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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre
RRP: $14.18$7.73THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians and the ultimate gift for anyone who loves a good spy thriller!'The best true spy story I have ever read' John le... -
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: $25.79$17.20An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was... -
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: $16.76$5.66With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible... -
Helmet for my Pillow: The World War Two Pacific Classic by Robert Leckie
RRP: $16.76$9.97The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICHere is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his... -
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $19.34$10.36'A cracking read ' Lynn Barber, Observer The Mitford Girls tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional... -
Never Will I Die: The inspiring Special Forces soldier who cheated death and learned to live again by Toby Gutteridge
RRP: $11.60$6.95There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic and conclusive. I slump silently on to my knees and topple forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads have seen enough death to assume mine is instantaneous... -
Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
RRP: $21.92$11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809648Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 264g -
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton 9781472148667
RRP: $14.18$7.75The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw... -
Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe 9781785374470
RRP: $23.21$16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374470Author Richard O'RaweFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder 9781398506107
RRP: $14.18$7.59THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER 'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true' Stephen... -
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
RRP: $12.89$5.25The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ... -
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen. by Nicola Tallis 9781789295191
RRP: $32.25$18.02Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's younger daughter, who spent the majority of her early years as a girl with an uncertain... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560808
RRP: $28.38$15.61'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and... -
Lawrence of Arabia: An in-depth glance at the life of a 20th Century legend by Ranulph Fiennes 9780241450611
RRP: $32.25$19.36The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in... -
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: $21.92$13.07Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated... -
The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: $12.89$7.17Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in... -
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean O'Driscoll
RRP: $14.18$8.46'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times_____The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.She was presented to the Queen at... -
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
RRP: $14.18$7.59Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next. An international bestseller, her life story... -
St George (new Edition) by Giles Morgan 9781843449652
RRP: $9.02$2.92St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around the third century AD. But England is only one country... -
The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown
RRP: $14.18$9.69The inspiration for the major film of the same name directed by George Clooney, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany. 'A moving, enlightening and gripping tale' - Financial TimesCast aside by his... -
Mein Kampf: My Struggle - The Original, accurate, and complete English translation by Adolf Hitler
$24.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682042847Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9780394720241
$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1975 and Pulitzer Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394720241Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 1344Imprint Random House USA... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: $14.18$9.69Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.'Eddie looked evil in the eye and... -
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley 9781803995410
RRP: $32.25$22.10'Philippa Langley has done it again.' - THE TIMESA HISTORY HIT BOOK OF THE MONTHHistory re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved?'The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard III's grave in a car... -
Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller 9781529918571
RRP: $11.60$8.32Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg (starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle) and... -
Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky by Oleg Gordievsky 9781839014901
RRP: $21.92$16.89Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in... -
No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon by Betty Webb
RRP: $12.89$8.85The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb is the only surviving codebreaker to have worked on both Nazi and Japanese codes at Bletchley... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
RRP: $25.80$17.11A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have... -
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: $24.50$16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition... -
Khazana: An Indo-Persian cookbook with recipes inspired by the Mughals by Saliha Mahmood Ahmed
RRP: $32.25$21.35OBSERVER FOOD MONTHLY COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Shortlisted for 'Travel Cookery Book of the Year' in the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.Winner of the Summer Harvest Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020, in the category Celebrity Chef in English... -
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell
RRP: $25.80$17.21A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried... -
The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik
RRP: $25.80$16.89'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE DEPTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.The... -
The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill 9780062516596
RRP: $20.64$13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062516596Author Julia Butterfly HillFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g -
Coreyography by Corey Feldman 9781250054913
RRP: $24.51$15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054913Author Corey FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's Press -
The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 by Salim Tamari 9781566569255
RRP: $30.95$20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569255Author Wasif JawhariyyehFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, Ufc Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy 9781982190927
RRP: $25.79$16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982190927Author Tim KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 142mm... -
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman 9780300228410
RRP: $21.92$21.36A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply... -
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $25.79$17.20Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in... -
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens: ‘FANTASTIC. VERY, VERY FUNNY’ JESSE ARMSTRONG ‘CLEVER, FUNNY, MAKES YOU THINK’ DAN SNOW by David Mitchell 9781405953177
RRP: $32.25$21.32Discover who we are and how we got here in comedian David Mitchell's UNRULY: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the entitled and enthroned.'JUST FANTASTIC. DELIGHTFULLY CONTRARY AND HILARIOUSLY CANTANKEROUS... -
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin 9781529152616
RRP: $28.38$18.98From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking...