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In 1994, ethnic conflict turned to genocide in Rwanda. When the world finally took notice, a million people lay dead, and the small African country lay in ruins. Rwanda returned from the brink guided by rulers determined to rebuild the country on their...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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

A vibrant celebration of President Obama, this stunning commemorative book provides a valuable record of his historical presidency and the years since he left office. It has now been more than two years since he concluded his historic two-term presidency...

During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit...

The Norton edition of Ulrich Wilcken's distinguished biography has made available for almost three decades a classic study enhanced with a modern scholars notes, bibliography, and introduction to Alexander studies. Alexander the Great as an...

Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life, chronicling his university studies, which led to two PhDs; his wartime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389374Author Michael NeufeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm) 232mm...

In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and...

On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fifty...

The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw ...

1501: the turbulence of Henry VIII's reign brings passion and pain to the Morlands as they achieve ever greater wealth and prestige. Paul, great-grandsom of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But...

In September 1940 a beautiful young woman arrived by seaplane and rubber dinghy on the shores of Scotland accompanied by two men - one of Germany's many attempt to penetrate British defences and infiltrate spies into the UK. This seems to be one of the...

From humble beginnings as the daughter of a Clerkenwell milliner, Emily Soldene rose to become a leading lady of the London stage and a formidable impresario with her own opera company. The darling of London's theatreland, she later reinvented herself as...

The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312564964Author Linda PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423641230Author William B. MatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Two sisters. A broken childhood. A heartbreaking journey.The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable ... In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds...

In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944383087Author William FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint High Lonesome BooksPublisher High Lonesome BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

Born into the famous, sometimes scandalous, theatrical clan of Colley Cibber, Charlotte was an actress destined for greatness. But she rebelled, and started dressing as a man. When her father disowned her, her life became an adventure extending from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987842503Author Harry Leslie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Barley Hole LLCPublisher Barley Hole LLCWeight(grams) 307g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909026568Author Christian HogsbjergFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RedwordsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 142g

Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle that was going on in the...

'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An...

Thomas Howard became the third duke of Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII and was intimately involved in many of the most controversial episodes of that era. By some accounts, Norfolk became known as the greatest soldier and aristocrat alive under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809062393Author Steven HackelFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295g

In this gripping memoir, originally published in 1957, the Dutch author, codename 'Zip', recounts her extraordinary journey. A young fighter for the resistance during World War II, Zip is captured and held prisoner as part of the 'Night and Fog' unit,...

Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother and the mother of Randolph Churchill, the 7th Duchess of Marlborough, has been a slight figure in many other people's biographies yet her own story as a member of a remarkable family has never been fully told,...

Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother and the mother of Randolph Churchill, the 7th Duchess of Marlborough, has been a slight figure in many other people's biographies yet her own story as a member of a remarkable family has never been fully told,...

From the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like American myth than history: With only three months of formal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909771116Author Jonathan ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Albert Bridge BooksPublisher Albert Bridge BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885123Author Antony HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 62g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780385495400Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams)...

Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Readers Choice Awards contest by TCK Publishing! 2018 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9789492371287Author Tammy BottnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761280Author Caleb CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen has been so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after her execution in May 1536 - on trumped-up charges of adultery - the portrait that has come down to us is the one drawn by her enemies...

In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man...