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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.01A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play. Marozzi travelled in... -
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Pushkin by T. J. Binyon 9780006373384 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $3.23A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). ... -
Henry V: The Conscience of a King by Malcolm Vale
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old... -
Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen John Hardman 9780300260946
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen"Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye of her beholder . ... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Patrick Joyce 9780141998732
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPatrick Joyce is Emeritus Professor of History at Manchester University, and one of the leading social... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany,... -
Book 2 by Lady Hale 9781847926579
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81'A principled, timely and vital reminder of why justice matters' PHILIPPE SANDS'Accessible, forensic and breathtakingly humane' SHAMI CHAKRABARTITold through captivating real cases in real courts,... -
The War Against the Past: Why The West Must Fight For Its History by Frank Furedi (University of Kent) 9781509576432
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.91A war is being waged against the Past. Whether it's toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past... -
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300276114
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86The first history of childhood in Tudor England "Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites us to embrace a new way of engaging... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780141991474
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August... -
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley 9781324092384
Booksplease Price: $20.85A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted... -
The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War by James Q. Whitman 9780674416871
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $33.48Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $37.98The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.41A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ... -
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick 9781474613750
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondents of our world - eloquent, enlightening, exhilarating'... -
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma 9780691156057
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.09Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized...