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The Blessing of Maharishi: The Wonderful Story of My Life by Lothar Pirc 9781421836805
€28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421836805Author Lothar PircFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint 1st World PublishingPublisher 1st World PublishingWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Cicero: Letters to Friends: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83The 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 ... -
A Gentleman's Daughter: The Life of Harriet Mary Dowling (Nee Blaxland) in India and Australia in Colonial Times by Alison Ferguson 9780987622709
RRP: €28.77€22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987622709Author Alison FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Backstory PressPublisher Backstory PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
When They Came for Me: Fifty-five Days an Apartheid Prisoner by John R. Schlapobersky 9781789209082
RRP: €28.50€23.19In 1969, whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained, and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle... -
Bahawalpur: The Kingdom that Vanished by Anabel Loyd
RRP: €32.12€16.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093779Author Anabel LoydFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Miss Palmer's Diary by Gillian Wagner
€59.38In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, rich and accomplished and about to experience the world of dances, opera visits and dinner parties which... -
The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, a Life by David Lawday
RRP: €17.84€15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145413Author David LawdayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Ocean Devil: The life and legend of George Hogg by James MacManus 9780007270750 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.28The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety... -
Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life by Kathryn Tidrick 9781781681015
€30.76Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline. The Gandhi... -
Captivated: J. M. Barrie, Daphne Du Maurier and the Dark Side of Neverland by Piers Dudgeon 9780099520450 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.50J. M. Barrie has long been a controversial figure; as D. H. Lawrence observed in 1921, 'Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die'. The five nervous breakdowns, two suicides, one attempted suicide and numerous deaths that are associated with... -
Captivated: J. M. Barrie, Daphne Du Maurier and the Dark Side of Neverland by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: €4.75€3.46J. M. Barrie has long been a controversial figure; as D. H. Lawrence observed in 1921, 'Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die'. The five nervous breakdowns, two suicides, one attempted suicide and numerous deaths that are associated with... -
James Madison: A Biography by Ralph L. Ketcham 9780813912653
€38.19The best one volume biography of Madison's life, Ketcham's biography not only traces Madison's career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers... -
Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6 by Christine Kelly
RRP: €24.98€24.84Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Fanny Duberly, then aged 25, accompanied her husband to the Crimea in 1854, and remained there until the end of the fighting, the only officer's wife to... -
Lord Seaforth: Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor by Finlay McKichan
RRP: €21.41€19.81This is the first full-length study of Seaforth. Drawing on an extensive archival research in Scotland, England and Barbados, Finlay McKichan links important themes in Scottish and imperial history to show how far the principles and policies developed... -
A Single Tear: A Family's Persecution, Love & Endurance in - Communist China by Wu/Nigkun 9780316956390
RRP: €26.17€19.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316956390Author Wu/NigkunFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376578Author Ji XianlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
St George: A Saint for All by Samantha Riches
RRP: €23.80€17.01The image of St George - the mounted, medieval knight slaying a dragon - seems so familiar to us all that it is tempting to assume this figure is easily understood. He is, in fact, one of the most significant and complex mythic figures in Christian... -
Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg 9781781680780 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.15"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have... -
Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
RRP: €15.46€13.10"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have... -
Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House by Carolyn Morrow Long 9780813061832
RRP: €27.31€18.99The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her macabre tale is frequently retold, and her French Quarter mansion has been referred to as ""the most... -
Abraham Lincoln: pocket GIANTS by Adam I. P. Smith 9780752497754
RRP: €8.32€6.51The President who 'freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever,... -
The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed by Sandra Hempel
RRP: €11.89€8.09In the nineteenth century it was criminally easy to bump off unwanted relatives. A Household Thrown into Chaos Plumstead village, 2 November 1833. Wealthy landlord, George Bodle is taken violently ill. He dies within hours. When his wife, daughter and... -
Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington 9780190263560
RRP: €41.04€30.65Regarded as ancient Greece's greatest orator, Demosthenes lived through and helped shape one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under... -
The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom by Stefan W. Waydenfeld 9781607720034
RRP: €17.84€12.231.5 million Polish civilians - arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 - were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet... -
A Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler by Richard Hanser
RRP: €17.84€15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586175573Author Richard HanserFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 154mm... -
The Pope's Greatest Adversary: Girolamo Savonarola by Samantha Morris
RRP: €23.79€16.99On 24 May 1497 Girolamo Savonarola was led out to a scaffold in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria. Crowds gathered around and watched as he was publically humiliated before being hanged and burned. But what did this man do that warranted such a... -
The Greatest Spy: The True Story of the Secret Agent that Inspired James Bond 007 by John Harte
RRP: €21.41€17.70Audacious, brilliant, chameleon. All these words could be used to describe the man that became Britain's greatest spy, a man known by several names and who came from many places, depending on who was asking and when. Was he from Poland? Or was he the son... -
From Private to Field-Marshal: The Autobiography of the First British Private Soldier to Rise to the Highest Rank by William Robertson 9780857069207
€25.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069207Author William RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 599g -
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna 9780571374922
RRP: €15.46€10.19'Uproarious.' The Times'Terrifically entertaining.' Evening Standard'Irresistible.' Daily Mail'Gripping.' Sunday Telegraph'A scintillating gem: a cracking page-turner, historically illuminating, culturally fascinating, and a book which effortlessly... -
Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer by Antony Lentin 9781908323118
RRP: €17.84€12.85Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep 'tube lines' and 'King of the Underground', he was also a connoisseur... -
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
RRP: €23.80€16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476797717Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm... -
Cicero: Letters to Friends: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674995895
RRP: €29.69€27.83The 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 ... -
Man from the Alamo, The - Why the Welsh Chartist Uprising of 1839 Ended in a Massacre by John Humphries 9781903529140 [USED COPY]
RRP: €4.70€3.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903529140Author John HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Glyndwr PublishingPublisher Glyndwr Publishing -
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna Stratton 9780671447489
€16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671447489Author Joanna StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 462g -
German Fighter Ace Werner Molders:: An Illustrated Biography by Ernst Obermaier
RRP: €54.73€36.56This book is an illustrated biography of the legendary Luftwaffe fighter pilot Werner Moelders in more than 480 rare photographs, documents and commentaries. Who was this once much-admired and honored man? Why did the German people show such a great... -
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S Wood 9780143035282
RRP: €28.56€20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for George Washington Book Prize (History) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780143035282Author Gordon S. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher... -
Boone by Robert Morgan 9781565126152
RRP: €19.03€16.45The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more... -
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: €9.51€8.35Austrian 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... -
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld by Beate Klarsfeld 9780374538170
€19.65They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard when his father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. They met on the Paris... -
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante 9780060750565
RRP: €22.60€19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060750565Author Eve LaplanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc