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William Hughes: Australia Carl Bridge (University of New England) 9781905791903
Booksplease Price: £27.84The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country's sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid combat... -
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: £10.25Ninety 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... -
Ionel Bratianu: Romania by Keith Hitchins 9781905791767
Booksplease Price: £19.28At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful... -
Goethe by Peter Boerner 9781908323514
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo... -
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914 by David Owen 9781908323989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23December 1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters into secret talks with the French about sending British forces to their aid in the event of a German attack. The details were only revealed to the... -
In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives by Barnaby Rogerson 9781912208784
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always... -
The Words of My Father by Yousef Bashir 9781912208173
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In 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... -
Benes and Masaryk: Czechoslovakia by Peter Neville 9781905791729
Booksplease Price: £19.28Of even greater importance for Hungary's future were the activities of the champions of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks. Tomas Masaryk, a Czech professor of philosophy and a future leader... -
Aleksandur Stanboliiski: Bulgaria - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by R. J. Crampton 9781905791774
Booksplease Price: £19.24Aleksandur Stamboliiski was one of the most original politicians of the 20th century. His tragedy was that he came to power at the end of the First World War in which Bulgaria had been defeated. It... -
South East Asia by Andrew Dalby 9781905791859
Booksplease Price: £19.28Southeast Asia needs to be dealt with as a whole, because, although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries... -
Georges Clemenceau: France by David Robin Watson 9781905791606
Booksplease Price: £19.28The Anglo-Saxon view of Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) is based on John Maynard Keynes' misjudged caricature, that he had imposed a treaty that was harsh and oppressive of Germany. French critics'... -
Ignacy Paderewski: Poland by Anita Prazmowska 9781905791705
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The thirteenth of President Wilson's Fourteen Points of 1918 read: 'An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations,... -
Crossing Jerusalem: Journeys at the Centre of the World's Trouble by Nicholas Woodsworth 9781906598822
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Jerusalem is not an ordinary city and Crossing Jerusalem is not a standard telling of a city's story. While the author himself is deeply skeptical of religion, this book is both a portrait of a... -
Leonard Cohen by Jeffrey Lewis 9781913368920
Booksplease Price: £15.98The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He... -
Attlee by David Howell 9781904950646
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually... -
Could it Happen Here?: The Day a Prime Minister Refuses to Resign Peter Hennessy 9781914979187
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In Could It Happen Here?, Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick pose the question of whether the UK's constitution sufficiently protects our democracy against an authoritarian takeover. Put simply, they... -
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile Mohammad Tarbush 9781914979200
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family are forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that led to the... -
Defence and the UK Constitution Nigel D. White 9781914979217
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Defence and security policy lies at the heart of the British state, but can appear entirely untrammelled by the constitution. In fact, when political and military leaders exercise their executive... -
Tito by Neil Barnett 9781904950318
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.39This title is about an inspirational partisan leader, doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow's side, and a leading light in the Non Aligned Movement. The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country... -
The Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of Parliament by Emma Crewe 9781910376072
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Westminster Parliament is worth closer scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but on intellectual grounds because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of politics. Based on... -
Making the Weather: Six Politicians That Made Modern Britain Vernon Bogdanor 9781914979330
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized influence on the political life of the UK; an influence greater than that of most prime ministers. Vernon... -
Casement Angus Mitchell 9781914979415
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Since his execution for high treason in 1916, Roger Casement has been lauded for his humanitarian activism in Africa and the Amazon. His life, however, has remained obscured behind speculation about... -
Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire by Rajmohan Gandhi 9781906598815
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53This monumental biography, written by Gandhi's grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of his remarkable life, the development of his beliefs, his political campaigns and his... -
Damascus: Taste of a City by Rafik Schami
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Seeing, 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... -
Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit: 2020 by Peter Gumbel
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In 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: £17.09In 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51When 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.99The 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37A 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... -
Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Gustaf 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The 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: £13.97Sir 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Biography of the most famous Prime Minister of the 20th CenturyBook InformationISBN 9781904950639Author Chris WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint