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By: Andrew Roberts
ISBN: 9780141032016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended.
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By: Michael Broers
ISBN: 9780571273454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The first volume of a majestic new biography of the great ruler told with energy, style and brand new research.
(Hardback)
By: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781529040302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Frederick Douglasss pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.
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By: Ian Jones
ISBN: 9780733623431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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Combines years of research into records of the era and exhaustive interviews with living descendants of those involved, to present a vivid and gripping account of one of Australia's most iconic figures.
(Hardback)
By: Sello Hatang
ISBN: 9781922351043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Murdoch Books
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A unique insight into the qualities, routines and disciplines of Nelson Mandela, revolutionary anti-apartheid leader and first president of a democratic South Africa (1994-99).
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By: Corrado Vivanti
ISBN: 9780691196893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Guy de Pourtals
ISBN: 9781782277286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2022
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback)
By: Tonia Eckfeld
ISBN: 9781922979780
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Shimon Peres
ISBN: 9781474604215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A personal account of the shaping of modern Israel by Shimon Peres, former prime minister (1985-1986, 1995-1996) and president (2007-2014)
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By: Jeff Sparrow
ISBN: 9781925321852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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Vocalist. Actor. Athlete. Agitator. Icon. Martyr.
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By: Sue Boyd
ISBN: 9781760801496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Dario Nustrini
ISBN: 9781775542513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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By: Ian W. Shaw
ISBN: 9780330404259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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On 12 February 1942, Singapore was just days away from its fall to the Japanese. As the city burned, hundreds of desperate people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst them were 65 Australian Army nurses, who boarded a coastal freighter, the Vyner Brooke. But theirs was a doomed voyage. Japanese bombers attacked and sank the vessel off Sumatra.
(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Beller
ISBN: 9781982178963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)
By: Oliver Darkshire
ISBN: 9781529177121
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew Kwong
ISBN: 9781460758625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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By: William P Barr
ISBN: 9780063275195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Mark Hodkinson
ISBN: 9781788404853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who found and helped liberate Bergen-Belsen.
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By: LOIS ANN NICOLAI
ISBN: 9781667857947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds: A Memoir of World Citizen Diplomats is the third and final book of Nicolai's memoir trilogy. It explains how 'World Citizen Diplomats' became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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By: Steve Kemper
ISBN: 9780358064749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Drawing on Grews diary of his time in Tokyo as well as U.S. embassy correspondence, diplomatic dispatches, and firsthand Japanese accounts, Our Man in Tokyo brings to life a man who risked everything to avert another world war, the country where he staked it alland the abyss that swallowed it.
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By: Matt Hancock
ISBN: 9781785907746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2022
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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Drawing on a wealth of never-before-seen material, including official records, Matt Hancock's notes at the time and communications with all the key players in Britain's Covid-19 story, this candid account reveals the inner workings of government during a time of national crisis.
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By: Henri Charrire
ISBN: 9780007179961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Bacevich
ISBN: 9781250870179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/ 11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
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By: Andrew Bacevich
ISBN: 9781250832498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
