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Young Titan: The Making Of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden 9781471113239 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his nation. But the well-known story of the elder statesman has overshadowed an earlier part of... -
Anastasia: The Life of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth 9780712662673 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29On 17 February 1920 a young woman was rescued from a Berlin canal and taken to a local asylum. Her body bore the scars of bullet and bayonet wounds. For a long time she refused to give her name, and was known as Fraulein Unbekannt (Miss Unknown). When... -
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd 9780099548942 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.15A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light; Alice Keppel... -
The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle by Charles Williams 9780471117117
£37.57...the best English biography of de Gaulle."--The New York Times Book Review "...a splendid popular biography...recounted with verve and anecdotal warmth."--Publishers Weekly Now in paper! This meticulously researched biography gives insight into the... -
The Other Mitford: Pamela's Story by Diana Alexander
RRP: £9.99£7.55Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass 9781613822913
RRP: £7.00£6.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613822913Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars by Jim Sillars
RRP: £14.99£14.71Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a... -
Mrs. Simcoe's Diary by Elizabeth Simcoe 9781550027686
£15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550027686Author Mary Quayle InnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm -
The Life and African Exploration of David Livingstone by David Livingstone 9780815412083
£21.90During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lake Ngami on the map, and was the first white man to cross the African continent. Diaries, reports and... -
Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet 9781590170281
RRP: £23.00£16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm)... -
Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace by Conor Lenihan
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374050Author Conor LenihanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein 9780300198324
RRP: £12.99£11.46A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine,... -
Roman Emperor Zeno: The Perils of Power Politics in Fifth-century Constantinople by Peter Crawford 9781473859241
RRP: £25.00£17.62Peter Crawford examines the life and career of the fifth-century Roman emperor Zeno and the various problems he faced before and during his seventeen-year rule. Despite its length, his reign has hitherto been somewhat overlooked as being just a part of... -
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Croke
RRP: £20.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981650Author Vicki CrokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Roman Emperors: A Guide to the Men Who Ruled the Empire by Mario Bartolini
RRP: £20.00£14.29Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire. It covers the period from the establishment of the Empire by Augustus in 27 BCE to the abdication of Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, an event that marks the official... -
The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann 9780300173802 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.99The Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, lover of Queensberry's... -
From the Battlefield to the Stage: The Many Lives of General John Burgoyne by Norman S. Poser
RRP: £27.99£24.14Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga, New York, in 1777, General John Burgoyne was one of the most interesting - and extraordinary - figures of the eighteenth century.In From the Battlefield to the Stage Norman Poser... -
Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs 9781848326675 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£2.65In this highly readable but completely unconventional book Asa Briggs, writer, lecturer and professor, wellknown on both sides of the Atlantic, goes back in time to his own hometown, Keighley in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, now incorporated in... -
The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith 9780471078647
£13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471078647Author Martin GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 430g -
Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge
RRP: £19.99£15.02Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political... -
Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice by Efraim Zuroff 9780230108059
RRP: £11.99£9.70Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, Efraim Zuroff spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or death spare them from potential punishment. Zuroff's project yielded the... -
Mary Queen of Scots by Retha M. Warnicke 9780415291835
RRP: £37.99£33.38"Scholars now have Warnicke to use as their chief one volume study of Mary"Julian Goodare, University of EdinburghIn this biography of one of the most intriguing figures of early modern European history, Retha Warnicke, widely regarded as a leading... -
The Compassionate Warrior: Abd el-Kader of Algeria by Elsa Marston 9781937786106
RRP: £12.99£8.63A brilliant military strategist, superb horseman, statesman, philosopher, Muslim hero ...Emir Abdel Kader (1808-1883) was an international celebrity in his own time, known for his generosity and kindness even towards enemies. Today he is recognized as... -
Napoleon's Doctor: The St Helena Diary of Barry O'Meara by Hubert O'Connor 9781847178916
RRP: £14.99£11.66A fascinating glimpse into the mind of Napoleon in exile - his opinions on love and war, his reflections on the most important events of his life - by one of his closest confidantes In 1815, the young Dublin doctor Barry O'Meara accepted the... -
Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World by Mark Elliott
RRP: £44.44£39.92This new entry in the Longman Library of World Biography series offers an intimate and provocative account of the Manchu emperor Qianlong (1711-1799), one of the world's great empire-builders, who helped build the foundation of the modern Chinese nation... -
Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection by Natalya Semenova 9780300267037
RRP: £11.99£10.15The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world's greatest collections of modern art"A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly,... -
Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss by Rosemarie Terenzio
RRP: £18.99£12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439187685Author Rosemarie TerenzioFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Diary Of Bergen-belsen: 1944-1945 by Hanna Levy-Hass
RRP: £16.99£9.84The Diary of Bergen-Belsen is a unique, deeply political survivor's diary from the final year inside the notorious concentration camp. Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the... -
Autobiography by Margaret Mary,Saint 9780895552952
RRP: £10.99£10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895552952Author Margaret Mary,SaintFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Arafat and the Dream of Palestine: An Insider's Account by Bassam Abu-Sharif 9780230608016
£22.16Bassam Abu Sharif was one of the most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the sixties and seventies, acting as "minister of propaganda" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists (including Carlos the... -
A Clear Case of Genius: Room 40's Code-breaking Pioneer by Reginald Hall 9780750982658
RRP: £20.00£15.04In 1933 the Admiralty banned 'Blinker' Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence - the... -
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman
RRP: £14.99£12.95Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years. In this new, definitive biography, Sven-Eric Liebman makes his work live once more for a new generation. Despite 200 years having passed since his birth, his burning... -
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Camilla Townsend
£29.58Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. 'Malintzin', at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her dona Marina, and she has... -
Great Soul: Mahatma Ghandi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld 9780307389954
RRP: £15.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389954Author Joseph LelyveldFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy by Michael Knox Beran 9781643137063
RRP: £29.95£18.94An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind.From politics... -
Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood by Andrew Borowiec 9780241964033 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland'The best-ever account of what is was like to be young and fighting in the Warsaw Rising' Neal Ascherson, Sunday Herald, Books of the YearPoland suffered... -
England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution by Allan Chapman 9780367393557
RRP: £61.99£53.61All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed... -
Brown Boy: A Memoir by Omer Aziz
RRP: £16.99£11.08Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In the early 2000s, Toronto, Omer Aziz's working-class neighbourhood is miles away from the wealthy white... -
Nero by Edward Champlin 9780674018228
RRP: £29.95£29.90The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable... -
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Francoise Frenkel
RRP: £17.00£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199851Author Francoise FrenkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...