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Cabinets and the Bomb by Peter Hennessy 9780197264225
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The Complete Reflections: Conversations with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and... -
The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing by Peter Hennessy 9781913368852
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy'By far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Corona by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much... -
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now... -
The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution by Peter Hennessy 9781913368715
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The British constitution matters. Its observance is crucial to the well-being of all our people, to every state activity and deployment of government power. It is crucial to the face our society... -
The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.27In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on... -
Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22 by Peter Hennessy 9781913368883
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $16.07Peter Hennessy brings his deep political and historical understanding to this study of two of the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced by Britain in peacetime. As the protracted withdrawal... -
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Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy 9780141004099 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.15Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $16.19'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal... -
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON) by Mr Richard King 9780571295654
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral... -
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and... -
The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately... -
No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s Andy McSmith 9781849019798
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Recollections of the 1950s: Home, Family and New Horizons by Stephen F Kelly 9781803993775
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48The 1950s saw a major shift in the lifestyles of many in Britain. Employment levels rose to new heights, white consumer goods appeared in shop windows for the first time, television replaced the... -
Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K... -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore 9780241324745
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.50Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore 9780241573587
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.45The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in... -
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured snow... -
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne... -
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore 9780141986920
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES,... -
The Fear and the Freedom: Why the Second World War Still Matters by Keith Lowe 9780241966488
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $23.17The bestselling, prize-winning author explores the impact of the Second World War - for nations, cities and families around the world. How does the experience and memory of the Second World War -... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in... -
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to... -
The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New... -
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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780713992823 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $4.44Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political... -
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Roland Philipps 9781784703578
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was... -
Blind Mans Bluff by Christopher Drew
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81__________________________Adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea: the remarkable reality of Cold War submarine warfareIn Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry... -
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of... -
The Making Of The British Army by Allan Mallinson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has... -
Vulcan 607 by Rowland White
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the...