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Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.2370th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year'... -
Scotland: A Concise History by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'The Scots', said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, 'have not suffered above two kings to die in their beds these two hundred years.' He may have exaggerated, but undeniably Scotland... -
A Person From England by Fitzroy Maclean 9781448205240
Booksplease Price: £18.48First published in 1958, A Person From England tells of how the legendary cities of Turkestan - Merv, Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand - have long exerted a romantic fascination upon Western ... -
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny 9780140261011
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this... -
Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £11.78The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in... -
Nursing at the Frontline: A WW2 Diary from North Africa and Italy Graham Bandy 9781399088428
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23About 10 years ago a chance encounter led Bandy to be entrusted with a treasure trove of wartime notes, photos, paintings and ephemera that coalesced themselves into the memoirs of a WW2 RAF Nursing... -
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £4.63For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy... -
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing Guy Woodward 9780198973423
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £89.54During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a... -
St Petersburg: A Traveller's Reader by Laurence Kelly
Booksplease Price: £20.70Featuring a vivid selection from biographies, novels, letters, poems, diaries and memoirs, this volume traces the story of St Petersburg from earliest times. Through these pieces, readers can observe... -
When Dreams Collide: Travels in Yugoslavia with Rebecca West by Nicholas Allan 9781910533635
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia. Shedding the received knowledge of headlines, he explores the splintered co-evolution of these... -
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved... -
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 19381945 by Imre Rochlitz
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood...