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Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.91From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he... -
The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these... -
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
Booksplease Price: £11.78In "Lincoln", acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's 16th president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument... -
A Capital Calamity by Fred Kaplan 9781939282545
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939282545Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint -
Lincoln and the Abolitionists by Fred Kaplan 9780062440020
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062440020Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan 9780470602034
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470602034Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan 9780061915420
Booksplease Price: £15.52Drawing on a trove of unpublished archival material to trace Adams’ evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his brilliant years as Secretary of State to his time in the White... -
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476763262Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.49As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.In this... -
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography by Mr Fred Kaplan 9781400095278
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095278Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint -
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war-and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises-from... -
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan 9781451642650
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451642650Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex Benjamin Wilson 9780674976085
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92An eye-opening reconsideration of the Cold War arms control movement, showing how scientists who presented themselves as independent-minded opponents of the arms race in fact functioned as agents of... -
Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence Robert L. Taylor 9780813344393
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the 'process' of... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9780393264876
Booksplease Price: £22.53"For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary... -
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 9780393962925
Booksplease Price: £13.56The editor has corrected printers' errors and annotated unfamiliar terms and allusions. Three illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliver's London accompany the text. "Backgrounds and... -
The Papers of Henry Clay: Secretary of State, January 1, 1828-March 4, 1829 by Henry Clay
Booksplease Price: £79.30Since Abraham Lincoln's death, generations of Americans have studied his life, presidency, and leadership, often remaking him into a figure suited to the needs and interests of their own time. This... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9780393284386
Booksplease Price: £20.22The 1854 text, edited by Sylvere Monod, is accompanied here by explanatory footnotes. Contextual pieces by critics and theorists of Dickens' time bring readers examples of their views on... -
The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence by James M. McCormick 9781442275362
Booksplease Price: £61.04The seventh edition of this leading reader for courses in American foreign policy offers students an up-to-date, highly accessible introduction to the broad array of domestic factors influencing U.S... -
On Wars Michael Mann 9780300281965
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But... -
Can Intervention Work? by Rory Stewart
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.19"A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions" (Washington Post), Can Intervention Work? distills Rory Stewart's (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus's... -
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton by Shari Benstock 9780292702745
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.51The first new biography of America's foremost woman of letters in twenty years, No Gifts from Chance presents an Edith Wharton for our times. Far from the emotionally withdrawn and neurasthenic... -
On Strategists and Strategy: Collected Essays, 2014-2024 Lawrence Freedman 9780197814659
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.59A distinctive collection of essays capturing Lawrence Freedman's insightful analysis across war, strategy, and foreign policy and providing a unique view of the key thinkers that shaped history. ... -
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality by Sheldon M. Stern
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.32This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two... -
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality by Sheldon M. Stern 9780804783767
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two... -
Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy by Peter L. Bergen 9781107663381
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.42Drones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts. Drones have captured the public imagination, partly because they project lethal force in a manner that challenges... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.60A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ...