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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor 9780674060494
RRP: £22.95£18.78One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure,... -
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley 9780008542481
RRP: £16.99£15.51A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television 'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing'... -
This Boy by Alan Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' Philip Collins, The TimesSchool on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all. ________Alan Johnson's childhoodwas not so much... -
Ascent To Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll 9780593186442
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593186442Author David L. RollFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The words fire off the page with humour, anger and eloquence' GuardianA powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela DavisEdited by Toni... -
Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime by Jang Jin-Sung
RRP: £16.99£12.47SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERDear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also the gripping story of how a member of the inner circle of this enigmatic... -
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson
RRP: £22.00£16.62With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most... -
Harold Wilson: The Winner Nick Thomas-Symonds 9781474611954
RRP: £25.00£14.88Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten,... -
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis
RRP: £12.99£9.34Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal... -
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 9780008491284
RRP: £16.99£11.47‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘I adored this book … Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK There was more than one way to be lost, more than one way to be saved. ... -
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
RRP: £9.99£6.85In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated and even filed away in a... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: £16.99£11.47William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able... -
The Power of the Outsider: A Journey of Discovery Samuel Kasumu 9781529396911
RRP: £20.00£13.55'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.' - Robert Peston' I loved reading about your childhood and your anxieties as a father. The personal is so well mixed with the analytical. Thank you for... -
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden 9781529035650 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29THE 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... -
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden 9781529035650
RRP: £20.00£14.91THE 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... -
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Found naked amongst the destruction, the bodies of Darnley and his valet bore marks of strangulation... -
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst... -
And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Baroness Catherine Ashton
RRP: £20.00£13.86Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is down-to-earth, the events that Ashton played a part in were dramatic and often historic.' Gideon... -
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £16.99£11.47'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a... -
The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 by Luca Crippa
RRP: £10.99£7.99Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner number 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust.'Horror in sharp focus... important, because the world must know.' John Lewis-Stempel, Daily... -
Forgotten Warrior: The Life and Times of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith 1890-1942. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Guthrie by Canon Professor Michael Snape
RRP: £29.99£20.94Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, this compelling new biography charts the career of a distinguished but hitherto neglected hero of the British army. Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC commanded the British 18th Division... -
Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947 by Philip Williamson 9780521118477
RRP: £46.99£38.54As Conservative party leader from 1923 to 1937 and three times prime minister, Stanley Baldwin was one of the pre-eminent public figures of interwar Britain. This edition of his letters, reports of his private conversations and related documents and... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.73Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs in human courage and the need for radical social... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann 9780674743922
RRP: £33.95£30.04A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace.Metternich has a... -
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £10.99£7.54Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war criminal whose reckless actions and heinous disregard for... -
Jacob's Ladder by Michael Ashcroft 9781785904875
RRP: £20.00£15.10Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and... -
Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
RRP: £9.99£6.15The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel.Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation... -
The Last Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson by Desmond Seward
RRP: £22.00£14.71Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries... -
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson 9780141022000
RRP: £18.99£14.22'Riveting ... this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The New York Times'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'This is a superb history of the modern world as well as a... -
Thatcher's Secret War: Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 by Clive Bloom
RRP: £14.99£11.72'Scary but enlightening' - Christopher StoneMargaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that she waged against 'the enemy within';... -
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump 9781471190162
RRP: £9.99£7.32* THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *'Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps' Financial Times A REVELATORY PORTRAIT OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE TOXIC... -
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: £19.99£15.18An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was... -
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, Brexit and Facebook Broke Democracy by Brittany Kaiser
RRP: £16.99£11.87In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information... -
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens
RRP: £13.99£10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593080979Author Stuart StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words Alan Clark 9780753826737
RRP: £16.99£12.11Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.'From the moment the first scabrous and brilliant volume was published, people... -
Sex, Spies and Scandal: The John Vassall Affair by Alex Grant 9781785907883
RRP: £20.00£14.70In September 1962, John Vassall, a clerk at the Admiralty in London, was unmasked as a Soviet spy. After being photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow, Vassall was blackmailed into handing British defence... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame 9781421445557
RRP: £29.00£25.06Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a... -
Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero by Gregor Gall 9781526173096
RRP: £20.00£14.53In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic voice... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: £4.99£3.96The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackLike his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: £20.00£13.50'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,...