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Training her eye on traits that other biographers have neglected and mining newly released diaries and letters, Barbara Perry captures Rose Kennedy's genuine contributions to her family's political dynasty. Rose's perfectionism created a family image...

The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061133947Author Isabel VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution. Important new letters and photographs are also included.Book InformationISBN...

Love & War in London is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of wartime London. Vibrant and engaging, Olivia Cockett's diary reveals her frustrations, fears, pleasures and self-doubts. She recorded her mood swings and tried to understand them, and wrote of...

The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384574Author John F. RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692619902Author Jaak JurisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Kurni PressPublisher Kurni PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 15mm

This is the first scholarly biography of the king who is remembered by the English with more popular affection than almost any other. Covering his entire life, it takes in his colourful years as a prince and as an exiled monarch during the Civil War and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583673171Author Nancy StoutFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often...

From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly available in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911379119Author Philip HoyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Annie Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius-and the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's economy...

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Saint Cuthbert, the best-loved Northern saint, was born in the early seventh century and lived during an exciting and mysterious time in the history of Northumbria. During his life he had connections with many places - the Lammermuir Hills, Melrose,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720612226Author Sarah M. HallFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers

It has been said of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. He was a far-sighted scientific genius, fertile in theory and invention, and one of the foremost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250792495Author Mark DawidziakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair...

The story of the many suitors of Elizabeth I - one of the most eligible brides in 16th century Europe.From her childhood, overshadowed by the marital upheavals of her father Henry VIII, and the tragic first encounter with courtship, to the fantastical...

Biography of the most famous Prime Minister of the 20th CenturyBook InformationISBN 9781904950639Author Chris WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 25mm * 15mm * 2mm

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in...

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in...

Lucie 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,...

____________________________ 'The last surviving eyewitness to the Nazi power apparatus ... Her memories are remarkable given her age. Yet this book is also notable for what is not recalled ... These gaps result not from memory's decay, but from...

Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize Mary, Queen of Scots' marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell's first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the Queen's...

Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from 'arch-mediocrity' and establish him as the greatest political leader the country has ever seen. In the past, biographers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382277200Author Naresh FernandesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company

When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before. This time they were going to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171370Author Nina BerberovaFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Queen, temptress, martyr, witch: the Essex Girl has left her mark on history. For centuries, society allocated women a role of service and obedience; an invisible woman, circumscribed by home and family, was a righteous woman. The Essex Girl, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831747Author Joshua M. GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Winter owns most of the year at the South Pole, starting in mid-February and ending in early November. Total darkness lasts for months, temperatures can drop below -100 degrees Fahrenheit, and windchill can push temperatures to -140 degrees. At those...

Warrior, prince, lover and rogue: there is much to be said for the Essex man. Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler are all covered along with many more in this exciting exploration of Essex Boys. Pepys and Dickens captured Essex in words, while the...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416597605Author Alexandra PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America...