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Anthony de Rothschild: Banker and Philanthropist tells the story of the man who influenced modern history. De Rothschild was at the helm of international banking, steering the system from the chaos after the First World War into the modern world. In...

Cato's life is a gripping tale rich with resonances for our own turbulent politics. Cato grappled with home-grown terrorists, a public and private debt crisis, a yawning gap between rich and poor, and a fractious ruling class whose lives took on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948954617Author Brandon K. GauthierFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Tortoise BooksPublisher Tortoise Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jefferson Davis Book Award and Lincoln Prize and Richard B. Harwell Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143113904Author Elizabeth Brown PryorFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527419Author Quentin ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Agatha Christie was the most famous female crime writers of all time, and yet in December 1926 when she was 35 years old, became the subject of a mystery: her disappearance for a period of eleven days. Questions arose such as why did she abandon her...

The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. In this biography, Jeremy Lamb examines time the nature of Rochesters alcoholism and its implications for the man and his poetry.About the AuthorJeremy Lamb was a brilliant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954317263Author John MartinFormat PaperbackImprint Apf LimitedPublisher Apf LimitedWeight(grams) 481g

Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898704303Author Veronica GoulardFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605983424Author Chil RajchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

Though the author survived two years in Auschwitz, the memories of the horrors he experienced gripped him mercilessly for years until he found relief through psychotherapy. This book is the author's unforgettable memoir of that experience.About the...

Peter the Great, whose reign saw the explosion of Russia onto the European scene, has become a legendary figure in history, as well as the subject of abiding controversy over the past two decades. Does he deserve the title 'The Great'? Was he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035818037Author Monica ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075140Author Flora FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Churchill has gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. From the day the Second World War was declared he stood out as the only man wanting to take offensive action. But is this accolade deserved? The first few years...

The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend Sailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first...

In the first English-language biography of one of the most important figures in postwar German history, Alfred C. Mierzejewski examines the life and service of Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), West Germany's first minister of economics and second chancellor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966491371Author Edith BruckFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 225g

w a l e s . c o m Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Centuryincorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, and in this new ...

w a l e s . c o m Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Centuryincorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, and in this new ...

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) - Poet Laureate and Civil War hero - is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced 'opera', actresses, scenes and the proscenium arch to the English stage. Narrowly...

Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393060799Author Katie WhitakerFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm)...

Richard I, the Lionheart, remains forever (and perhaps wrongly) the mythical king of England who preferred to wage war than to rule over his empire. The familiar epithet conveys all the principal features of his indomitable character: courage, valour,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437513Author John TannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705298Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439148945Author Hannah PakulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439148945Author Hannah PakulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century's defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the nature...

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Sydney Taylor Book Award (Teen) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780809026852Author Sid JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher...

Why is Caesar a giant? Because he effectively created the Roman Empire, and thus made possible the European civilization that grew out of it. As the People's champion against a corrupt and murderous oligarchy, he began transformation of the Roman...

Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure and hisotry; the star travel-writer of the New Yorker;...

In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more...

The story of Horatio Nelson's life - his naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar - has ensured his enduring position as England's favourite hero...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560373575Author Michael RutterFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Farcountry PressPublisher Farcountry PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109624Author Blanche Wiesen CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957296107Author John Holroyd-DovetonFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Woodland PublicationsPublisher Woodland PublicationsWeight(grams) 996g