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Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich
RRP: £36.99£27.33Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers. In this major new biography, internationally acclaimed German historian Peter Longerich... -
Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump by Kim Darroch
RRP: £9.99£6.84'Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person "rise and fall" ... Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree ... There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin... -
The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph J. Randy Taraborrelli 9781250174079
RRP: £15.99£12.19A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous privilege against the backdrop of American history, this third generation of... -
Memoirs Of A Revolutionary by Victor Serge
RRP: £13.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174517Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Hitler's English Girlfriend: The Story of Unity Mitford by David Rehak
RRP: £9.99£6.84A free-spirited rebel from the start, Unity will do and say just about anything to get herself in trouble. She's different, an outsider. In Adolf Hitler, she finds her idol of nonconformity. But soon her mind is also brainwashed by his racist ideology... -
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight by Maria Toorpakai
RRP: £9.99£7.32A Different Kind of Daughter is a powerful memoir about a young Pakistani girl who, until the age of twelve, was disguised as a boy so she could compete in sports.'Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a... -
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy by Julian Hayes 9781472146533 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£3.03The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph 'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For... -
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy by Julian Hayes
RRP: £10.99£6.67The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph 'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For... -
Selected Essays (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: £2.99£2.47HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words' Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George... -
East and West by Christopher Patten 9780330373081
RRP: £16.99£12.47In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor of the colony of Hong Kong. He explains why he adopted the stance that he did, and how he fought his... -
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy F Geithner
RRP: £20.00£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138611Author Timothy F. GeithnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.34Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so he won himself a unique place in American letters. Acclaimed by writers... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £20.00£14.91'Vividly told, engrossing history' CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler'Precise, empathic . . . a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant one' GUARDIANA thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's... -
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Stimulating, erudite and above all entertaining...For any reader tired of the seemlingly endless round of Churchill-worship' Robert HarrisA radical biography for a new generationIn A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when... -
The Duchess Countess Catherine Ostler 9781471172564
RRP: £25.00£13.95A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked... -
We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post War Britain by Daniel Sonabend 9781788733250
RRP: £12.99£11.17In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in London they found a revived fascist movement inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley and stirring up agitation... -
Ellen Wilkinson: From Red Suffragist to Government Minister by Paula Bartley
RRP: £24.99£16.63Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time. Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family,... -
A Woman's Work by Harriet Harman
RRP: £10.99£7.99GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017**Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards**Now with a new epilogue for the paperback'Compelling ... She has guts to spare ... An important story ... Role model? You bet' Tim Shipman, Sunday... -
Disraeli: The Novel Politician by David Cesarani
RRP: £18.99£16.18From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fresh, vivid look at Disraeli's life, achievements, and temperament that casts doubts on his much-touted commitment to Jewish rights Lauded as a "great Jew," excoriated by antisemites, and one of... -
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: £16.99£12.47Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was... -
Pilate by Ann Wroe
RRP: £14.99£10.95Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the... -
To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Linda O. McMurry 9780195139273
RRP: £17.49£15.63In the generation that followed Frederick Douglass, no African American was more prominent, or more outspoken, than Ida B. Wells. Her crusade against lynching in the 1890s made her famous, or notorious, across America, and she was seriously considered as... -
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro 9780394528359
RRP: £60.00£47.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780394528359Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet 9780349008370
RRP: £9.99£7.00I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel . . .For her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in... -
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery 9781907994692
RRP: £24.50£22.35This is a book about Sir John Cowperthwaite - the man Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman identified as being behind Hong Kong's remarkable post-war economic transformation. Despite there being some articles about him and effusive obituaries... -
Churchill's Bodyguard Tom Hickman 9780755314492
RRP: £10.99£7.61For fans of Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, discover the story of Walter H. Thompson, the man who saved Winston Churchill's life more than once.Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1945, brought back from retirement at the outbreak of... -
Clementine Churchill by Mary Soames
RRP: £25.00£18.02When Clementine, Lady Spencer-Churchill died in 1977, aged 92, she had become a much-loved and iconic figure to the British public. In spite of being instantly recognisable as the seemingly serene, cool and detached wife of Winston Churchill, she had... -
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa by Brian J. Peterson
RRP: £27.99£24.14Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice,... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham 9780812979480
RRP: £21.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979480Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography by Lady Margaret Thatcher 9780062012340
RRP: £22.99£14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062012340Author Lady Margaret ThatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 788Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy by Benny Morris
RRP: £16.99£14.61A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage Sidney Reilly (c. 1873-1925) is one of the most colorful and best-known spies of the twentieth century. Emerging from humble beginnings in southern Russia, Reilly... -
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
RRP: £15.99£11.61Freedom from Fear - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects... -
People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me by Caroline Slocock 9781785904608
RRP: £9.99£7.48As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural... -
Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore' by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. In this,... -
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £14.99£9.96'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa Gregory The dramatic... -
We Didn't Start the Fire: My Struggle for Democracy in Cambodia by Sam Rainsy 9786162150630
£22.57Cambodia's long-time opposition leader and former finance minister Sam Rainsy is committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is in exile in France to avoid a twelve-year prison sentence on politically motivated charges and is banned from... -
Wall Street and FDR: The True Story of How Franklin D. Roosevelt Colluded with Corporate America by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570713
RRP: £12.99£9.74Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great Depression and Second World War. Antony Sutton challenges this received wisdom, presenting a controversial... -
The Unspoken Kennedy Truth by Laurent Guyenot
RRP: £10.28£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957170418Author Laurent GuyenotFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint AfnilPublisher AfnilWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm -
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye 9781328959720
RRP: £27.99£21.21In the long history of American demagogues from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use 'McCarthyism' to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a... -
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell 9780691154695
RRP: £30.00£24.06A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest...