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Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the...

Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the...

It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man, Edward Snowden. The consequences have shaken the leaders of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553447118Author Jonathan AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female...

Part memoir, part rumination on the declining moral compass of the American political class, The Unraveling is the first book to place restoring political ethics at the center of the renewal of American democracy. Politics is a brutal game, but Bauer...

Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him...

Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English...

Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595230843Author Donald RumsfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

Polarising, combative, unconventional: few embody the fraught nature of British politics today quite like John Bercow. A man who is revered by his one-time opponents and condemned by his former bedfellows, he has traversed the deep chasm between the...

In 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a 'life...

'Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society' Jeremy CorbynTHIS A CALL TO ARMS FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW: DON'T LET THE PAST BECOME OUR FUTURE Harry Leslie Smith is a great British...

Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading and international...

Forthright, witty and deliciously opinionated, Jean Trumpington's Coming Up Trumps is a wonderfully readable account of a life very well lived. In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538733301Author Dan CrenshawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Biography/Autobiography) 2010 and National Jewish Book Award (History) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781592642786Author Yehuda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760464Author Mary Ann GlendonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

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A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John...

WINNER OF THE 2020 MICHEL DEON PRIZE'O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... An arresting and evocative story' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland'A tour de force ... Love, politics, murder, wars, and the fracturing of ties, personal and...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature,...

The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history. A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such, he tormented Henry VII for eight years. He tried three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624093657Author Patric Tariq MelletFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times 'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER#1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BESTSELLERJared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened...

Apologies 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 9780394480763Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 1296Imprint Alfred A...

In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life, from her earliest childhood memories and the time when she met and became engaged to Boris Yeltsin, her companion of over fifty...

The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track...

He lived a double-life in the sixties.Faked his own death in the seventies.And retained his cover in the eighties. 'A case more important than Profumo' Financial Times 'A riveting read' Literary Review A period thriller with powerful political and...

This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young...

Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British history. Like it or not, her radical social and economic...

Sergio Vieira de Mello-a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder -was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628395Author Ronald ReaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman-loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060854935Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by...

The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, decades later, many in...

Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRE On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented...