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Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint -
The Fifties by David Halberstam 9780449909331
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam 9781401309725
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309725Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam 9781509852116
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.14Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations... -
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $17.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904445Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people... -
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71This is the story of one man's fight against a multibillion dollar colossus. A man who stood up for what was right, whatever the cost. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the... -
Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.57Five Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the "most significant half decade in the history of the game." The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of... -
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.53**The New York Times Bestseller****The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a... -
Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War by Gloria J. Emerson 9780393349337
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson's powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front,... -
Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey by John Douglas Marshall 9780295979496 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $8.01In his prize-winning memoir, Reconciliation Road, John Marshall recounts a road trip around America in search of the truth about his famous grandfather General S. L. A. (Slam) Marshall, author of... -
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of... -
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger 9780224076746 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of... -
Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind by David Wanczyk 9780804011891
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America's pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz,... -
Squash: A History of the Game James Zug 9781668089712
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Updated and with a new afterword from the author, this definitive history of squash by journalist James Zug is a must-read for squash lovers and sports history buffs alike, capturing the evolution of... -
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest 9780393325508
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Four-star generals who lead the military during wartime reign like proconsuls abroad in peacetime. Secretive Green Berets trained to hunt down terrorists are assigned to seduce ruthless authoritarian... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore 9780552150262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then... -
Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar by Dorothy Fall
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.00Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say... -
Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society by Tracy Daugherty
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.57Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. "Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its... -
Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by Christopher Goffard 9781982113254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.36A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard-including "Dirty John," the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring... -
It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness by Seth Wickersham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.17Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL's most dominant team, but also-and by far-the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness-and what were... -
The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck J R Moehringer 9781529394429
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.24NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York Times'Moehringer... -
The Fifties: An Underground History James R. Gaines 9781439101643
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11An "exciting and enlightening revisionist history" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary,... -
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9781847923653
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.47The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times): a riveting and timeless account of power,...