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Reflections: Interviews with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
Booksplease Price: £20.28The 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: £20.31Whatever 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: £7.73Tokyo, 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: £16.98A 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
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Geisthovel 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: £20.12What 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: £16.86The 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: £20.01While 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: £28.56The 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
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Asian 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
Booksplease Price: £17.92The 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... -
Who Killed Jules Crevaux?: Murder in the Bolivian Chaco by Isabelle Combès 9781912808564
Booksplease Price: £21.05The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous perspective. In 1882, the celebrated French explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew were killed by... -
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... -
Convergence by Hope Hetterley 9798230806042
Booksplease Price: £13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230806042Author Hope HetterleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jocks HausPublisher Jocks... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781922491626
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922491626Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Haus EditionsPublisher... -
Churchill by Sebastian Haffner 9781904341079
Booksplease Price: £13.17When Churchill died, one might have thought that it was not a man who was being borne to his grave, but British history itself - a resplendent, fortunate history whose last illustrious chapter... -
Science in the Forest, Science in the Past by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
Booksplease Price: £24.80This 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: £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: £17.01In 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... -
The Immensity of Being Singular – Approaching Migrant Lives in São Paulo through Resonance by Simone Toji
Booksplease Price: £15.82In 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: £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...