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Women of the Foreign Office: Britain's First Female Ambassadors by Elizabeth Warburton
RRP: £20.00£15.04Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and... -
Life in the Glass House: Tales from the United Nations by Miles Stoby 9781913491833
RRP: £30.00£20.88This book is a personal, humorous and insightful insider's perspective of what goes on a daily basis inside the United Nations. It is incisive, direct and a pleasure to read. There have been other historical accounts and contemporary assessments of the... -
James Buchanan: The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861 by Professor of History Jean H Baker 9780805069464
RRP: £30.00£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069464Author Jean H. BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat
RRP: £23.99£20.41The Carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century. Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual Southerner in a sweater, Carter deserves to be remembered instead as a risk taker who always did the right thing, not the political... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: £17.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M Graff
RRP: £25.00£24.78From Garrett Graff, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate-"the best and fullest account of the crisis, one unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon" (Kirkus Reviews,... -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
£26.89Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
Wilson by Paul Routledge 9781904950684
RRP: £12.99£9.23Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in 1967, frustrated the fulfilment of his prime ministerial... -
Con Colbert: 16Lives by John O'Callaghan
RRP: £15.99£12.57Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became... -
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson 9781476728827
RRP: £23.00£16.61The Wise Men introduces the original brightest and best, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the... -
Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £14.99£9.96Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: £10.99£7.99A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
Warwick the Kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame by A.J. Pollard 9781847251824
RRP: £60.00£58.24Warwick the Kingmaker was a fifteenth-century celebrity; a military hero, self-publicist and populist. For twelve years, he was the arbiter of English politics, not hesitating to set up and put down kings. In the dominant strand of recent English... -
William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century by Wilfrid Prest 9780199652013
£43.13Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through... -
Come the Revolution: A memoir by Alex Mitchell 9781742233079
RRP: £22.95£20.88In Come the Revolution, journalist Alex Mitchell gives a rollicking account of life in newspapers and his radical past as a Trotskyist. From the cut-throat era of Sydney tabloids, he graduated to Fleet Street as an investigative reporter, taking part in... -
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 by Stephen F. Cohen 9780195026979
£15.60This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929... -
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £25.00£16.83As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas... -
Time to Declare: Second Innings David Owen 9781842752364
RRP: £14.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842752364Author David OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Politico's Publishing LtdPublisher Methuen Publishing Ltd -
The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle by Charles Williams
RRP: £20.99£14.36Critical acclaim for The Last Great Frenchman "This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verveand anecdotal warmth, along with fresh appraisals of de Gaulle'scareer as soldier, politician, and head of state." --PublishersWeekly. "Highly... -
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815 by Francois-Rene Chateaubriand
RRP: £26.00£17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376172Author Francois-Rene ChateaubriandFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Fighter Master Folland and the Gladiators by Derek N. James 9780752443973
RRP: £16.99£13.13Although Henry P. Folland never received the public acclaim accorded to the Spitfire and Hurricane's designers, more than 7,000 examples were built of the seventeen fighters he designed. His first biplane fighter, the Royal Aircraft Factory's S.E.5/5a,... -
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy by Supriya Vani
RRP: £20.00£13.50'It takes courage to be an empathetic leader. And I think if anything the world needs empathetic leadership now, perhaps more than ever.' Jacinda Ardern Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on a wave of popular enthusiasm dubbed 'Jacindamania'... -
Credible and True: The Political and Personal Memoir of K. Harvey Proctor by Harvey Proctor 9781785900013
RRP: £20.00£15.10Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor's almost continuous relationship with the police and media, when officers from the Metropolitan Police raided his home in connection... -
Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Salman Abu Sitta 9789774168338
RRP: £24.99£20.61Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss... -
In Bed with the Blueshirts by Shane Ross
RRP: £14.99£10.06The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government.Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught personal... -
Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
RRP: £9.99£7.32The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable... -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
RRP: £24.99£16.63Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of... -
Permanent Record: A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower by Edward Snowden 9781529035667
RRP: £14.99£12.05THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated... -
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe
RRP: £18.00£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224117Author Alexis CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *... -
Churchill by Paul Johnson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117995Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 157g -
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi Anbara Salam Khalidi 9780745333564
RRP: £24.99£16.63* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time when the effects of the revolution and counterrevolution... -
John F. Kennedy by Robert Dallek
RRP: £11.49£8.33Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th President. Now, in this marvelous short biography of John F. Kennedy, Dallek achieves... -
The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? by Kieran Whitworth
RRP: £9.99£7.32Do you think you know everything there is to know about Churchill? Have you seen every film and read every book ever produced about this great British statesman? Then delve into The Churchill Quiz Book to find 800 fascinating questions on every aspect... -
Legends: Twelve People Who Made South Africa a Better Place Matthew Blackman 9781776391066
RRP: £13.99£9.44We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen... -
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey by Antony Lerman 9780745332765
RRP: £22.99£15.40Antony Lerman traces his five-decade personal and political journey from idealistic socialist Zionist to controversial critic of Israel's aggression towards the Palestinians. As head of an influential UK Jewish think tank, he operated at the highest... -
Yesterday's Man by Branko Marcetic
£20.09Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States' longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized.Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called "Middle-Class Joe" served... -
True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy 9780349123493
£17.02A landmark autobiography and the definite account from a member of America's most heralded family. As a young man, Edward M. Kennedy played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother, John F. Kennedy. In 1962, he was elected to the US Senate,... -
A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA by Duane R. Clarridge 9780743245364
RRP: £18.99£17.77He is the highest ranking American spy directly and personally involved in espionage, war, counterterrorism, and intrigue to make public his life. Dashing and flamboyant, with mettle akin to the granite for which his home state of New Hampshire is known,... -
Adventures in Aviation by Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFC
RRP: £14.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784657987Author Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFCFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
Blair Inc.: The Money, The Power, The Scandals by David Hencke 9781784189983
£9.84Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated GBP80 million of earnings accrued in...