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An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: €13.08€9.25Gandhi'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... -
Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
RRP: €15.46€10.19Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: €15.46€11.44Filip 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: €11.89€8.46When 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... -
Peig by Peig Sayers 9780815602583
€21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602583Author Sayers.Format PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: €13.08€8.78The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O'Doherty 9780571315963
RRP: €15.46€10.27How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist - in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination - into the leader of Sinn Fein, with intimate access to the British and Irish prime ministers and the US president? And how did he outlast... -
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas
RRP: €23.80€18.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299397Author Chantal ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
RRP: €23.80€18.20The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.'Surely the final, the definitive, biography of Sylvia Plath' Ali Smith ... -
Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch 9781542042956
€13.82A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy. It's the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby... -
William Wilberforce: Take Up the Fight by Janet Benge 9781624860577
RRP: €14.27€11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624860577Author Janet BengeFormat PaperbackImprint Emerald BooksPublisher Emerald BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 18mm -
The Covent Garden Ladies: the book that inspired BBC2’s ‘Harlots’ by Hallie Rubenhold
RRP: €13.08€9.25***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE***'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho'... -
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg 9780199642427
RRP: €34.50€24.61This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a... -
Baudelaire: Critical study by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780811201896
RRP: €15.46€13.64Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. We may often disagree with his interpretations of the poet's personality, but we cannot fail to wonder at the mastery with which he presents his case. It is the... -
SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard: 3: Volume 3 R-W by Max Williams 9781781556382
RRP: €53.55€40.92Volume 3, officers with surnames R to W. In the turbulent times of the post-World War One era, new political parties emerged frequently in Germany, many with opposing extremist policies. The Communist movement grew out of the Socialist working classes... -
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn
RRP: €20.22€14.61Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader, protecting the Empire from... -
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster
RRP: €19.03€13.82Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to... -
Al Capone by Deirdre Bair
RRP: €17.84€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804518Author Deirdre BairFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton 9780007544912 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€3.15Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 A rich historical biography of 'those wild Wyndhams' - three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain. Mary, Madeline and Pamela -... -
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton
RRP: €19.03€13.82Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 A rich historical biography of 'those wild Wyndhams' - three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain. Mary, Madeline and Pamela -... -
Extreme Risk by Chris Hunter 9780552157599 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism and the... -
The River Of Doubt: Into the Unknown Amazon by Candice Millard 9780316027144
€27.11In 1912, shortly after losing his bid to spend a third term as American President to Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt with his son Kermit, a Brazilian guide and a band of camaradas set off deep into the Amazon jungle and a very uncertain fate. Although... -
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
RRP: €17.84€13.03Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and... -
Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History by Janina Ramirez
RRP: €13.08€9.25Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Based on a sequence of mystical visions she received in 1373, her book is called Revelations of Divine Love. ... -
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
RRP: €13.08€9.25*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering... -
Wine and War by Don Kladstrup
RRP: €15.46€10.23In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life. These are the true stories of vignerons who sheltered Jewish... -
Marie Antoinette by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: €20.22€13.73'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the... -
Life and Early Travels by Cyriac of Ancona
€36.96Cyriac of Ancona (1391-1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by his... -
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock
RRP: €22.60€16.67The book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. Bullock divides the narrative into three main... -
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin 9781801102605
RRP: €13.08€8.94This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer... -
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
RRP: €15.46€10.82Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese... -
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
RRP: €17.84€13.03On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Found naked amongst the destruction, the bodies of Darnley and his valet bore marks of strangulation... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: €15.46€10.23Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling,... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: €29.75€21.44***A Best Book of 2022, The Times******Book of the Year, Spectator***A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most... -
A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos
RRP: €15.46€10.19This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short
RRP: €20.22€15.09'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. His... -
One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick 9781471192326
RRP: €15.46€9.73'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The TimesNigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the... -
One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper by Sarah Bax Horton 9781789295160
RRP: €22.60€15.49This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: €5.94€4.52The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackLike his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and... -
The Nemesis File by Paul Bruce 9781843582731
RRP: €11.89€8.15Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. His top secret mission was to execute IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his SAS comrades shot down one terrified...