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Murdoch by William Shawcross 9780684830155
Booksplease Price: €30.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684830155Author William ShawcrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon &... -
The Shah's Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally by William Shawcross 9780671687458
Booksplease Price: €26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671687458Author William ShawcrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon &... -
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross 9780815412243
Booksplease Price: €24.28Although there are many books and films dealing with the Vietnam War, Sideshow tells the truth about America's secret and illegal war with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973. William Shawcross interviewed... -
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.63'Totally absorbing and highly readable account of a remarkable life . . . genuinely revelatory' The Times'A colossal book about a colossal life, a spectacular journey across the entire twentieth... -
Allies: The U.S., Britain, and Europe in the Aftermath of the Iraq War by William Shawcross 9781586483470
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.80The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards were the battlefield victims of a brutally quick war of... -
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross 9780330434300 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €2.86'Totally absorbing and highly readable account of a remarkable life . . . genuinely revelatory' The Times'A colossal book about a colossal life, a spectacular journey across the entire twentieth... -
Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed by William Shawcross 9781610392181
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.90Since the Nuremberg Trials of 1945, lawful nations have struggled to impose justice around the world, especially when confronted by tyrannical and genocidal regimes. But in Cambodia, the USSR, China,... -
Counting One's Blessings: The Collected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross 9780330535779
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.66One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ... brimful of... -
The Use and Abuse of Sovietology by Leopold Labedz
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.24"This is a work by a fighter, a thinker, and an idealist. Leo Labedz is a fighter who minces no words in his contempt for the apologists of totalitarianism. He never rests in his efforts to enlarge... -
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . . . a valuable and insightful book which will change our view of Queen Victoria.' Spectator When Queen Victoria's husband,... -
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Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport 9780099537465 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.34'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . . . a valuable and insightful book which will change our view of Queen Victoria.' Spectator When Queen Victoria's husband,... -
The Place At The End Of The World: Stories from the Frontline by Janine di Giovanni 9780747580362
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30_______________ 'Few writers can match her evocations of individual suffering in wartime.' - Newsweek 'A gifted and humane reporter with a novelist's eye for detail.' - Literary Review 'One... -
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine di Giovanni 9780747568681
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66_______________ 'A moving book by one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents' - Daily Telegraph 'A terrifying account, soberly written ... Presents a stunning portrait of the... -
Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century by Alain Destexhe 9780814718735
Booksplease Price: €107.78The horrific slaughter in Rwanda has once again driven home the deeply rooted existence and continuing presence of genocidal impulses. In this passionately argued volume-first published to great... -
The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention by Kira Brunner 9780465008049
Booksplease Price: €19.75The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and... -
Dying Days Les Hinton 9781917523516
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.36'An amazing insight into the newspaper world . . . an original story told with frightening conviction by a damn good writer. Could it happen?' - JEFFREY ARCHER Journalist Dan Brasher wasn't... -
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Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden 9780006378563 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €3.20A remarkable and controversial book about the reality of modern Africa by distinguished American reporter, Blaine Harden. This remarkable book is the first to get behind the picture... -
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani 9780006550716
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.40Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal... -
The Bootle Boy: an untidy life in news by Les Hinton 9781912854110
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.53A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. Les Hinton worked with Rupert Murdoch for more than five decades, and in... -
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani 9780006550716 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €6.06Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to... -
Queen of the World Robert Hardman 9781784759513
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A brilliant portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it, written by the renowned royal biographer and author of Queen of Our Times, Robert Hardman... -
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson 9780141022000
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.70'Riveting ... this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The New York Times'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'This... -
Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Broman 9781612008967
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88Barry Broman has led a remarkable life, and met some remarkable people along the way of his years at a Central Intelligence Agency case officer. Broman was a teenage photographer for the Associated... -
Conversations with Power: What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About Leadership by Brian Michael Till 9780230110588
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.21Fresh out of college, and frustrated with own generation's political apathy, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. To his surprise, they were eager to talk, and he... -
Going to the Wars Max Hastings 9781035057337
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'A superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time' - Robert Harris, author of An Officer and a Spy'Gripping and... -
Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan by Deborah Scroggins
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer. Emma McCune's passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the... -
The Bootle Boy: an untidy life in news by Les Hinton 9781911617013
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.39A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet... -
Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War by James A. Tyner
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.44President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic... -
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer 9781605984018
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.41A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food,... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 Kenneth Rose 9781474601559
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.30'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 Kenneth Rose 9781474601542
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.30'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary... -
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022 by Robert Hardman 9781529063455
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes... -
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman 9781529063417 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €3.18A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes... -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria... -
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury 9781408852910 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €3.96A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had... -
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Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury 9781408845240 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €2.98King George V predicted that his eldest son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world's press broke their... -
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of EuropeIn this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar...