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American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
RRP: €20.22€14.61The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: €37.47€26.58In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To... -
The Second World War David Horner 9781472833938
RRP: €35.70€26.83Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gives readers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of history's greatest conflict. The period... -
White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties Jacky Hyams 9781782190141
RRP: €9.51€6.89The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted girl in search of adventure and independence. An incredible explosion of pop music, fashion and youth culture... -
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
RRP: €11.89€8.46This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life. But while Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments were anything but. Georgina started her career as a... -
Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China by John Delury 9781501765971
RRP: €33.31€28.73Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity-and futility-of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In... -
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover the ultimate in classic 1930s travel writing.'A writer of breathtaking prose - prose whose sensuous, chiselled beauty has cast its spell on English travel writing ever since' William Dalrymple In 1933, the delightfully eccentric, Robert Byron... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets Carles Vinas 9780745347448
RRP: €17.84€11.66Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie
RRP: €15.46€10.09Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the... -
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein 9781476782423
RRP: €17.84€12.33In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's... -
Greater Manchester Buses 1986-2006 by Keith A. Jenkinson
RRP: €19.03€12.91Manchester and its surrounds, such as Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham and Stockport, have always been a haven for bus enthusiasts, with a wide variety of operators and liveries to be seen. Deregulation in 1986 changed the scene dramatically with the... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: €10.70€7.68'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard... -
Evita: The Life of Eva Perón by Jill Hedges 9781350452022
RRP: €17.84€13.98Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and... -
The Scottish Region in the 1970s and 1980s by Andy Gibbs 9781445681894
RRP: €19.03€12.91Scotland has always been an attractive destination for rail enthusiasts - a place with picturesque scenery and a variety of traction scattered across the country, with the BR Blue era offering a wonderful juxtaposition between the grit of the hardworking... -
Alvis Cars 1946-1967: The Post-War Years by John Fox
RRP: €19.03€12.91The Alvis company of Coventry were motor and aero engineers who made some of the finest motor cars during the period 1920 to 1967, when car production stopped. There were no independent coachbuilders left and mass production was not for Alvis. Total... -
Camp 4 by Steve Roper 9780898865875
RRP: €19.03€15.89In the 1960's, California's Yosemite Valley was the centre of the rock-climbing universe. Young nonconformists -- many of them the finest rock climbers in the world -- channelled their energy toward the largely untouched walls and cracks. Soon climbers... -
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken 9780805065893
RRP: €35.69€23.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065893Author Gregg HerkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore 9780241324745
RRP: €41.65€30.81Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES,... -
Abandon Ship: The Real Story of the Sinkings in the Falklands War by Dr Paul Brown
RRP: €23.80€17.48AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021 This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982. When Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands in April 1982, the British... -
The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 by Zara Steiner
RRP: €63.07€54.78The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: €13.08€9.25Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... -
John Jenkins - The Reluctant Revolutionary? - Authorised Biography of the Mastermind Behind the Sixties Welsh Bombing Campaign Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631148
RRP: €15.46€14.49Authorised biography of Welsh nationalist and activist John Barnard Jenkins, one of the most iconic figures in recent Welsh history. The leader of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (MAC), he masterminded their 1960s bombing campaign protesting British state... -
The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000 by Diarmaid Ferriter
RRP: €20.22€15.09A ground-breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the most ambitious scale by a brilliant young historian. It is significant that it begins in 1900 and ends in 2000 - most accounts have begun in 1912 or 1922 and largely... -
Spitfire!: The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron by Dilip Sarkar 9781526732811
€46.76As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, the commander of 19 Squadron, based at Fowlmere - and... -
The Last Kiss: The Story of Ethel Rosenberg - Wife, Mother, Communist and Spy by Anne Sebba 9780297871002 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€2.73"Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP"Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS"A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history" HADLEY FREEMAN"I don't think... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim Wagner
€15.86A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre"Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost minute-by-minute focus. . . . Mr. Wagner's achievement is... -
McDonalds: Behind The Arches by John F. Love
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553347593Author John F. LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
RRP: €11.89€7.76The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in... -
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy by Roy Strong
RRP: €29.75€20.03The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.What do people talk most about? A Coronation.What is delightful to have passed? A... -
Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler
RRP: €22.60€16.54South African Special Forces, known as the 'Recces', are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they... -
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction by Elleke Boehmer 9780192893444
RRP: €10.70€7.68Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic... -
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley
RRP: €15.46€13.64The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful... -
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
RRP: €15.46€13.08Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? "Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."-President Barack Obama ... -
World War Two: A graphic account of the greatest and most terrible event in human history by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: €11.89€9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187820Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind by Mahdi Obeidi 9780471679653
€22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471679653Author Mahdi ObeidiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 454g -
The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: €15.46€10.82THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: €22.60€16.20The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated... -
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps by Dan Healey 9780300187137
RRP: €35.70€29.57A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for... -
Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank?: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy by Steve Hall
RRP: €29.75€19.33The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 - an...