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Tower by Nigel Jones 9780099537656
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber,... -
Peace and War: Britain in 1914 by Nigel Jones 9781781853351
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $4.541914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue;... -
The Buckley Potteries: Recent Research and Excavation by Nigel Jones
Booksplease Price: $36.33The small town of Buckley, in Flintshire, was the focus for a regional pottery industry for at least 600 years, from the medieval period to the mid-20th century. However, despite Buckley's impressive... -
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones 9781250038401
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250038401Author Nigel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $18.49There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most... -
Countdown to Valkyrie: The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler by Nigel Jones 9781526766540
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.51Although there were more than forty plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler, none came closer to success than the 20 July Plot of 1944. As part of Operation Valkyrie this was masterminded by a group of... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones 9781789466157
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most... -
![Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes 9780007137527 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9660396/10677116/9780007137527__11521.1781283793.jpg?c=1 "Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes 9780007137527 [USED COPY]")
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes 9780007137527 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.39The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters,... -
![A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis by Nigel H. Jones 9781841199252 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9731934/10748576/9781841199252__23961.1781402655.jpg?c=1 "A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis by Nigel H. Jones 9781841199252 [USED COPY]")
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis by Nigel H. Jones 9781841199252 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $4.45The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923)... -
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles De Ville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire by Robin Quinn 9781803993737
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO.'Brilliant - a terrific read' - Michael Aspel OBE'The best book I've read all year' - Nigel Jones, editor, Devonshire... -
Wellington Koo: China by Jonathan Clements 9781905791699
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's International Settlement, Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985) became fluent in English during his postgraduate studies abroad - he got a PhD in Law... -
Friedrich Ebert: Germany - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by Harry Harmer 9781905791637
Booksplease Price: $18.91This title is about Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925). Ebert was influential in securing SPD support for the war in 1914. On the eve of war he travelled to Switzerland to arrange the movement of SPD funds... -
![So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox by Morgan Ring 9781408859698 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10023917/11040324/9781408859698__07663.1787723683.jpg?c=1 "So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox by Morgan Ring 9781408859698 [USED COPY]")
So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox by Morgan Ring 9781408859698 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22'Expertly researched, zestfully written, acutely intelligent in its historical judgements, this masterly biography finally does justice to a forgotten Tudor princess' John Guy Sometime heir to the... -
So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox by Morgan Ring
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Expertly researched, zestfully written, acutely intelligent in its historical judgements, this masterly biography finally does justice to a forgotten Tudor princess' John Guy Sometime heir to the... -
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II by A. T. Williams 9780099593263
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearShortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny,... -
The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee by Glyn Parry
Booksplease Price: $19.08Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures of the Tudor... -
Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War John Lewis-Stempel 9781409102144
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six weeks.During the Great War, many boys went straight... -
Secret War Heroes by Marcus Binney
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe... -
![The Dodger: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape by Tim Carroll 9781780576060 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5842704/5919770/9781780576060__02969.1727578163.jpg?c=1 "The Dodger: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape by Tim Carroll 9781780576060 [USED COPY]")
The Dodger: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape by Tim Carroll 9781780576060 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.53The Dodger is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners... -
Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest by Frank McLynn 9780712694179 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $3.66Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King... -
Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich by Ben H. Shepherd
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.32A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The... -
Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees by Edward Stourton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep - the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the... -
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov 9780140455151
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story is Mikhail Bulgakov's hilarious satire on Communist hypocrisies. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Andrew Bromfield, and includes an... -
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism.'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father... -
Royal Mint, National Debt: More Things the Royals Don’t Want You to Know 9781785909924
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.27In his irreverent and uncompromising bestseller ... And What Do You Do?, former Minister of State and Privy Counsellor Norman Baker laid bare what the British royal family didn't want us to know,... -
Victoria's Cross: The Untold Story of Britain's Highest Award for Bravery by Gary Mead
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's highest military honour since the Falklands war in... -
![Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9668618/10685338/9780753817094__14591.1781291268.jpg?c=1 "Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094 [USED COPY]")
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.28The definitive biography of the war poet - 'Dominic Hibberd has probably done more more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and work. His new Life is a triumph ... it is difficult to... -
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9781399426305
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41'An exemplary biography' -- Sunday Times'Commanding' - Observer'Diligent and insightful' - The TimesThis revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War... -
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France by Ruth Harris 9780141014777
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2010 and the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for BiographyRuth Harris writes beautifully and engagingly on a moment in French history that polarized society and... -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.31'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to... -
![All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007450725 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9679296/10696016/9780007450725__65105.1781301220.jpg?c=1 "All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007450725 [USED COPY]")
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007450725 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.23'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterly account of that epic conflict' ROBERT HARRIS The anniversary edition of... -
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France by Rick Stroud 9781471155666
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.13'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war ... an astonishing book ... a wonderful... -
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard OveryThe use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... -
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper Andrew Martin 9781781255605
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham... -
![Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder by Michael Burleigh 9781529030136 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9725456/10742116/9781529030136__04877.1781392664.jpg?c=1 "Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder by Michael Burleigh 9781529030136 [USED COPY]")
Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder by Michael Burleigh 9781529030136 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $6.35'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes' - The Times 'Book... -
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total... -
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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007398577 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $3.46The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total... -
The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013'Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman'Enthralling' Guardian'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of courseare fiction. But here... -
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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007519743 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.22The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total...