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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
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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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(Hardback)
By: Kathryn J. McGarr
ISBN: 9781586488772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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(Paperback)
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
(Hardback)
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
(Paperback)
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: Natalie Livingstone
ISBN: 9781529366723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mistresses of Cliveden, an enthralling, sumptuous and surprising history of the Rothschild women
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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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(Hardback)
By: John Crawley
ISBN: 9781612199849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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(Hardback)
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: Frank H. Goodyear III
ISBN: 9781588348012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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(Hardback)
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).
(Paperback)
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.
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By: John O'Farrell
ISBN: 9781784163211
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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It is the heartbreaking and hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons;
(Hardback)
By: John Guinness
ISBN: 9781538706459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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As President Biden so often tells us: "My dad had a saying..." Prudent life lessons-and some downright weird advice-from one Biden to another.
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By: Alan Johnson
ISBN: 9780552167017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. This book tells the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; and his sister, Linda.
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By: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
ISBN: 9780061353482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's 'Iron Lady' - was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African nation. This memoir shares the inside story of her rise to power.
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By: John Guy
ISBN: 9780141044675
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, he was befriended and favoured by Henry II and quickly ascended the rungs of power and privilege. He led 700 knights into battle, brokered peace between warring states and advised King and Pope.
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By: Robert Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780753823613
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2008
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The rise and fall of Henry's notorious minister - the most corrupt Chancellor in English history
