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Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France by Richard Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.77Greg LeMond, 'L'Americain': fresh-faced, prodigious newcomer. This is supposed to be his year.Bernard Hinault, 'The Badger': aggressive, headstrong, five-time winner of the Tour. He has pledged his unwavering support to his team mate, LeMond.The team is... -
Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation: Save One Life, Save the World by Muriel Emanuel
RRP: £15.95£12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034254Author Muriel EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
RRP: £16.99£12.28Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The... -
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War by Simon Kuper
RRP: £9.99£6.48'Football history at its best' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'Hugely moving... a very good book indeed' FOUR FOUR TWO'Kuper is an original, sophisticated and adventurous writer. The story he has to tell... is fascinating and pressing' SUNDAY TIMESIn FOOTBALL AGAINST... -
National 4 & 5 History: The Era of the Great War 1900-1928: Second Edition by Jim McGonigle
£23.56Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect... -
A Life Of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906 by John Richardson
RRP: £40.00£29.39From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in... -
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II by Liel Leibovitz 9780393065848
RRP: £18.99£18.58"Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a... -
Witch Hunt: The Persecution of Witches in England by David Pickering
RRP: £10.99£7.25It was not so long ago that the belief in witchcraft was shared by members of all levels of society. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, diseases were feared by all, the infant mortality rate was high, and around one in six harvests was likely to... -
The Diaries of Chips Channon Vol 2 by Chips Channon
RRP: £35.00£26.69The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.'A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end of the 1930s.' Robert Harris'The uncensored,... -
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
RRP: £25.00£14.29A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain ... -
SAS and Special Forces Self Defence Handbook: A Complete Guide to Unarmed Combat Techniques by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
RRP: £19.99£13.74Written by a former Survival Instructor of the SAS, The SAS and Special Forces Self-Defence Handbook provides easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions on coping with all kinds of threatening situations, from muggings to knife attacks. The author teaches... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: £19.99£14.68The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his... -
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper by Bruce Robinson
RRP: £18.99£13.11LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of... -
Surviving Hell: The brutal true story of a Chennai Six prisoner by Nick Dunn
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Truly remarkable' DAMIEN LEWISTrapped in a living nightmare, former-para Nick Dunn, one of the 'Chennai Six', was wrongly imprisoned in an Indian jail.While battling to be heard both at home and abroad, Nick summoned the resilience and endurance of his... -
The Mick Ronson Story: Turn and Face the Strange by Rupert Creed 9780857162267
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the new leading biography of guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and musician Mick Ronson. Most famous for his critical contribution to David Bowie's spectacular live band, the Hull-based Spiders from Mars, and studio albums including Hunky... -
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert
RRP: £10.99£7.25*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An astonishing book' James O'Brien 'A gripping,... -
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster
RRP: £30.00£19.23'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy'The chapter on Larry Levan alone transformed me into wanting to be your favorite DJ' Questlove'The original and still the best' Gilles Peterson'We can't tell the story of dance music without speaking... -
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection by Samuel Pepys
RRP: £18.99£14.01Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, Samuel Pepys' The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is a collection of scintillating first-hand accounts of Restoration England, from the most tumultuous events to the simplest domestic pleasures, selected and... -
The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit by Meg Russell 9780192849717
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might have been handled better, and the role that parliament played. Since the 2016 referendum, the hotly... -
How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman
RRP: £12.99£9.09TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me?How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your... -
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten Holocaust' by Otto Rosenberg
RRP: £7.99£3.51THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and... -
On the Freedom of a Christian: With Related Texts by Martin Luther 9780872207684
RRP: £12.99£10.79Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's On the Freedom of a Christian (1520) challenged the teachings and authority of the old Church while simultaneously laying out... -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall
RRP: £22.00£15.62*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking' Sunday TelegraphThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever... -
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins
RRP: £14.99£10.86'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of... -
A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present by Ellis Wasson
RRP: £30.95£29.12Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history of Great Britain from the Hanoverian succession to the... -
T.H. Green by John Morrow 9781138620759
RRP: £12.99£12.48This volume collects a range of the most important published critical essays on T.H. Green's political philosophy. These essays consider Green's ethical and political philosophy, his accounts of freedom, rights, political obligation and property and the... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: £9.99£6.64A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
Where? by Jordan Collins 9781911679516
RRP: £6.99£5.13'Where are you from?' they say.What they mean is,'Why is your skin that colour?''Why does your hair look like that?'I am from the mountains,The seas and the sky.I am from children of millions of years,A timeline of humanity.I am from this planetAnd all... -
Abandoned Places: A photographic exploration of more than 100 worlds we have left behind by Kieron Connolly
RRP: £19.99£14.94Steam trains half-buried in the desert, roller coasters entangled in trees, hulks of ships perched high and dry miles from water - images like these are bound to make us wonder: what happened here? From forgotten railway stations to flooded shopping... -
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry by Sheridan Morley
RRP: £16.99£10.45'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry'Compulsive reading' SUNDAY TIMES'19th... -
The Anatomy Of Melancholy by Robert Burton
RRP: £30.00£19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322660Author Robert BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1424Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.11The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide by Professor John J. Michalczyk
RRP: £21.99£19.28For decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time, Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust sees celebrated... -
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders
RRP: £12.99£8.48'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as... -
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins
RRP: £20.00£14.76In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to... -
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
RRP: £18.99£14.01'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ... brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph'It is sure to be the standard English-language account for many years. It... -
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
RRP: £12.99£9.09_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington
RRP: £20.00£13.09*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of... -
US Army Rangers 1989-2015: Panama to Afghanistan by Leigh Neville
RRP: £14.99£11.47Written by an expert on modern Special Forces units and the operations they undertake, this book explains the evolution of the Rangers' missions in Panama, the first Gulf War, Somalia and the post 9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. It reveals the...