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A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a Certified Jew by Michael Wieck 9780299185442
RRP: €23.74€17.71A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Konigsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was percecuted first as a ""certified... -
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books by Arie Kaplan
RRP: €28.55€25.99Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators... -
Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian by Leonora Neville 9780190939892
RRP: €36.28€26.62Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First... -
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey 9780140183504 [USED COPY]
€20.35Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it Strachey cleverly exposes the... -
The Military Life and Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey: Monty's Army Commander by Rostron, Peter 9781399014489
€21.24Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britains contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomerys in importance. Dempsey survived two and... -
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong 9780140280210 [USED COPY]
RRP: €28.56€2.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong 9780140280210
RRP: €28.56€20.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History by Timothy Wilson-Smith
RRP: €19.03€14.58Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to... -
Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento 9780140436778
€17.30Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals, this work is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. It is also a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization... -
Warlord: Tojo Against the World by Edwin P. Hoyt 9780815411710
RRP: €16.65€12.90Vilified in the West as the Japanese equivalent of Hitler, Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was in fact cut from very different cloth. Lacking the skills and charisma of a statesman, fueled by no apocalyptic visions, Tojo was an unimaginative soldier whose... -
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner 9780520224643 [USED COPY]
RRP: €28.50€3.02Joan has a unique role in Western imagination - she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of "Joan of Arc", both as she lived in... -
Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss by Alison Ripley Cubitt 9780993318313
RRP: €11.89€9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993318313Author Alison Ripley CubittFormat PaperbackImprint Lambert Nagle MediaPublisher Lambert Nagle MediaWeight(grams) 286g -
Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel
RRP: €27.37€18.53From the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like American myth than history: With only three months of formal... -
Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob by Jr Charles Read 9780995006089
RRP: €15.46€11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995006089Author Jr Charles ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lammi Publishing Inc.Publisher Lammi Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 249g -
Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster by Pavel Sudoplatov 9780316821155
€31.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316821155Author Anatoli SudoplatovFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm)... -
In the Footsteps of William Wallace: In Scotland and Northern England by Alan Young 9780752456386
RRP: €23.79€17.87For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotland's turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of Blind Harry's legendary account, the bold, but savage, hero of the Scottish wars? Or, as some... -
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus by Mr Frederic Raphael 9780307456359
RRP: €28.56€20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307456359Author Frederic RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder by James Henry Hammond 9781570032226
€25.51This set of diaries (1841-1864) brings to light the journal notations of James Henry Hammond, a prominent South Carolina planter and slaveholder. They reveal a man whose fortune and intellect combined to make him an important leader, but whose flaws kept... -
Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich by Ulf Schmidt 9781847250315
RRP: €71.40€70.23Born in 1904, Brandt played a major role in the first mass killing programme of the Third Reich, the so called 'euthanasia' programme. As Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in the Nazi regime;... -
The Children of Castletown House by Sarah Connolly-Carew 9781845888572
RRP: €29.75€22.06Castletown House, Ireland's largest and earliest Palladian-style house, was built between 1722 and 1729 for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland. In 1967, the house was bought by the Hon. Desmond... -
The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963 by Tim Coates 9781843810247 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€7.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843810247Author Tim CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Tim CoatesPublisher Tim CoatesWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 170mm * 15mm -
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard
RRP: €29.75€20.97Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population. Yet he... -
The Cap: The Price of a Life by Roman Frister 9780802137623
RRP: €15.46€15.30Uncompromisingly frank, "both brutal and beautifully written" (The Boston Globe), The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings... -
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous
RRP: €24.98€15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426118Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm... -
Mein Kampf (Uncensored Edition) by Adolf Hitler 9780984536139
RRP: €35.64€26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536139Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Elite Minds, IncorporatedPublisher Elite Minds, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 741g -
The Genius of Alexander the Great by N. G. L. Hammond 9780807847442
RRP: €35.64€34.07By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status... -
The Downfall of the Famous: New Annotated Edition of the Fates of Illustrious Men by Giovanni Boccaccio 9781599103730
RRP: €23.80€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103730Author Giovanni BoccaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 354g -
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey 9780061367434
RRP: €21.41€14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061367434Author David StarkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives by Edvard Radzinsky 9780385479547
RRP: €24.99€17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385479547Author Edvard RadzinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Crave the Rose: Anne Bronte at 200 by Nick Holland
€14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436361Author Nick HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm -
Madame Du Chatelet: Scientist, Philosopher and Feminist of the Enlightenment by Esther Ehrman 9780907582854
€32.61This book examines the life and work of the eighteenth-century scientist, philosopher and feminist, Madame du Chatelet.Book InformationISBN 9780907582854Author Esther EhrmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Berg PublishersPublisher Bloomsbury... -
The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-Of-Hand Artist by Karl Johnson 9780805080599
RRP: €28.55€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080599Author Karl JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499g -
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
RRP: €35.69€27.63John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was... -
Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano by Tim Newark 9781250002648
RRP: €23.79€16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002648Author Tim NewarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 209mm... -
A Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Revised 2018 Edition by Brian W Pugh
RRP: €47.59€40.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787053465Author Brian W PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 1084g -
The Empress of Australia: A Post-War Memoir by Harry Leslie Smith 9780987842572
RRP: €11.90€10.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader by Harry Kelsey 9780300180558
€42.25Although his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. Born into a family of wealthy pirates,... -
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Truth or Lies by Roderick Graham 9780861537839
RRP: €16.65€15.82Bonnie Prince Charlie is one of the best-known and romantic names in Scottish and British history. As with so many legends, the truth is often obscure and the debate continues to rage over questions of his plans to become Charles III, his wish to make... -
The Trial of Queen Caroline: The Scandalous Affair That Nearly Ended a Monarchy by Jane Robins 9780743255905
€50.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255905Author Jane RobinsFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 735g -
Sir William Hamilton by Brian Fothergill 9781845880422
RRP: €21.42€16.72Sir William HamiltonBook InformationISBN 9781845880422Author Brian FothergillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 610g