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The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Richard J. Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany explores how the First World War, the Weimar Republic and the Great Depression paved the... -
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster shows how Germany rushed... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable... -
Why We Read by 9781802060959
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give... -
Democracy on the Road by Ruchir Sharma 9780241388075
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92On the eve of a landmark general election, Ruchir Sharma offers an unrivalled portrait of how India and its democracy work, drawn from his two decades on the road chasing election campaigns across... -
Gallipoli by L. A. Carlyon
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. Brief by his standards, but essentially heroic. Shakespeare might have... -
Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History by Harold James
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures,... -
The Death of the Past by John Harold Plumb 9781403906984
Booksplease Price: £31.52In this book, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has, since the beginning of recorded time, moulded the past to give sanction to their institutions of government, their social structure... -
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of... -
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson 9780349140438
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.92'This is a riveting book, with as much to say about the transformation of modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject' - Telegraph Based on more than... -
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.43From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs'... -
My Dear Ones: One Family and the Holocaust - A Story of Enduring Hope and Love by Jonathan Wittenberg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam 9781804183182
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.00'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers Simon Akam 9781804188866
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10FEATURING BRAND NEW UPDATED CONTENT EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION 'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink'Fascinating' - Joe Moran'A very lovely book' - Kate MosseBestselling and award-winning authors share the... -
Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life by Gillian Tett
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10The Times and Financial Times Book of the YearA revelatory model that explains how we buy, sell, work and live.'Absolutely brilliant.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow___Meet the... -
1914-1918: The History of the First World War by David Stevenson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.991914-1918, David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflictIn the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass... -
Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How To Use It Better by Claudia Hammond 9781782112068
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Why is it good to be grumpy if you want to avoid getting ripped off? Why do we think coins are bigger than they really are?Why is it a mistake to choose the same lottery numbers every week? Join... -
History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives by Tony Taylor 9781617355264
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.06The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for... -
History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives by Tony Taylor 9781617355271
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for... -
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Engrossing' Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the... -
Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday TimesThe Allied victory in 1945 - though... -
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa by David E. Murphy 9780300119817
Booksplease Price: £35.22"A riveting account of one of history's greatest blunders."-William L. O'Neill, The New Leader This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion... -
Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain by John Ferejohn 9781631491603
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.34Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. Considering the question of whether democracy is dependent on war, two celebrated political scientists trace the... -
The West Versus the Rest and The Myth of Western Exceptionalism by Imad A. Moosa 9783031265594
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20In this book, the author attempts to debunk some myths about Western exceptionalism and to evaluate critically the characteristics that make the West superior to the Rest. The author suggests that... -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help... -
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp 9781529945409
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Sunday Times and #1 New York Times Bestseller‘The Technological Republic is far too important to ignore’ Times Literary SupplementSilicon Valley’s brightest minds once collaborated with... -
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh 9780330487573
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of... -
Future Tense: Reflections on my Troubled Land by Tony Leon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'Tony Leon is not only an experienced politician but also a talented writer, and this book is the highly readable result of that combination.' - Lord William Hague, former British Foreign Secretary... -
The Origins of the Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war.One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who... -
The Scottish Nation: A Modern History by T. M. Devine
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR and NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from the... -
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97'Gripping ... revelatory ... unrivalled' Tom Holland, New Statesman'From Mosul to Melbourne, from Cairo to Tokyo, from London to Oslo, from Connecticut to California: Graeme Wood's quest to... -
Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography by Donald Moggridge 9780415127110
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £78.59Based on an intimate knowledge of the subject and his environment, this biography of the most influential economist of the twentieth century traces Keynes' career on all its many levels. From... -
Fifty Key Thinkers on History by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of... -
Fifty Key Thinkers on History by Marnie Hughes-Warrington 9780415703598
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of... -
The Adam Smith Review Volume 6 by Fonna Forman-Barzilai 9781138377189
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well-recognized but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a refereed annual... -
Historians by Daniel Snowman 9781137587312
Booksplease Price: £26.60History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue... -
Historians by Daniel Snowman 9781403988058
Booksplease Price: £43.34History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future Ian Morris 9781846682087
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.29Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times. No figure in twentieth century... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his...