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Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to... -
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short
RRP: $52.25Booksplease Price: $36.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080063Author Philip ShortFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint < -
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short 9780719565694
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours,... -
Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen... -
Where I'm Calling From: The Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authorative edition.The stories in Where I'm... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys... -
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014*A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The...