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Cabinet's Finest Hour: The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 by David Owen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war... -
The Power of Judges by David Neuberger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The role of the Supreme Court has often been considered out of reach and incomprehensible to the vast majority of the public, while judges might be seen as a caste apart from society, remote to most... -
Truth in Public Life by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Truth in Public Life explores the difficulty in defining truth, its critical importance in civilised society and the challenges and threats to telling the truth in different public service settings. ... -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged,... -
Leon and Louise by Alex Capus
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the... -
These Islands: A Letter To Britain by Ali M. Ansari
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Visiting Italy in the months preceding the Scottish referendum of 2014, Ali Ansari was struck by the admiration of Italian colleagues for the liberalism of a state that would allow, and even... -
28 June by Alan Sharp
Booksplease Price: £37.11On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's... -
Ionel Bratianu: Romania by Keith Hitchins 9781905791767
Booksplease Price: £19.89At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful... -
Goethe by Peter Boerner 9781908323514
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo... -
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914 by David Owen 9781908323989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23December 1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters into secret talks with the French about sending British forces to their aid in the event of a German attack. The details were only revealed to the... -
In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives by Barnaby Rogerson 9781912208784
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always... -
The Words of My Father by Yousef Bashir 9781912208173
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards... -
Benes and Masaryk: Czechoslovakia by Peter Neville 9781905791729
Booksplease Price: £19.89Of even greater importance for Hungary's future were the activities of the champions of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks. Tomas Masaryk, a Czech professor of philosophy and a future leader... -
Aleksandur Stanboliiski: Bulgaria - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by R. J. Crampton 9781905791774
Booksplease Price: £19.88Aleksandur Stamboliiski was one of the most original politicians of the 20th century. His tragedy was that he came to power at the end of the First World War in which Bulgaria had been defeated. It... -
South East Asia by Andrew Dalby 9781905791859
Booksplease Price: £19.89Southeast Asia needs to be dealt with as a whole, because, although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries... -
Georges Clemenceau: France by David Robin Watson 9781905791606
Booksplease Price: £19.89The Anglo-Saxon view of Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) is based on John Maynard Keynes' misjudged caricature, that he had imposed a treaty that was harsh and oppressive of Germany. French critics'... -
Ignacy Paderewski: Poland by Anita Prazmowska 9781905791705
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The thirteenth of President Wilson's Fourteen Points of 1918 read: 'An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations,... -
Crossing Jerusalem: Journeys at the Centre of the World's Trouble by Nicholas Woodsworth 9781906598822
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Jerusalem is not an ordinary city and Crossing Jerusalem is not a standard telling of a city's story. While the author himself is deeply skeptical of religion, this book is both a portrait of a... -
Leonard Cohen by Jeffrey Lewis 9781913368920
Booksplease Price: £16.40The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He... -
Attlee by David Howell 9781904950646
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually... -
In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig Rüdiger Görner 9781914979101
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.39In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and delves into his considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the... -
Could it Happen Here?: The Day a Prime Minister Refuses to Resign Peter Hennessy 9781914979187
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In Could It Happen Here?, Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick pose the question of whether the UK's constitution sufficiently protects our democracy against an authoritarian takeover. Put simply, they... -
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile Mohammad Tarbush 9781914979200
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family are forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that led to the... -
Defence and the UK Constitution Nigel D. White 9781914979217
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Defence and security policy lies at the heart of the British state, but can appear entirely untrammelled by the constitution. In fact, when political and military leaders exercise their executive... -
Tito by Neil Barnett 9781904950318
Booksplease Price: £17.00This title is about an inspirational partisan leader, doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow's side, and a leading light in the Non Aligned Movement. The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country... -
The Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of Parliament by Emma Crewe 9781910376072
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Westminster Parliament is worth closer scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but on intellectual grounds because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of politics. Based on... -
Making the Weather: Six Politicians That Made Modern Britain Vernon Bogdanor 9781914979330
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized influence on the political life of the UK; an influence greater than that of most prime ministers. Vernon... -
Casement Angus Mitchell 9781914979415
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Since his execution for high treason in 1916, Roger Casement has been lauded for his humanitarian activism in Africa and the Amazon. His life, however, has remained obscured behind speculation about... -
Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire by Rajmohan Gandhi 9781906598815
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53This monumental biography, written by Gandhi's grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of his remarkable life, the development of his beliefs, his political campaigns and his... -
An Extraordinary Scandal: The Westminster Expenses Crisis and Why it Still Matters by Emma Crewe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Featuring interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the... -
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his... -
China Rediscovered: The Benaki Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics by George Manginis
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91This richly illustrated book showcases a previously unseen and virtually unknown historical collection of Chinese ceramics, formed in the early twentieth century by George Eumorfopoulos, a pivotal... -
The Vitality of Democracy Gisela Stuart 9781913368517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it work for everyone. If we don't want to have things imposed upon us, then government by the people and... -
Bealport: A Novel of a Town Jeffrey Lewis 9781912208791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05An old shoe factory in a costal New England town is up for sale again. When a private equity mogul with a fondness for the factory's shoes buys it, he sets in motion a story with profound... -
A Love Affair with Europe: The Case for a European Future by Giles Radice
Booksplease Price: £18.69From his earliest childhood, Europe has been close to Giles Radice's heart. His paternal great-great grandfather, an Italian nationalist, was fortunate enough to come to Britain in 1821 as a... -
Drawing the Line: The Irish Border in British Politics by Ivan Gibbons
Booksplease Price: £17.97Although it is approaching a century in existence, the Irish border is currently one of the most topical issues in British politics. For most of its existence, the border rarely impinged on the... -
Churchill's Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight by Peter Clark
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £5.78More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book, however, is not merely... -
No 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Behind the world's most iconic front door lies the core of British political power: the Prime Minister's home and office. Designed over three centuries ago as an ordinary residence, 10 Downing... -
The Responsibilities of Democracy by Nick Clegg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Democracy operates on consent. That means politicians have to argue their causes and win consensus. But democracy has its flaws, not least in the lack of efficiency in the decision-making process...