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Asquith by Stephen Bates 9781904950578
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Asquith'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Togo 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... -
We are the People: The rise of the AfD in Germany by Penny Bochum
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Recent years have seen a populist wave across the Western world, exposing the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy and driving the political agenda to the right. In 2017 the far-right populist... -
Secret Service: National security in an age of open information by Jonathan Evans
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'It was only two days after I arrived that I realised I had actually joined MI5. It did not exactly throw the doors wide and welcome scrutiny. The existence of the service was avowed but very little... -
Reflections: Interviews with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
Booksplease Price: £20.38The historian, wrote E. L. Doctorow, will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art... -
Brexit and the British: Who Do We Think We are? by Stephen Green
Booksplease Price: £19.58Whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about the sort of society we are? Why was the result a shock to so many?... -
Rommel: The End of a Legend by Ralf Georg Reuth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Erwin Rommel is the best-known German field commander of WWII. Repeatedly decorated for valour during the First World War, he would go on to lead the German Panzer divisions in France and North... -
A History of Tokyo by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Tokyo, which in Japanese means the "Eastern Capital," has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the city that is now Tokyo was a sprawling... -
Mount Sinai: A History of Travellers and Pilgrims by George Manginis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.06A mountain peak above the Monastery of St Catherine in Egypt, Mount Sinai is best known as the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments in the biblical Book of Exodus. This book brings this... -
Reluctant Meister: Germany and the New Europe by Stephen Green
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much... -
The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsacker and the German Bomb by Richard von Schirach
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an English country house, their conversations were... -
From the Sultan to Ataturk: Turkey by Andrew Mango
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23World War I sounded the death knell of empires. The forces of disintegration affected several empires simultaneously. To that extent they were impersonal. But prudent statesmen could delay the death... -
Callaghan by Harry Conroy 9781904950707
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Callaghan term in office was dominated by industrial unrest, culminating in the Winter of Discontent', laying the foundations for Margaret Thatcher's election victory in 1979Book InformationISBN... -
Afonso Costa: Portugal by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses 9781905791873
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Portugal's poor military performance in the First World War, notably in Africa, restricted Afonso Costa's (1871-1937) ability to secure his diplomatic aims which, in any case, were highly unrealistic... -
Homer's Mediterranean: A Travel Companion by Wolfgang Geisthovel 9781905791392
Booksplease Price: £13.71Geisthovel aims at discovering which countryside or rather the stories about it might have served as an inspiration for Homer. He gives a detailed and lively description of the individual steps of... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he... -
Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy: 2023 by Simon McDonald 9781913368906
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.22What should the future of British foreign policy look like? For too long successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain's military... -
The Consequences of the Peace: The Versailles Settlement: Its Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2015 by Alan Sharp 9781908323927
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61The Versailles Settlement does not enjoy a good international 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... -
Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need by Jonathan Shaw 9781908323811
RRP: £9,399.00Booksplease Price: £16.93The British government periodically publishes a Strategic Defence and Security Review, an appraisal of the armed forces that seeks to understand and prepare for the defense challenges that lie ahead... -
Hashemites: The Dream of Arabia by Robert McNamara 9781905791668
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of "Lawrence of Arabia" as portrayed in David Lean's... -
Spanish South America and the Treaty of Versailles by Michael Streeter 9781906598242
Booksplease Price: £19.27While Portuguese-speaking Brazil declared war on Germany, in the First World War, the rest of South America held back. In the end no other South American nation joined the fighting. But four -... -
Reluctant Meister - How Germany's Past is Shaping its European Future by Stephen Green 9781908323682
Booksplease Price: £28.68The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much... -
Asian Absences - Searching for Shangri-La by Wolfgang Buscher 9781906598761
Booksplease Price: £13.01Asian Absences is the contemplative and lyrical narrative of a traveller whose sensory and spiritual journey takes him from Copenhagen to Eastern Asia. En route, he passes through a feverish India... -
Bevan: Creator of the NHS by Francis Beckett 9781913368838
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The creation of the National Health Service was the most significant of the many reforms of the post-war Labour government. The man responsible was Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan. The son of a Welsh miner, he... -
Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor by Volker Ullrich 9781913368371
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War I. But as... -
Tito by Neil Barnett 9781913368418
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspirational partisan leader and scourge of the Germans during their occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World... -
Partition: How and Why Ireland was Divided by Ivan Gibbons 9781913368456
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The passion and emotion felt about the partition of Ireland has not dissipated in the 100 years since and, as the disorders occurred in Northern Ireland in the Spring 2021 show, it is as... -
The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City by Jack Brown 9781913368142
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The United Kingdom has never had an easy relationship with its capital. Far and away the wealthiest and most populous city in the country, London is the political, financial and cultural centre of... -
A Short History of Cambridge Richard Tames 9781914979163
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Both digestible and comprehensive A Short History of Cambridge takes the reader through the fascinating history of one of England's most famous towns, from the Middle Ages to the present day... -
Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist Rüdiger Görner 9781914979149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was an artist of his time, but he also stood out among his peers - not just because of his toweringphysical height but for his artistic range: he wrote plays and stories... -
Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile by Johannes Willms 9781905791545
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Helena was important for centuries only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India... -
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Brexit and the British: Who Do We Think We are? by Stephen Green 9781910376713 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.24Whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about the sort of society we are? Why was the result a shock to so many?... -
Cabinet's Finest Hour: The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 by David Owen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war... -
The Power of Judges by David Neuberger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The role of the Supreme Court has often been considered out of reach and incomprehensible to the vast majority of the public, while judges might be seen as a caste apart from society, remote to most... -
Truth in Public Life by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Truth in Public Life explores the difficulty in defining truth, its critical importance in civilised society and the challenges and threats to telling the truth in different public service settings. ... -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged,... -
Leon and Louise by Alex Capus
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the... -
These Islands: A Letter To Britain by Ali M. Ansari
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Visiting Italy in the months preceding the Scottish referendum of 2014, Ali Ansari was struck by the admiration of Italian colleagues for the liberalism of a state that would allow, and even... -
28 June by Alan Sharp
Booksplease Price: £37.11On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's...