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An 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909813595Author Malcolm CowperFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Bannister Publications LtdPublisher Bannister Publications Ltd

For much of his half-century career in the House of Commons, Tony Benn has been the most loved and loathed man in British politics. He has been idolized by the left, and reviled with equal measure by the Westminster establishment , not least by New...

For much of his half-century career in the House of Commons, Tony Benn has been the most loved and loathed man in British politics. He has been idolized by the left, and reviled with equal measure by the Westminster establishment , not least by New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987969200Author Charles BazalgetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Tara BooksPublisher Tara BooksWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, except perhaps Robert's friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for...

Five 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...

This biography of Helen Keller tells the story of the controversial and turbulent relationship between Helen and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. It chronicles Helens doomed love affair, her struggles to earn a living, her triumphs at Radcliffe College and...

In 1758 Peter Williamson appeared on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a Native American and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613163795Author Max Allan CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 725gDimensions(mm)...

Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-enters their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin,...

In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408470Author David Blake KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

In "The Riddle of the Sands", a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic...

Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born in a Jewish middle-class family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394738628Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

Rick Turner was one of South Africa's most original and powerful thinkers and is remembered today as a remarkable teacher and activist. For almost ten years, from 1968, when he returned to South Africa from his studies at the Sorbonne, to 1978, when he...

One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its...

Starting in a hollowed log of wood-some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of...

Nigel Hamilton brings all the magisterial authority he brought to his Whitbread-winning biography of Monty, and all the talent for tracking down and verifying hidden, controversial material that he showed in JFK: Reckless Youth, which topped the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993409509Author Sophena ChisembeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Sylsop BooksPublisher Sylsop Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866229Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

'A marvellous romp' The Times'The clash of blades, the whizzing bullets and galloping hooves guarantee nonstop adventure' Literary ReviewIn May 1671, Colonel Blood became the only person ever to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. How did he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568383439Author Robert ThomsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information &...

On 16 October 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's wartime Foreign Minister, was executed at Nuremberg, convicted on four counts including deliberately planning a war of aggression and war crimes. In this first English Language edition of his memoirs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614369Author Ruth KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Feminist PressPublisher Feminist PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm *...

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era. He...

With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson focuses on each monarch's entire life - from the puny, socially awkward Charles I, to the choleric, violent William the Conqueror, to the...

First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authoritative texts lending support to the abolitionist...

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had derided his judgement, denied his claims to greatness, and excluded him from...

Geoffrey of Monmouth, a twelfth-century cleric, was the first person to compose a detailed and continuous history of Britain from its origins to the domination of the Anglo-Saxons. His writings were enormously popular throughout the western European...

Fanny Cornforth was a Victorian supermodel whose face epitomised the vision and life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In their twenty-five years together, she played many parts from muse, medium and lover to housekeeper and nurse. Due...

For centuries, human history has been shaped by politics, power, and war - but what about love?Mark Antony's love for Cleopatra led to war between Rome and Egypt; Emperor Xuanzang of Tang relinquished the Mandate of Heaven for Yang Guifei; and the...

France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle - yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at...

The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph-triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the...

Covers a year of Pavel Weiner's life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terezin from April 1944 until liberation in April 1945. A Boy in Terezin registers the young boy's insights, hopes, and fears and recounts a passage into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786884513Author Richard ZacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 371g

Helmut and Charlotte Jacobitz were born in Berlin during the mid-1920s. They experienced depression and inflation, and witnessed violence as fascists and communists vied for control of Germany. When the Nazis prevailed, they survived the 12 years of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071328Author Val ffrench BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd