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A new edition with a new introduction, this is a deeply personal record of Orwell's growing despair and disillusionment with the Spanish Civil War, gathering themes he would later explore to perfection in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Having...

In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of...

FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY When Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick's in 1918, few people believed she could win the seat - yet she did. A breakthrough in the bitter struggle for female enfranchisement had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250214805Author Stacey AbramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 18mm

One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) has left an indelible mark on philosophy and critical theory. His innovative work on history, society, power, and the state has influenced several...

Benedict Anderson was one of the most respected thinkers on the history of nationalism. His acclaimed Imagined Communities is one of the most cited works in social science.In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world...

The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky provides an invaluable picture of Leon Trotsky's intimate experience as both a leader of, and outcast exile from, the Russian Revolution. Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova's portrait brings Trotsky's extraordinary life to...

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780142003428Author Daniel EllsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that island's emancipation from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486456096Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'A triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles Dungan Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his...

A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed...

Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618131600Author Bill TurqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 694g

Among the nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress...

A Wall Street Journal best book of the year"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he...

The Afghan war will be remembered for its politics more than its combat. There were few, if any, major battles. The longest war in American history has left 1,800 U.S. troops dead, fewer than half the number killed in Iraq. The violence is mostly...

Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early adventurers whose name nearly everyone knows. His book was one of the best-loved...

Politics Home: Parliamentarians' Top Books for Christmas 2021'A must read for political geeks' - Saqib BhattiThere was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election, the victory of...

New details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history.It?s well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S...

THIRTEEN HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. This is the story, told in incredible, spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground--in the U.S. State Department Special...

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, whose pain, heartbreak, and grief seemed immensely...

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,...

'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ...

'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979473Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1125gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. ...

First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic. Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110712Author Susan QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743289542Author Philip FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Book and George Washington Book Prize and New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year - Adult and Sons of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639734Author Leon RosselsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of...

From the early rumblings of the French revolution, at the start of the long nineteenth century, to the fall of the Soviet bloc at the close of the short twentieth century, historian Eric Hobsbawm is possibly the foremost chronicler of the modern age. ...

Available for the first time in a decade-the book that launched a $5 billion lawsuit--with a new introduction by the author in which O'Brien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania. This entertaining look inside the world of Donald Trump is chock full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609334Author Robert S. GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 655g

Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey...

Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not...

Once called "Washington's ultimate survivor" by The Washington Post, Frank C. Carlucci III served six presidents, traveled across the world on behalf of his country, and ultimately rose to prominence as secretary of defense. Through every era of his...