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Stalin's Russia by Chris Ward 9780340731512
RRP: £54.99£54.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
One of Them Michael Cashman 9781526612366
RRP: £9.99£7.32'An extraordinary life, depicted with searing honesty ... A colourful journey sprinkled with delicious anecdotes' Daily Express 'Extraordinary ... You'll be ugly-sobbing at the end' Graham Norton 'It tells not just the story of his life, but also the... -
Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner 9781784291235
RRP: £12.99£8.83Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as... -
Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute Jonathan Mayo 9781780722771
RRP: £12.99£8.83On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos...Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move - concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis - and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who... -
A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light
RRP: £15.99£11.61WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' GuardianAlison Light met the charismatic social historian,... -
Orban: Europe's New Strongman by Paul Lendvai 9781787382206
RRP: £15.99£14.69A no-holds-barred biography of Viktor Orban, the most successful--and arguably most dangerous--politician in Hungarian history. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, and deep-rooted corruption, Prime Minister Orban has... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
RRP: £25.00£22.19Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to... -
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
RRP: £12.99£11.46An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he... -
Gordon Brown: Prime Minister by Tom Bower 9780007259625 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.29The gripping inside story of Gordon Brown's rise to become Prime Minister. Gordon Brown's arrival at the Treasury in May 1997 was greeted with great excitement - not to mention anticipation. Officials of every rank looked on expectantly to see... -
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch
RRP: £12.99£11.95Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively... -
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £16.99£12.28POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the... -
Master of the Senate: Lbj Vol.3: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Culture by Robert A. Caro 9780394528366
RRP: £60.00£43.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780394528366Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 1200Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Elizabeth the Queen: The most intimate biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Sally Bedell Smith 9781405932165
RRP: £12.99£9.34Queen. Mother. Servant. Friend. This is the most intimate portrait of our longest serving monarch, an inspiration to her country: Queen Elizabeth II.Get to know the real Elizabeth in the definitive biography from the bestselling British Royal Family... -
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill
RRP: £25.00£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726173Author Fiona HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99£9.23Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the case that Clement Attlee's reputation as Britain's... -
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle 9780008139582
RRP: £9.99£6.84Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: £16.99£12.87'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- wrote a spirited satire denouncing... -
Thomas Clarke: 16Lives Helen Litton 9781847172617
RRP: £15.99£12.37A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky
RRP: £20.00£13.67This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally... -
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
RRP: £10.99£7.54The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw,... -
Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside their Secret World by Jean Sasson 9781851689019
RRP: £12.99£9.34As the western world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden has fought to keep his personal life a mystery - loyalty and fear keeping those who know him from speaking out - until now. For the first time, two of Osama's closest family members, his... -
Napoleon: v. 1: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 by Philip Dwyer 9780747566779
RRP: £18.99£13.82Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his identity was constantly shifting, his character ambiguous and his intentions often ill-defined. He... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: £10.99£8.39In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and... -
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un Anna Fifield 9781529387254
RRP: £12.99£8.83The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese... -
One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir by Monica Dickens
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Life was a wordless battle of wits between us, with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect, and me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed, and always used the same few pieces of... -
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg 9781350408630
RRP: £30.00£23.79"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star "[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a... -
A Warning Anonymous 9781408713259
RRP: £20.00£11.83An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and... -
RFK: His Words for Our Times by Robert Francis Kennedy 9780062834140
RRP: £11.99£8.09In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures.Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK:... -
Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994 by Nelson Mandela 9780349116303
£14.87The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to his remarkable... -
James Connolly: 16Lives by Lorcan Collins
RRP: £15.99£12.57James Connolly (1868-1916) became a leading Irish socialist and revolutionary, and was one of the leaders of Ireland's rebellion in 1916. As a youth he had served in the British army in Ireland and, seeing how they treated the local population, became... -
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
RRP: £12.99£9.34Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, Swallows and Amazons and its sequels described... -
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-system Biography by Georgi M. Derluguian
RRP: £32.00£31.11Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd
RRP: £12.99£9.34The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. Her convictions, she... -
Queen of the World Robert Hardman 9781784759513
RRP: £10.99£7.99A brilliant portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it, written by the renowned royal biographer and author of Queen of Our Times, Robert Hardman._____________________________'Dazzling, poignant and full of delicious surprises;... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: £12.99£9.34Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived... -
Granuaile: The Pirate Queen by John Burke 9780717183500
RRP: £9.99£9.74Learn about Ireland's original rebel girl in this exciting new series of inspirational Irish lives In an exciting new series of books for children, John and Fatti Burke go deeper into the lives and subjects first introduced in Irelandopedia,... -
Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between Dan Jarvis 9781408710715
RRP: £9.99£7.00Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage and determination told with his customary modesty which fails to disguise the amazing man behind the story' Alan JohnsonDan Jarvis... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: £12.99£9.23Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Secrets and Lies by Christine Keeler 9781782198963 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29Christine Keeler's name is as synonymous with the Sixties sexual revolution as the Pill. Having found fame and success as a model - the portrait of her naked astride a chair is iconic - her short affair with the minister for war, John Profumo, led to his... -
The Good Spy by Kai Bird
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Silver Falchion Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780307889768Author Kai BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam...