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Anthony de Rothschild: An Autobiography by David Kynasten
RRP: €23.80€16.36Anthony 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... -
Rome'S Last Citizen by Rob Goodman
€14.72Cato'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... -
Before Evil: The Youths of Heinous Dictators by Brandon K. Gauthier
RRP: €19.03€14.72Apologies 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 -
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor 9780143113904
RRP: €36.89€26.81Apologies 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... -
I, Willie Sutton by Quentin Reynolds 9780374527419
RRP: €27.37€17.05Apologies 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: The Disappearing Novelist by Andrew Norman 9781781552629
RRP: €17.84€13.74Agatha 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... -
So Idle a Rogue: The Life and Death of Lord Rochester by Jeremy Lamb 9780750939133 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.23The 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... -
Beyond Belief - The Real Life of Daniel Defoe by John Martin 9780954317263
RRP: €17.79€15.97Apologies 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: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon by Marie-Pierre Rey 9780875807553
RRP: €28.55€23.98Alexander 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... -
A Memory for Wonders by Veronica Goulard 9780898704303
€15.42Apologies 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 -
The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman
RRP: €20.17€11.58Apologies 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 *... -
Shivitti: A Vision by Ka-Tzetnik
RRP: €16.60€11.79Though 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 by Stephen J. Lee 9780415092791
RRP: €27.36€23.99Peter 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... -
Hottentot Venus – The Story of Saartjie Baartman by Monica Clarke 9781035818037
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies 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, Queen of Scots by Jenny Wormald
RRP: €11.89€11.54Mary 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... -
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser 9781400075140
RRP: €22.61€16.83Apologies 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: Military Genius or Menace? by Stephen Napier 9780750986847
RRP: €29.75€22.54Churchill 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 Captain and "the Cannibal": An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage by James Fairhead 9780300198775
€72.29The 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... -
Ludwig Erhard: A Biography by Alfred C. Mierzejewski 9781469621395
RRP: €45.16€41.78In 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... -
Who Loves You Like This by Edith Bruck 9780966491371
€22.13Apologies 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 -
Goodbye Twentieth Century: v. 32 by Dannie Abse 9781908069726 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€4.43w 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 ... -
Goodbye Twentieth Century: v. 32 by Dannie Abse 9781908069726
RRP: €11.89€8.46w 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 ... -
Shakespeare's Bastard: The Life of Sir William Davenant by Simon Stirling
RRP: €15.46€11.45Sir 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: Freedom Fighter by Gerry Hunt
RRP: €16.65€13.73Bobby 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... -
Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France by Katie Whitaker 9780393060799
RRP: €61.88€43.51Apologies 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 the Lionheart: King and Knight by Jean Flori
RRP: €36.89€34.62Richard 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,... -
The Falcon by John Tanner 9780142437513
RRP: €17.05€13.33Apologies 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)... -
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story by Richard Cohen
RRP: €22.61€16.05Apologies 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... -
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula 9781439148945
€18.29Apologies 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 *... -
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula 9781439148945 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.01€6.77Apologies 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 *... -
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin by Christopher Read 9780415519502
RRP: €45.21€40.20This 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... -
The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist by Douglas Buck 9781785784347
RRP: €23.80€16.02Dudley 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... -
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson 9780809026852
€14.90Apologies 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... -
Julius Caesar: pocket GIANTS by T. P. Wiseman
RRP: €8.32€6.51Why 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 by Tom Pocock 9780712650311 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.73Alan 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;... -
The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington 9781250043610
RRP: €23.80€15.12In 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... -
Nelson: Love and Fame by Edgar Vincent 9780300108613 [USED COPY]
RRP: €16.66€5.44The 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... -
Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West by Michael Rutter 9781560373575
RRP: €17.79€13.66Apologies 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 *... -
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook 9780143109624
RRP: €23.80€17.02Apologies 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 *... -
Maxim Litvinov by John Holroyd-Doveton 9780957296107
€28.38Apologies 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