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Henry VIII and his Six Wives: A Guide to Historic Tudor Sites by Peter Bramley 9780752487557
RRP: £20.00£15.04A greatly romanticised era of history, the Tudor period kick-started one of the most significant shifts in British culture ever to occur. When the notorious Henry VIII began his hunt for a male heir it led to momentous changes: the British Crown breaking... -
Fergie Confidential: The Duchess of York's True Story by Chris Hutchins 9780993356667
£20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993356667Author Chris HutchinsFormat HardbackImprint Neville Ness House LtdPublisher Neville Ness House Ltd -
Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty British Fascist Hitlers Angel by Anne De Courcy 9780060565336
RRP: £18.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565336Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
When Even the Poets Were Silent: The Life of a Jewish Hungarian Holocaust Survivor Under Nazism and Communism by George Pogany 9780956384751
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956384751Author George PoganyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing)Weight(grams) 291g -
Big Jim: Jim Larkin and the 1913 Lockout by Rory McConville
RRP: £13.99£11.54The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form. On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin Lockout had begun. Over the next four months, James Larkin... -
Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Führer by Hellmut G. Haasis 9781632203120
RRP: £10.99£9.53Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all changed when he took it upon himself, without telling his family or friends, to... -
Where Memory Leads: My Life by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £16.99£9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420494Author Saul FriedlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 by Susan Ronald 9781250238740
RRP: £16.99£11.62On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an understatement - known for his... -
Piercing the Eggshell: The Hubers and their Astrological Psychology by Barry Hopewell 9780995673656
RRP: £17.00£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995673656Author Barry HopewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint HopewellPublisher HopewellWeight(grams) 140g -
Herzl by Steven Beller 9781870015905 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£4.34At the beginning of June 1895, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse, made a momentous decision - he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became... -
Herzl by Steven Beller
RRP: £9.99£6.80At the beginning of June 1895, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse, made a momentous decision - he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became... -
The Hunger Winter: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember by Tom Bijvoet 9780986830891
RRP: £10.95£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986830891Author Tom BijvoetFormat PaperbackImprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 127g -
I Saw It: A Survivor's True Story of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa
RRP: £9.99£7.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198959Author Keiji NakazawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g -
Woody Guthrie: a Life by Joe Klein
RRP: £23.00£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333856Author Joe KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara by James G. Blight 9780742542211
RRP: £30.00£28.31Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book,... -
Tommy Atkins: The Story of the English Soldier by John Laffin 9780752460666
RRP: £9.99£2.91Tommy Atkins is the English soldier, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth... -
Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye 9781416570929
RRP: £22.99£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416570929Author Charles RappleyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Kenmare History and Survival by Colum Kenny
RRP: £25.00£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934156Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend by Robert K. DeArment 9780806122212
RRP: £21.95£14.49The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized for more than a hundred years by writers who found it easier to invent history than the research it... -
A Distant Prospect by Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners 9781885983329
RRP: £12.99£8.96The sequel to Lord Berners' First Childhood, A Distant Prospect is a poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition. Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to... -
The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume I: Ascent, 1799-1851 by Angus Hawkins 9780199570911
£47.66Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the longest serving party leader in modern British politics, heading the Conservative party for twenty-two years from 1846 to 1868. He abolished slavery in the... -
William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910 by Ben Procter 9780195112771
RRP: £31.49£31.10William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colourful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in Original Edition, Ben Procter gives us... -
Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson by Jonathan Ancer 9781431421497
RRP: £17.95£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431421497Author Jonathan AncerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd -
Larisa Reisner. A Biography: Decolonizing the Captive Mind by Catherine Porter 9781642599992
RRP: £30.00£19.88"She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path," Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, the heroine of his novel Doctor Zhivago.Commissar, revolutionary fighter, espionage agent, journalist,... -
Testimony of Love by Gwen F. Steele-Perkins 9780957035317
RRP: £8.99£7.93This book is fascinating on many levels. It is a glimpse, through her own words, into the life of a woman, Gwen, born in the nineteenth century into a life of privilege. Much of her early adult life was lived in expatriate communities in Egypt, Hong Kong... -
The Ladies of Gregynog by Eirene White 9780708324059
RRP: £4.99£4.04Eirene White's The Ladies of Gregynog tells the story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, inheritors of great wealth at the end of the nineteenth century, and unique among their wealthy contemporaries in the early twentieth century. The two sisters... -
Elizabeth: The Scandalous Life of an 18th Century Duchess by Claire Gervat 9780099429357 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£7.01Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. Born into impoverished gentility, her beauty, wit and vitality soon earned her a place at the centre of court life. When she married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 she had... -
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe 9781590178300
RRP: £22.95£14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178300Author Ronald BlytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster 9780195166828 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.49£5.27"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special... -
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster 9780195166828
RRP: £30.49£22.76"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special... -
Trials Of The Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann Hamilton 9780316341370
£15.39Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South-surviving... -
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi 9780898752892
RRP: £22.50£20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752892Author Aisin-Gioro Pu YiFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the... -
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry
RRP: £12.99£11.86It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children... -
Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer by Jeannette Mirsky
RRP: £26.00£25.25A man who advanced human knowledge on many fronts, Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) pursued dramatic adventure with scientific purpose. Jeannette Mirsky has here drawn from Stein's books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival... -
King Arthur: pocket GIANTS by Nick Higham
RRP: £6.99£5.47Why is King Arthur a giant? Because his story has had such strong influences on our understanding of the history of Europe and the English-speaking world. Because the debate about Arthur as a historical figure has been central to understanding the fall... -
Saladin by Anne-Marie Edde 9780674283978
RRP: £24.95£20.29Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography-a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin's... -
The Autobiography of the British Soldier by John Lewis-Stempel 9780755315826 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.25From Agincourt to Waterloo, from Dunkirk to the Gulf War, and everywhere in between, one man has served in all these battles. This is the story of Britain at war from the perspective of that man. It is the autobiography of the British soldier. In a... -
Mein Kampf (James Murphy Translation) by Adolf Hitler 9780984536153
RRP: £22.95£17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536153Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Elite Minds, IncorporatedPublisher Elite Minds, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 609g -
Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power by Robert E. Sullivan
RRP: £49.95£40.19On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas.His Macaulay is... -
Borderlander: The Life of James Kirker, 1793-1852 by Ralph Adam Smith 9780806191232
RRP: £21.95£17.15James Kirker, "Indian fighter," is among the most infamous characters of the American West. In his exhaustively researched biography, Ralph Adam Smith explores the controversy surrounding the life of this frontier figure. Kirker emigrated from...