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Call Me Gorgeous! Giles Milton 9781914912054
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Call Me Gorgeous is a fun, stylish book about a very, very strange creature. It has a porcupine's spines and a crocodile's teeth, a chameleon's tail, and a cockerel's feet. What on earth could it... -
Fascinating Footnotes From History Giles Milton 9781473624993
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining' Matthew Redhead, The... -
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war came, for civilians on all sides,... -
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as... -
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton 9781250778253
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250778253Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint < -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious... -
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton 9781529398557
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like... -
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance Giles Milton 9780340837870
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one... -
Russian Roulette: How British Spies Defeated Lenin Giles Milton 9781444737042
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' THE TIMESIN 1917, AN ECCENTRIC BAND OF BRITISH SPIES IS SMUGGLED INTO NEWLY SOVIET RUSSIA.Their goal is to defeat Lenin's plan to destroy... -
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Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton 9780340794685 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of... -
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in... -
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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton 9780340819456 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as... -
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen... -
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton 9781250119032
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250119032Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint < -
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton 9780340696767
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book,... -
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton 9781250078759
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078759Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Tom Phillips 9781472259059
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson'F*cking brilliant' Sarah KnightAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND... -
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton 9780340696767 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.03THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book,... -
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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton 9781444798982 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $6.79'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in... -
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton 9781250078773
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078773Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
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Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton 9780340748824 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen... -
Codebreakers and Spies: How British Intelligence and Special Operations Won WWII Michael Smith 9780233006024
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Codebreakers and Spies tells the astonishing story of how Britain's intelligence operatives, experts and special operations teams contributed to the Allies' victory in the Second World War. The work... -
Tornado Down: The Centenary Collection by John Nichol 9781405937573 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.03In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic... -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game Andrew Hodges 9781784700089
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.69The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and... -
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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges 9781784700089 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.15The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the... -
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy BormanCrusading queens, queens in rebellion... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero Richard Bath 9781845967086
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of... -
Hanes Cymru (A History of Wales in Welsh) by John Davies
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a diwylliannol y rhan honno o'r byd y daethpwyd i'w hadnabod fel Cymru. Dyma'r... -
Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend by Martin Dillon
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British... -
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Fire Strike 7/9 by Paul Grahame 9780091938086 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.95'Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like one of the gods - unleashing pure hellfire, death and destruction' - Duncan FalconerMeet Sergeant... -
Poppet by Dick King-Smith
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22Poppet is a little African elephant. When he is born, his mother warns him against mice because they run up elephants' trunks. Poppet spends some time asking various creatures if they are mice and... -
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier Diana Preston 9780552772105
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for... -
Most Secret War by R.V. Jones
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological... -
The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain... -
Bomber County by Daniel Swift 9780141036991
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71One night in June 1943 James Swift, along with the Lancaster bomber he piloted, vanished. In Bomber County, his grandson Daniel seeks to discover what happened. At the same time he tries to... -
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Arnhem: The Battle for Survival by John Nichol 9780141048352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.15Arnhem by John Nichol and Tony Rennell is an absolutely gripping narrative packed with action and heroic tales of courage.'Riveting ... reveals the ice-cool courage of British troops trapped in the... -
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners... -
Fire Strike 7/9 by Paul Grahame
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like one of the gods - unleashing pure hellfire, death and destruction' - Duncan FalconerMeet Sergeant...