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The Midnight Swimmer by Edward Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A brilliant Cuban Missile Crisis spy thriller by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre' 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le... -
Slow Train to Guantanamo Peter Millar 9781908129505
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the... -
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters Susan Page 9781982197933
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the... -
Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy by James H Johnston
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy... -
Daring to Fly: The TV star on facing fear and finding joy on a deadline Lisa Millar 9780733647185
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82'The utterly inspirational story behind one of our country's most superb journalists. To have played even the tiniest of roles in helping to ignite Lisa's early fire for journalism gives me more joy... -
Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba by Keith Bolender
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban... -
Rare Watches: Explore the World's Most Exquisite Timepieces Paul Miquel 9781840917833
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.30Forewords by Jean-Claude Biver (CEO of Tag Heuer) and Aurel Bacs (Christie's and Phillips auctioneers).This breathtaking book explores more than 50 of the rarest watches in the world, including... -
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro (Series Tie-In) by Thomas Maier 9781510778900
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50**SOON TO BE A MINI-SERIES FROM PARAMOUNT+ IN SPRING 2024** From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex, Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and... -
Red Star Over the Third World Vijay Prashad 9780745339665
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.53From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow... -
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro by Thomas Maier 9781510763265
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex, Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters, based on the never-before-released JFK Files.From Vegas to... -
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism A.M. Gittlitz 9780745340777
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.61Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of... -
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.41A New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of... -
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King,... -
JFK – The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson 9781789467376
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The killing of US President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, sent a shockwave around the world. The charismatic young Democrat was seen as a beacon of hope in the West, but his... -
Ready For Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokey Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.64From the prison farms and lynch mobs of Mississippi to the political intrigue of the African liberation wars, Stokely Carmichael's remarkable life story covers the full range of the black liberation... -
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays by Gay Talese
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Gay Talese is the father... -
Cuba Diaries by Isadora Tattlin 9780553824896
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The face of modern-day Cuba is in many respects still frozen in the 1950s, with its classic American cars, horse-drawn carriages and colonial Spanish architecture. In a country where taxi drivers... -
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JFK: The Second Plot by Matthew Smith 9781840185010 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.61A tale of conspiracy and corruption-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963 remains one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. At the centre of the puzzle... -
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur 9780241982303 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.91From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King,... -
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille 9781501199011
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199011Author Nelson DeMilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68From award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba: A History is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas's acclaimed book... -
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 by Nicholas Griffin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.75In the tradition of The Wire, the "utterly absorbing" (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America's bustling cities-rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning... -
Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman by Will Grant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben... -
Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla by Alexandra Diaz 9781534495418
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Two starred reviews! "Perfect for fans of Margarita Engle and impactful historical fiction" (School Library Journal, starred review), this "evocative and transportive" (Kirkus Reviews, starred... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr. Ada Ferrer
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.85WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Che by Antonio Veciana
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Explosive account of the intrigue, hit men, and Cuban exiles in the CIA's war to destroy Fidel Castro Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA's decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castor's Gulag by Armando Valladares 9781893554191
Booksplease Price: £13.51"Against All Hope" is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of... -
Castro's Curveball by Tim Wendel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past-and beckons him and his grown daughter on a... -
Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World by Simon Hall 9780571367160
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.47'A colourful and enjoyable written account.' THE TIMES'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMANThe gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist... -
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson 9780571331703
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.65Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally famed icon, as revered as he is... -
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 by Max Hastings 9780062980175
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062980175Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint < -
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Alvarez, one of the most exciting young... -
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy 9781416526872
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life... -
Bay of Pigs: CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961 by Phil Carradice 9781526728296
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British... -
Agnostic: Poems by Christopher Buckley 9780899241685
Booksplease Price: £14.34Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley's new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as... -
Confidante of Tyrants: The Story of the American Woman Trusted by the Us's Biggest Enemies by Eva Golinger 9781780264677
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad, cocktails with Putin and dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castro wooed me with flowers, perfume and cigars. Ahmadinejad told me he loved me... -
The Attraction of Cuba by Chris Hilton 9781915023124
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50CHRIS HILTON WENT TO HAVANA in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England-and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers,... -
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Toibin, Observer'We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of... -
In the dark with my dress on fire: My life in Cape Town, London, Havana and home again by Blanche La Guma 9781770099227
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.40In the Dark with My Dress on Fire is the remarkable life story of Blanche La Guma, a South African woman who dedicated her life to ending apartheid through her various roles as professional nurse,...