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Focuses on Roosevelt's pre-presidential career, covering the period between 1858 to 1901, during which time Roosevelt built himself up from a frail asthmatic youth to a robust man with varied interest.

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Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation of the Australian landscape.

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Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, British soldier Arthur Dodd thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he risked his life to sabotage Nazi industrial work and alleviate the suffering of Jewish prisoners. This shocking true story presents the largely unknown story of the military POWs held there.

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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes a breathtaking biography of WWIIs Scarlet Pimpernel as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistant

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When Helen Batten's marriage breaks down, she starts on a journey of discovery into her family's past and the mysteries surrounding her enigmatic nanna's early life. What she unearths is a tale of five feisty red heads struggling to climb out of poverty and find love through two world wars.

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The defining book on the Profumo scandal. Updated and republished to coincide with the opening of the major new Andrew Lloyd Weber musical: Stephen Ward.

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The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin.

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A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots.

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This first book on Kim Jong-uns powerful sister, tipped to be his successor, is a readable, jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and dangerous dynasty.

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The fiercely intelligent beauty who married the 9th Duke of Marlborough and both dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles of the Belle Epoque in which she moved.

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A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties remarkable 5* review, Telegraph

On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blriot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalins most audacious intelligence operation.

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The remarkable story of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre.

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An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.

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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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During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute control.

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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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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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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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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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Jimmy Lai chose to stay and fight for the city he lovedto die in jail for freedom and democracy.

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But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke.

Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the courage to bring the King's trial to its dramatic conclusion: the English republic.

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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.