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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve 9780008406394 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.65'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our... -
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve
RRP: £8.99£6.22'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our... -
The Widow Spy by Martha D Peterson 9780983878124
RRP: £12.09£8.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983878124Author Martha D PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Red Canary PressPublisher Red Canary PressWeight(grams) 390g -
Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place by Martin Doyle 9781785374609
RRP: £21.99£18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374609Author Martin DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
RRP: £19.99£14.68This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £2.99£2.47HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century,... -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes
RRP: £16.99£11.47Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £10.99£7.99Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: £14.99£10.95The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly,... -
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
RRP: £16.99£12.28A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers,... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.From Elizabeth's intriguing,... -
More than a Grain of Truth: The official true story behind the film Mr. Jones, starring James Norton by Margaret Siriol Colley 9781839014765
RRP: £16.99£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839014765Author Margaret Siriol ColleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Wolf Hall Companion Lauren Mackay 9781911358619
RRP: £14.99£9.50An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirror and the Light. Wolf Hall Companion gives an historian's view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one... -
An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum [1941-43] by Etty Hillesum 9780953478057
RRP: £17.00£15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478057Author Etty HillesumFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal by Kim Donovan 9781399615389
RRP: £9.99£7.00'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore'Drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam ChristerA true Victorian murder mystery...Great Yarmouth, September 1900: A young woman is found dead on the beach, a... -
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
£11.94The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the... -
Boris Johnson: Portrait of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson
RRP: £25.00£16.24'Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris... -
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
RRP: £9.99£6.7228 January 1457. England is in the grip of the Wars of the Roses. Inside the walls of Pembroke Castle a thirteen-year-old girl gives birth to a boy. The ordeal nearly kills them both, forging a powerful bond that will see mother and son work together to... -
No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb 9781837700219
RRP: £9.99£7.00The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb is the only surviving codebreaker to have worked on both Nazi and Japanese codes at Bletchley... -
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow 9781400077304
RRP: £18.99£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077304Author Ron ChernowFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1009gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Autobiography Of A Geisha by Sayo Masuda 9780099462040
RRP: £15.99£11.61Sayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas.At the age of sis Masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of twelve,... -
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon 9780008531775
RRP: £10.99£7.33Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar 9780241977255 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: £10.99£7.99WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time... -
Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks
RRP: £14.99£10.06Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial... -
Finding Mangan: The many lives and afterlives of James Clarence Mangan Bridget Hourican 9780717194834
RRP: £21.99£15.61June 1849: Dr William Wilde, passing a wretched hovel in Dublin’s Liberties, discovers James Clarence Mangan in a state of indescribable misery and squalor. Aged just 46, the man dubbed ‘Ireland’s National Poet’ is about to succumb to the cholera... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861546176
RRP: £10.99£7.60How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
AEthelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
RRP: £18.99£16.18"AEthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way that... -
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
RRP: £34.49£25.54As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany. Perhaps more than any other... -
King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
RRP: £14.99£10.96Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War... -
To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer
RRP: £9.99£6.84How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles,... -
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.34These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: £12.99£11.46A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir 9780099540175 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£9.78A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
RRP: £11.99£8.58Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he restored democracy on his return to France in 1944, bringing... -
An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.99Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: £12.99£11.96Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and... -
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson
RRP: £9.99£7.32When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her... -
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 by David Kipen 9780812984439
RRP: £15.99£14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984439Author David KipenFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc