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Neville Chamberlain by Graham Macklin 9781904950622
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91With the agreement at Munich in 1938 he effectively abandoned Czechoslovakia, but immediately accelerated Britain's rearmament programme and the following year declared that Britain would defend... -
Perla by Carolina De Robertis 9781908323217
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60This is a coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic house... -
The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781913368852
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.58As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
Teammate Tuesday Volume IV: Another Year of Good Teammate Musings by Lance Loya 9781737088905
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737088905Author Lance LoyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint -
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus 9781907822032
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60In November 1913, three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Ru ter, were ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble... -
Macmillan by Francis Beckett 9781904950660
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardised his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons why the French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed... -
On the Back of and Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781914979323
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
Asquith by Stephen Bates 9781904950578
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Asquith's administration laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power struggle with the House of Lords. The budget of 1909 was vetoed by the hereditary upper... -
Admiral Togo: Nelson of the East by Jonathan Clements 9781906598624
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British... -
The Thorns We Inherit by Lindsey Hart 9798999034359
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $39.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798999034359Author Lindsey HartFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Blair by Mick Temple 9781904950738
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91As part of the series The 20 PM of the 20th Century this biography concentrates on Tony Blair's first three years in office.Book InformationISBN 9781904950738Author Mick TempleFormat PaperbackPage... -
Science in the Forest, Science in the Past by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
Booksplease Price: $31.99This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers to discuss the sciences and mathematics used in various Eastern, Western,... -
Damascus: Taste of a City by Rafik Schami
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.44Seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling and hearing - if you join Rafik Schami and his sister Marie Fadel on a stroll through their native Damascus, you will discover this Queen of the Orient with all... -
Unexpected Subjects - Intimate Partner Violence, Testimony, and the Law by Alessandra Gribaldo
Booksplease Price: $21.61Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women's words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices,... -
Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit: 2020 by Peter Gumbel
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel's grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. In2019, appalled not only by the result of the Brexit referendum but by the ugliness it exposed in... -
The Kingdom to Come: Thoughts on the Union Before and After the Scottish Referendum by Peter Hennessy
Booksplease Price: $22.05In The Kingdom to Come, Peter Hennessy records the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum in September 2014, its immediate aftermath and describes the enormous constitutional building site... -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing... -
Versailles 1919: A Centennial Perspective by Alan Sharp
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.76The Versailles Settlement does not enjoy a good reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have set the world on the path to a second... -
Trust in Public Life by Claire Gilbert
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.22A deep and thoughtful reflection on trust in the context of public life.Trust in Public Life is a collection of essays addressing the importance of trust in public life and how public servants can... -
The Immensity of Being Singular – Approaching Migrant Lives in São Paulo through Resonance by Simone Toji
Booksplease Price: $20.41In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself. Recovering Bronislaw Malinowski’s idea of the... -
Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Gustaf Mannerheim was one of the greatest figures of the 20th century. As a young Finnish officer he witnessed the coronation of the last Tsar and was decorated for bravery in the Russo-Japanese War... -
Along the Ganges by Ilija Trojanow 9781906598914
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The River Ganges has a thousand names. Hindu priests regard it as a sin to call her a river at all. She is a goddess, the source of the world, her waters holy and healing and still sold to Hindus all... -
Sir Robert Borden: Canada by Martin Thornton 9781905791842
Booksplease Price: $18.02Sir Robert Borden was Plenipotentiary of Canada at the Peace Conference. With the Versailles Treaty ratified by the Canadian Parliament, Borden largely believed his work was done. He retired as Prime... -
Churchill by Chris Wrigley 9781904950639
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Biography of the most famous Prime Minister of the 20th CenturyBook InformationISBN 9781904950639Author Chris WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
Lord Salisbury by Eric Midwinter 9781904950547
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9781904950547Author Eric MidwinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 1 -
Karl Renner - Austria by Jamie Bulloch 9781905791897
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870 1950) was prime minister of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lead the delegation to Paris,... -
Campbell-Bannerman by Roy Hattersley 9781904950561
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Roy Hattersley brings the politician's to this concise history of the life of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, widely considered to be an ineffective Prime Minister; he was in fact the liberal of the 20th... -
Wellington Koo: China by Jonathan Clements 9781905791699
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's International Settlement, Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985) became fluent in English during his postgraduate studies abroad - he got a PhD in Law... -
Vittorio Orlando: Italy by Spencer Di Scala 9781905791798
Booksplease Price: $24.86The Italian premier Vittorio Orlando came to Paris as one of the Big Four', yet in April 1919 walked out in one of the most dramatic crises of the Peace Conferences. Orlando's failure to win for... -
Fernando Ortiz - Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints Stephan Palmie 9781912808922
Booksplease Price: $41.67Cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar. Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) coined the term "transculturation" in 1940. This was an early case of theory from... -
Shostakovich by Brian Morton 9781913368432
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, he is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has... -
Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British-Russian Relations by David Owen 9781913368678
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Britain's relationship with Russia is surprisingly under-explored. When the two formed a pragmatic alliance and fought together at Navarino in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the British... -
The Princes' Islands: Istanbul's Archipelago by Joachim Sartorius 9781914982088
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes' Islands. An archipelago of unusual natural beauty, they have long been considered the maritime suburb of the imperial capital on the... -
Zeit-Haus1 by Leonard Klossner 9780692620250
RRP: $9.03Booksplease Price: $8.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692620250Author Leonard KlossnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint
Monet (Life & Times) by Matthias Arnold 9781904950004
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.17Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the...
Thatcher by Clare Beckett 9781904950714
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This title deals with Britain's first woman prime minister, friend of Ronald Reagan and the longest serving head of government in the 20th century (1979-90), but also the only one to be removed from...
The Noble Army: The Modern Martyrs of Westminster Abbey James Hawkey 9781914979019
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.72In July 1998, ten statues of martyrs of the twentieth century were unveiled surmounting the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey. Ten figures were identified from different continents and different...
The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery Anabel Loyd 9781913368975
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.30Who was Arminius Vambery? A poverty-stricken, Jewish auto-didact; a linguist, traveller, and writer; or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula's nemesis, and British secret agent? Vambery wrote...
The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine Yousef Bashir 9781912208807
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards...
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) George Orwell 9780648046615
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648046615Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint