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Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £18.99£16.43The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail... -
Robert Kennedy by THOMAS EVAN 9780743203296
RRP: £20.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743203296Author THOMAS EVANPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: £25.00£18.30As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Essex Boys by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.84Warrior, 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... -
Aethelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled King by Ann Williams 9781852853822
RRP: £65.00£27.43Aethelred became king of England in 978, following the murder of his half-brother Edward the Martyr (possibly at the instigation of their mother) at Corfe. On his own death in April 1016, his son Edmund Ironside succeeded him and fought the invading... -
Horatio Nelson: pocket GIANTS by Peter Warwick 9780750962667
RRP: £6.99£6.06Why is Nelson a hero? Because he was a captain before he was 21, a man who shaped the course of history from the decks of his ships, hailed as a saviour of the nation, a hero killed in action at the moment of his greatest victory at the Battle of... -
Bob Hope: A Life In Comedy by William Robert Faith 9780306812071
£23.84Reporter: "What's it like to be Bob Hope?"Hope: "I wouldn't have it any other way."From Bob Hope's early career as an upstart among professionals like Jack Benny and Milton Berle in the rollicking world of traveling comedians, to his... -
White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Conor Pope 9780571218417
RRP: £12.99£8.80A 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... -
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne 9780062310774
RRP: £14.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062310774Author Paula ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu
RRP: £16.99£13.28Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he... -
A Rebel's Guide To Marx by Mike Gonzalez
RRP: £4.00£3.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192083Author Mike GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 49g -
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny 9780394710358
£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394710358Author Gitta SerenyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant 9780393609196
RRP: £23.99£20.51During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot... -
Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World by Kathryn Shevelow 9780312425760
£18.05Charlotte Charke's father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth-century's great actor/playwrights - the toast of the British aristocracy, a favourite of the king. When his high spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for... -
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk
RRP: £17.00£16.68In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £14.99£11.64Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an... -
The Forgotten Giant of Bletchley Park Harold Liberty 9781399089616
RRP: £20.00£14.51In 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... -
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story by Gabriele Vom Bruck
RRP: £35.00£31.48Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored... -
Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.84Queen, 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,... -
The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
RRP: £9.99£7.32_______________ '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... -
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan Arthur Waley 9784805314623
RRP: £8.99£6.90Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon-a young courtesan of the Heian period-kept a diary, which provides a... -
Lost Splendor by Prince Felix Youssoupoff 9781885983664
RRP: £14.99£13.62Born to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a Grand Lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption... -
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Christine Weightman
RRP: £12.99£8.71The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'the menace of the Tudors'... -
The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia by T E Lawrence
RRP: £12.99£8.44Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though... -
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father George Goodwin 9781780227351
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned... -
Sir Alexander Ogston, 1844-1929: A Life at Medical and Military Frontlines by David A. Rennie 9781399501316
RRP: £85.00£77.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Farewell Shiraz: An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile by Cyrus Kadivar 9789774168260
RRP: £29.99£24.95In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled... -
The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa's Visionary Leader George M. Low by Richard Jurek 9781496229410
RRP: £23.99£18.88From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect... -
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick 9781501198946
RRP: £20.00£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198946Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Letters from the Few: Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain Dilip Sarkar 9781526775894
RRP: £25.00£18.30Fascinated 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... -
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: £18.99£12.08Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after... -
War Diary Ingeborg Bachmann 9780857425324
RRP: £7.99£7.23Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of... -
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans 9780593296424
RRP: £35.00£23.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296424Author Richard J EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 936g -
Miner's Day, with Rhondda images by Isabel Alexander by B. L. Coombes
RRP: £40.00£15.51Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.'Coombes and Alexander each had a passion to show the real life of ... -
Journey To The Abyss by Harry Kessler
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278432Author Harry KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 232mm *... -
The Last Lancer by Catherine Czerkawska
RRP: £12.99£8.83An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic... -
Machiavelli by Christopher Celenza 9780674416123
RRP: £35.95£29.19"Machiavellian"-used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless-is never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation... -
Among the Coal Dust Christine Jones 9781800747265
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800747265Author Christine JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Conversations with Isaac Newton: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Michael White 9781786783837
RRP: £9.99£7.00Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution... -
Marriage of Inconvenience Robert Brownell 9781843680963
RRP: £19.99£13.95"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,...