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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins 9780099540250
RRP: £16.99£10.31A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**A searing, landmark study of the... -
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Henry Oster and Dexter Ford
RRP: £8.99£2.79The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller"I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive."In the darkest moment of history, one child found... -
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton 9781472148667
RRP: £10.99£6.28The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw... -
Irma Grese - The Holocaust: The Incredible Life Of Irma Grese And The Holocaust: The Intriguing Life And History Of The Blonde Beast by Wilbur Chindler 9781532795794
RRP: £8.99£7.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532795794Author Wilbur ChindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Lucy Worsley 9781529303919
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth... -
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau
RRP: £9.99£7.67The untold story of Marie Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon was born into a family of perfumers and soon became apprentice to his father's modest perfumery. But he dreamed of the glittering court of... -
The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival by Tova Friedman
RRP: £9.99£3.51A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I... -
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £9.99£7.11'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning... -
The Ruling Elite: a Study in Imperialism, Genocide and Emancipation by Deanna Spingola 9781426954627
RRP: £20.61£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426954627Author Deanna SpingolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 989gDimensions(mm)... -
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh
RRP: £16.99£10.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221369Author Ryan H. WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
RRP: £12.99£9.09Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to... -
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: £6.99£5.13Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' by Vincent Bevins 9781035412280
RRP: £16.99£12.70This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn is to say that it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world. - ROB DELANEY Bevins's clear-eyed,... -
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: £12.99£4.11With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible... -
Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich by Isabel Vincent 9781684514069
RRP: £12.99£8.18Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish... -
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99£8.60THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and... -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
RRP: £10.99£7.77Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis' extermination groups and explores in detail its composition, its actions, andthe... -
In Plain Sight: An investigation into UFOs and impossible science by Ross Coulthart 9781460764183
RRP: £10.99£7.25An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer to the question might have arrived.Award-winning investigative journalist... -
The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History by Beat Kumin
RRP: £33.99£31.00A fully updated fourth edition written by a team of specialists. Enabling students to place early modern Europe within a global context and to see how Europe interacted with the broader early modern world through the exchange of ideas and goods. New... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560815
RRP: £16.99£13.28'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and... -
The Violence of Colonial Photography by Daniel Foliard
RRP: £16.99£12.88SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 2023The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the first... -
The Yorkshire Forager: A Wild Food Survival Journey by Alysia Vasey
RRP: £14.99£9.80Alysia Vasey's earliest memories are of walking alongside her grandfather as they explored the West Yorkshire moors that they called home. As an adult, this love for wild things stayed with her, even as she learnt that her family's knowledge of edible... -
Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Uncrowned King by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: £4.99£3.80The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in 12 months'. From the death of his father in 1936 to the... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RRP: £31.00£28.36Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's March 1917, Book 2, covers three days of the February Revolution when the nation unraveled, leading to the Bolshevik takeover eight months later. The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work... -
Hold On Edna!: The heartwarming true story of the first baby born on the NHS by Aneira Thomas
RRP: £8.99£6.45THIS HEARTBREAKING, HEARTWARMING, TRUE STORY FOLLOWING THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY IN WALES IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER WRITTEN.'I am a proud supporter of our National Health Service which has shown yet again what an important and valued... -
The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: £14.99£11.35One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the... -
The CIA: An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford 9781399816847
RRP: £25.00£16.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
RRP: £9.99£6.70In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her... -
John Knox by Jane Dawson
RRP: £16.99£14.61The definitive biography of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland"Never before has there been such a thoroughly and sympathetically critical treatment of the 16th-century Scottish reformer's thought and times. . ... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer 9781773238807
RRP: £8.50£7.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773238807Author Max HorkheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 200g -
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham 9781839013188
RRP: £14.99£11.32'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by managers... -
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland by Tom Parfitt
RRP: £25.00£16.78SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A thrilling, profound masterpiece' NICHOLAS CRANE'One of our great travel writers' LUKE HARDING'A travel book for our time' SARA WHEELERA breath-taking memoir of Tom Parfitt's remarkable 1,000... -
Necropolis City of the Dead: Undercliffe Victorian Cemetery by Mark Davis
RRP: £15.99£10.85In Victorian Bradford, when death came, there was only one real place to be buried. For the rich and poor alike the newly laid out Undercliffe Cemetery, designed by William Gay, was the fashionable place to be seen in death. The cemetery, which was... -
The Nazi Doctors (Revised Edition): Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
RRP: £19.99£12.05In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a new preface, The Nazi Doctors remains the definitive... -
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl 9781844132393
RRP: £10.99£7.7716 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A book to read, to cherish, to debate, and one that will ultimately keep the memories of the victims alive' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped PyjamasA prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was... -
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival by Joan Druett
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Riveting." -The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best-and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's... -
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire by John Newsinger 9781909026292
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909026292Author John NewsingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 468g -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall 9781529920017
RRP: £10.99£7.77The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY... -
The Gift: A survivor's journey to freedom by Edith Eger
RRP: £12.99£7.73'An incredible human being with an extraordinary story to share' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A beautiful, life-changing manifesto' Brene Brown'I will be forever changed by Dr Eger's story' Oprah'Her story is a testament to our true human potential. She's a... -
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive by Erik Brouwer
RRP: £8.99£5.22**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.'In 1943, the Dutch champion boxer, Leen Sanders, was sent to...