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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge by Michael Howard 9780738562582
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738562582Author Michael HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint -
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century by Michael Howard 9780198204282 [USED COPY]
RRP: €53.99Booksplease Price: €2.88Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed... -
Van Gogh: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard 9780754819547
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.71The first half of this fascinating book contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career, influences and relationships. Beginning with his birth in 1853, it... -
War in European History Michael Howard (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford) 9780199546190
RRP: €17.39Booksplease Price: €13.98First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far... -
The Consequence of Love by Sandra Howard 9781471111419
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Perfect reading for fans of Joanna Trollope and Elizabeth Buchan, this is a novel of lost loves, deceits and second chances.Nattie is now happily married to Hugo and they have two beautiful children,... -
Tell the Girl by Sandra Howard 9781471111372 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €2.88Married four times, Susannah Forbes had a starry career as a top model. Now, with an instinctive eye for colour and design, she finds herself in constant demand as an interior designer. Offered a... -
The Conservative Party: An Illustrated History by Anthony Seldon 9780750935357 [USED COPY]
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €3.26The Conservative Party is Britain's most successful political party. For large parts of modern British history it has been the dominant party, though it has always suffered from internal division and... -
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson 9781471162343 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.89THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A brilliant and definitive biography of Boris... -
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson 9781471162343
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.60THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A brilliant and definitive biography of Boris... -
Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month Allan Mallinson 9780857503800
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have... -
Puritanism & Revolution by Christopher Hill 9780712667227
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and... -
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil 9780141991610
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.74'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into... -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 3: Sixth Series by Royal Historical Society 9780521551694 [USED COPY]
RRP: €58.79Booksplease Price: €5.88The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished... -
Socialism by Michael W. Howard 9781573929561 [USED COPY]
RRP: €36.00Booksplease Price: €4.75This outstanding collection defines the concept, provides competing models, and explores the relationship of socialism to a wide range of fundamental human concerns: freedom, equality (including... -
A Matter of Loyalty Sandra Howard 9781847392602
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14When a bomb goes off in London's West End, Home Secretary Victoria Osborne has a desperate sense of having failed in her duty to protect the public. A young Muslim reporter, Ahmed Khan, also has... -
Memories of Margaret Thatcher: A portrait, by those who knew her best Iain Dale 9781785909764
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14Margaret Thatcher is a British icon. There is no denying her place in history as Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister. In this centenary year of her birth she still bestrides the... -
David Jones in the Great War by Thomas Dilworth
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €14.34David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not... -
Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-22 by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Booksplease Price: €15.73Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the... -
SS-GB by Len Deighton 9780008166151 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €2.78A special edition of Deighton's classic thriller, the first and certainly greatest 'what-if?' novel about the Second World War, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Sam Riley and adapted... -
The Face Of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.29The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of... -
A History Of Warfare John Keegan 9781844137497
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.88The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan's masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of warfare, but... -
A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War by David Wetzel 9780299174941
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history.The clash... -
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.16'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening StandardParis in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch,... -
The Donkeys by Alan Clark 9780712650359 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.39The landmark expose of incompetent leadership on the Western Front - why the British troops were lions led by donkeys On 26 September 1915, twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men... -
Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.16'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday TelegraphTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at... -
The Donkeys by Alan Clark 9780712650359
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14The landmark expose of incompetent leadership on the Western Front - why the British troops were lions led by donkeys On 26 September 1915, twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men... -
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €13.64The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of the forgotten war.'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the... -
Spy Hook by Len Deighton
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.88'A master of fictional espionage' Daily Mail'In Deighton's best books - like this one - the narrative glides forward on rollers, and the scenes and characters fit perfectly into place. The result is... -
Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party by Peter Snowdon 9780007308842 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.99Lifting the lid on the most captivating story in British politics today, 'Back from the Brink' charts the Conservative Party's remarkable journey from the political wilderness to the threshold of... -
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.16'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate... -
The Unreturning Army by Huntly Gordon
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of... -
A Short History of the First World War Gary Sheffield 9781780743646
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.84The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for... -
A Short History of the First World War by Professor Gary Sheffield 9781780743646 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €3.84The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for... -
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day... -
Powder Wars: The Supergrass who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers by Graham Johnson
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.57Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs... -
The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 by Geoffrey Wawro 9780521629515
Booksplease Price: €31.93This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of... -
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €18.88**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE** **SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR** In the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan... -
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
RRP: €28.79Booksplease Price: €23.06Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the best approach to meaningful change and political stability in a world... -
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War by Jonathan Fennell 9781107030954
Booksplease Price: €70.68Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €12.82A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian...