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By: Bartholomew Sparrow
ISBN: 9781586489632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The complete, never-before-told story of the political life of the influential, elusive man who has helped shape American foreign policy over the last 40 years, and who made headlines for breaking with his party on the Iraq War
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By: Peniel Joseph
ISBN: 9781541617865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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A dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King that transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders
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By: John Stevens
ISBN: 9781570620508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1994
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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Yamakoa Tesshu, the founder of the No-sword school of Kendo, was a master swordsman, calligrapher, Zen practitioner, and embodied the samurai ideal of the peaceful warrior. This biography recounts his life-story, revealing his feats of endurance and skillful handling of military affairs.
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By: Elizabeth Norton
ISBN: 9781784081720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth I.
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By: Elizabeth Norton
ISBN: 9781784081737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth I.
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By: Mark L. Clifford
ISBN: 9781668027691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Jimmy Lai chose to stay and fight for the city he lovedto die in jail for freedom and democracy.
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By: Gillian Tindall
ISBN: 9780099587798
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, Gillian Tindall traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space.
The Tunnel Through Time uncovers the lives of those who walked where many of our streets still run.
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By: Scott S. Greenberger
ISBN: 9780306823893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Hachette Books
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An exquisitely written, comprehensive biography of Chester A. Arthur, our virtually forgotten 21st president, who unexpectedly occupied the nation's highest office and surprised everyone with his moral character and reformist policies
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By: Scott S. Greenberger
ISBN: 9780306922701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Hachette Books
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The life and times of the 21st president of the United States--who surprised everyone with his anti-corruption agenda--and assumed office after President James Garfield died from an assassin's bullet.
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By: Mike Jay
ISBN: 9781472144072
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The remarkable life of Colonel Edward Despard, comrade-in-arms of Nelson and a man who championed the rights of freed slaves, but who was executed in Britain for high treason in 1803.
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By: Huntly Gordon
ISBN: 9780857501950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men.
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By: Jacob Rees-Mogg
ISBN: 9780753548547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Robert O'Neill
ISBN: 9780062994073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"War stories meet inspiring lessons in this straight-shooting and darkly funny account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields and in daily lives, from ... United States service members and ... authors Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer"--
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By: Lesley Blanch
ISBN: 9780753827918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.
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By: Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN: 9781844080748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An intriguing exploration of the Francis Bacon's life
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By: Simon Doubleday
ISBN: 9780465066995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2015
Publisher: Basic Books
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An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization
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By: Clare Mulley
ISBN: 9781786076472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Presents the adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children.
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By: Frances Stonor Saunders
ISBN: 9780571239795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A passionate rescue-operation on behalf of a brave, tragic woman who was condemned to oblivion.
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By: Clare Mulley
ISBN: 9781447274230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th March 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.
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By: Brunhilde Pomsel
ISBN: 9781408894453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 24th January 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John Crawley
ISBN: 9781612199849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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By: Alex Rowson
ISBN: 9780008284398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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By: Theodore Roosevelt
ISBN: 9781931082662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: The Library of America
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This unprecedented volume brings together 367 letters written by Theodore Roosevelt between 1881 and 1919. Also included are four speeches, best known by the phrases they introduced into the language: "The Strenuous Life" (1899); "The Big Stick" (1901); "The Man in the Arena" (1910); and "The New Nationalism" (1910).
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By: May Smith
ISBN: 9781844088119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.
