the myths; on the contrary it gives a far more compelling insight into what relationships,... -
Letters from the Dust Bowl by Caroline Henderson 9780806135403
RRP: £18.95£13.18In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American ""understanding of some of our farm problems."" His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson's articles, which... -
Confessions Of A Yakuza by Jun'ichi Saga
RRP: £11.99£7.45This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham 9781400067664
RRP: £33.00£26.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781400067664Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House... -
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
£17.52Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be... -
Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe by Matthew Jenkinson
RRP: £26.49£18.89When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had... -
Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans: A Childhood in Singapore and Malaya by Derek Tait
RRP: £12.99£9.09Growing up as a child in Singapore and Malaya in the 1960s was an idyllic experience. Thousands of children of naval personnel will have the same fond memories of the time spent there, as Derek has. Who could forget the constant hot weather or the... -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant
RRP: £16.99£14.61As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this... -
The Green & White House: Ireland and the US Presidents by Lynne Kelleher
RRP: £17.99£12.95'Carefully researched and excellently written . . . a wonderful account of the special relationship between Ireland and the USA.' BERTIE AHERN'Anybody with an interest in Irish-American politics and personalities will want to read The Green and White... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9780375726262
RRP: £17.99£10.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize 2006. Short-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780375726262Author Kai... -
The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two by Sarah Baring 9781800550599
RRP: £8.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550599Author Sarah BaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm -
The Man in the Iron Mask: The Truth about Europe's Most Famous Prisoner by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: £20.00£13.34The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic gaoler, dark and sinister dungeons - and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this story,... -
De Valera: Rise 1882–1932 by David McCullagh 9780717155866
RRP: £33.99£31.15From the host of RTE's Primetime and author of The Reluctant Taoiseach, the widely acclaimed biography of John A. Costello, Rise 1882-1932 is the first volume of a major two-part reassessment of the man who shaped modern Ireland. Eamon de Valera is...