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Playing the Game by Ian Buruma 9780374526337
RRP: $49.98Booksplease Price: $35.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526337Author Ian BurumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint -
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah Ian Buruma 9780300281866
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time "An elegant, relevant biography of a vital... -
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma
RRP: $40.46Booksplease Price: $24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972863Author Ian BurumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few... -
The China Lover: A Novel by Ian Buruma 9780143116080
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $55.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939–1945 by Ian Buruma 9781805462897
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $40.27In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with... -
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at... -
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture Ian Buruma 9781843549628
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both 'as they... -
Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Summer 2025 by Ian Buruma 9798985430295
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $23.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma 9780691156057
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $27.85Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized... -
The End of Postwar: Essays on the Work of Ian Buruma by G. Deneckere 9789042936447
RRP: $130.90Booksplease Price: $128.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing by Ian Buruma 9780679781363
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The Man with Miraculous Hands: The Incredible Story of Himmler’s Physician Who Saved Thousands of Lives by Joseph Kessel
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $36.27The incredible story of Heinrich Himmler's physician who saved thousands of lives. With a new introduction by bestselling author Norman Ohler, which addresses Kersten's flawed legacy. In... -
Looking For The Lost: Journeys Through A Vanishing Japan by Alan Booth 9781568361482
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.27From the author of The Roads to Sata', this book tells the story of an odyssey to the vanishing heart of Japan. A VIBRANT, MEDITATIVE WALK IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL OF JAPAN Traveling by foot through... -
The Phenomenon of Anne Frank by David Barnouw
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $19.30While Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation of the Netherlands, she wrote what has become the world's most famous diary. But how could an unknown Jewish girl from Amsterdam be... -
Freedom of the Border Paul Scheffer (University of Amsterdam) 9781509540914
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $36.51There are few issues more contentious today than the nature and purpose of borders. Migration flows and the refugee crisis have propelled the issue of borders into the centre of political debate and... -
Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting by Omar G. Encarnacion 9780812245684
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $130.90Spain is a notable exception to the implicit rules of late twentieth-century democratization: after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, the recovering nation began to consolidate democracy... -
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $44.41Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years... -
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy 9781802065978
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.92A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject... -
Governing the World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark MazowerShortlisted for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military LiteratureIn 1815 the shocked and... -
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews by Jochen Hellbeck 9781035083893
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.32In the Nazi imagination, the USSR was the most powerful Jewish organization in the world. They called it 'World Enemy No. 1'.The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 1941... -
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair Maurice Samuels 9780300281804
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents "An admirable introduction not only to its nominal subject... -
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong Vaudine England 9781472157140
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $34.25A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose freedoms are... -
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan by Sarah Kovner 9780804776912
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $167.79The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years... -
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann 9781529435153
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026New Statesman Fiction Book of the Year 2025A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025A New York Times Notable Book of 2025A Telegraph Book of...