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Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.35The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of... -
La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward 9780140130959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $4.70Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton 9781784160791 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.78"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a... -
The Marches by Rory Stewart
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.50Rory Stewart explores his love for the UK in this account of history, memory and landscape as he traverses the the borderlands between England and Scotland.'This beautifully written book is a... -
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich.As it is... -
George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $8.01The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackFor a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact... -
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin 9780141010229
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.24Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin... -
A Soldier's Way: The Number One International Bestselling Autobiography by Colin Powell 9780099439936 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $5.30'The man who might have been America's first Black president' Guardian'An exemplary patriot . . . he helped pave the way for so many who would follow' Barack ObamaTHE #1 INTERNATIONAL... -
The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives by David Craig 9781847945709 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $5.09In this EU referendum year, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name. It has been estimated that the EU costs us around GBP1,000 billion a year - an... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate... -
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who... -
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details... -
More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 by Tony Benn 9780099517054 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $5.71When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.36'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.24Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963 Robert Dallek 9780141976587
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.63Updated edition of the authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened archives, prize-winning historian Robert Dallek reveals more... -
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Paul Kennedy's The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government is the extraordinary story of the UN - its creation, the threats it has faced, and the possibilities it... -
The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher Duggan
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.77The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy... -
Decision Points George W. Bush 9780753539965
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.72Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining... -
Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules by Philippe Sands
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political agenda overnight, forcing Tony... -
Family and Kinship in East London by Michael Young
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Although housing in Bethnal Green was often appalling, a complex network of relatives - families of three generations held together by the powerful mother-daughter bond at the centre - was always... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson 9780140445534
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won... -
Greenmantle by John Buchan 9780141035840
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes:... -
Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Quick Guide to Britain's Biggest Issue by Ian Dunt 9780995497825 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $3.80'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' - NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR 'Compact and easily digestible. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit... -
The Last Diaries by Alan Clark 9780753816950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.27'With his Diaries, he has written himself into the life of our times with a panache and candour that ranks him next to Boswell or Pepys' The TimesThe first two volumes of Alan Clark's were... -
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted... -
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil... -
Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by... -
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.63In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a... -
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory... -
Gorgias by Plato 9780140449044
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.04Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a... -
Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Quick Guide to Britain's Biggest Issue by Ian Dunt 9780995497825
Booksplease Price: $16.98'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' - NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR 'Compact and easily digestible. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit... -
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy 9780140281491
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.14Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history,... -
Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2019 by Tim Benson 9781786331977 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $3.96A hilarious companion to the year's political turmoil, featuring the work of Martin Rowson, Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Nicola Jennings and many more . . . 2019 was the year of Brexit, obviously. But... -
Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first... -
I Sank The Bismarck by John Moffat 9780552159487 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $5.42In the early hours of the 27th of May, 1941, the German warship Bismarck - scourge of the Atlantic ocean - was sailing towards a fateful encounter. Two days previously, Prime Minister Winston...