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Tower by Nigel Jones 9780099537656
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58No 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,... -
The Bench by Nigel Jones 9781907540158
Booksplease Price: €16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907540158Author Nigel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
Peace and War: Britain in 1914 Nigel Jones 9781781852538
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.351914 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: €32.26The 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... -
Peace and War: Britain in 1914 by Nigel Jones 9781781853351
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €4.031914 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;... -
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones 9781250038401
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.53Apologies 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: €26.18Booksplease Price: €16.42There 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.00Although 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39There 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... -
WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS: THE SECRET TO ALCOHOL-FREE LIVING & WELL-BEING by Nigel Jones 9781915147318
Booksplease Price: €19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915147318Author Nigel JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint -
WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS: THE SECRET TO ALCOHOL-FREE LIVING & WELL-BEING by Nigel Jones 9781915147301
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915147301Author Nigel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint -
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Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes 9780007137527 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €3.01The 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €3.95The 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.61THE 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... -
Enemy in the East: Hitler's Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Booksplease Price: €56.62Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30... -
Wellington Koo: China by Jonathan Clements 9781905791699
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Born 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: €16.67This 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.86'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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.34'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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A 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,... -
Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War John Lewis-Stempel 9781409102144
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The 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... -
Cyber Security: Threats and Responses for Government and Business by Jack Caravelli 9798765115282
Booksplease Price: €37.91This timely and compelling book presents a broad study of all key cyber security issues of the highest interest to government and business as well as their implications.This comprehensive work... -
The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee by Glyn Parry
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64Outlandish 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... -
Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain's Heritage Railways by Andrew Martin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'A delightful book ... the perfect companion as you wait for the 8.10 from Hove' Observer After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were gradually shut down. Rural communities were... -
Georges Clemenceau: France by David Robin Watson 9781905791606
Booksplease Price: €22.93The 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'... -
Secret War Heroes by Marcus Binney
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02Founded 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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €2.25The 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... -
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts 9780141029283 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €2.87From 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26The 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... -
Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich by Ben H. Shepherd
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.83A 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 Great War: Myth and Memory by Dan Todman 9781852855123
Booksplease Price: €42.09The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34From 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... -
The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921 by D. M. Leeson 9780199658824
Booksplease Price: €57.04This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government... -
The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War by Robert Crowcroft 9780198823698
RRP: €38.66Booksplease Price: €31.00Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that... -
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov 9780140455151
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A 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... -
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.34'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took... -
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70**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... -
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Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €2.92The 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... -
Victoria's Cross: The Untold Story of Britain's Highest Award for Bravery by Gary Mead
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70When 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... -
Royal Mint, National Debt: More Things the Royals Don’t Want You to Know 9781785909924
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.78In 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,...