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Robert Marsden Hope, a NSW Supreme Court judge, shaped the structures, operations and doctrines of Australia's intelligence agencies more than any other individual. This landmark biography is a groundbreaking account of the life and times of a man who shaped the way Australias intelligence agencies have operated for four decades.

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Lars T. Lih gives a non-partisan,vivid portrait and a striking new interpretation of a key revolutionary thinker and founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin, and shows that underneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was more a romantic enthusiast than a sour pragmatist.

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A new critical biography of Leon Trotsky, a strong leader of Soviets and one of the most important figures of twentieth-century Communism. This biography delves deep into Trotsky's life and relationships to reveal and understand his complex character and actions.

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Translation of the combined memoir and tribute by Trotsky's widow and his close friend, first published in France in 1951.

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A superb overview of pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer and historian Machiavelli.

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This book offers the first full length biography of legendary explorer Mungo Park for over forty years. Tracing the expeditions who followed him it documents how and why he was commemorated long after his death. This is not simply one of the great stories of world exploration but a rich and varied account of Africa and its cultures at the time.

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Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

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The book will lift the lid on this most enigmatic and secretive of Prime Ministers during the most tumultuous period in modern British political history.

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Written by one of Britain's leading political and social commentators, May at 10 describes how Theresa May arrived in 10 Downing Street in 2016 with the clearest, yet toughest, agenda of any Prime Minister since the Second World War: delivering Brexit. What follows defies belief or historical precedent. This story has never been told.

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In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Robert Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. This is an original and insightful book about Menzies 193941 government and his so-called wilderness years.

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This innovative historical biography traces the lives of a unique Australian Aboriginal family whose Russian ancestry can be traced to the ancient Russian Czars, while their Aboriginal ancestors are descended from the chiefs of the Ngadjon people of the Atherton Tablelands.

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Alan Friedman tells the story of Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who has dominated Italian life for the past twenty years.

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When Gough Whitlam died in October 2014, the outpouring of affectionate remembrances and genuine grief expressed across Australia was extraordinary. Not Just For This Life commemorates and celebrates Goughs life. It covers the big themes of Goughs lif eand legacy: transformation, belonging, courage, equality, enlarging, comrades and grace.

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"Originally published in France as Pericles: La democratie athenienne a l'epreuve du grand homme, Armand Colin, 2010."

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Michael Ashcrofts new book follows the journey of a politician who has quickly become an outspoken and charismatic presence in British public life and who promises to be a lively addition to the government should Labour win the next general election.

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St George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire. England is only one country to have adopted this legendary soldier saint as their patron, others include Germany, Armenia, Hungary, Portugal and...

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A work 80 years in the making, this volume is Trotsky's unfinished masterpiece.

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