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(Hardback)
By: Toby Gutteridge
ISBN: 9781787635463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Miranda Seymour
ISBN: 9781847378255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nick Thomas-Symonds
ISBN: 9781784535629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on new research and previously unpublished sources, a major biography of one of the great British statesmen of the 20th century
One of Our Own: The Remarkable Story of Battle of Britain Pilot Squadron Leader Victor Ekins MBE DFC
(Hardback)
By: David Duker
ISBN: 9781399050678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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This is the biography of one of the RAF's airmen that Winston Churchill referred to as The Few'.
(Hardback)
By: Anna Beer
ISBN: 9781786074348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh
(Hardback)
By: Joanne Ball
ISBN: 9781399088329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Only full-length English biography of Varus.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Sangster
ISBN: 9781399045773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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This overdue biography describes how an officer who fought tribesmen in India and Dervishes in North-East Africa, thereby playing no significant role in The Great War, found himself as Winston Churchill's Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Short
ISBN: 9781847923370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Kim Marsland
ISBN: 9781913491932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Derby
ISBN: 9780947493523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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Mark Derby does justice to the spectacularly farflung radical and reactionary lives and the larger still legends of Arthur Desmond This is a thoroughly engaging work of historical detection and discernment.
(Hardback)
By: Rick Peacock-Edwards
ISBN: 9781911621461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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Rate of Climb is an original and continually entertaining biography, drawing on previously unpublished family and archival material, from a leading ex-RAF fighter pilot who flew Lightnings, Phantoms, Tonrado F2/3s and other high-performance aircraft.
(Paperback)
By: Laura Ashe
ISBN: 9780141987361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Rosemary Horrox
ISBN: 9780141999395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Douglas Boyd
ISBN: 9781399060790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The courageous life of Lore Schindler, an orphaned Jewish girl who grew up in WWII France.
(Hardback)
By: Mark Whitaker
ISBN: 9781982114121
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan Black Power challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.
(Hardback)
By: Peter Edgar
ISBN: 9780987057495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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Sir William Glasgow is a fascinating and valuable book that tells the story of this once famous figure: his early service in the Boer War, a career in the AIF which included serving at Gallipoli and distinguished command at the Western Front, and a knighthood and distinguished career in the Commonwealth Government and the diplomatic service.
(Paperback)
By: Helen Doe
ISBN: 9781911714255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2025
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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The first full reappraisal of one of Britains great fighter aces, this book examines the truth behind Tucks 1956 biography,Fly for Your Life. It looks at the evidence behind the myths, and reveals the real Stanford Tuck, a more complex man than the one-dimensional hero of the previous biography.
By: N. S. Nash
ISBN: 9781781590904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The first biography of an outstanding soldier and commander Had Gott not been killed he - and not Montgomery - would have commanded 8th Army in North Africa. Gott was the only general to be targeted for assassination by the Germans.
(Hardback, Illustrated edition)
By: Laura Thompson
ISBN: 9781789542646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A reissue of Laura Thompson's Take Six Girls, illustrated with beautiful and timeless photographs of the Mitford sisters.
(Hardback)
By: Mickey Mayhew
ISBN: 9781399083720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th November 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The definitive bible on all things Anne Boleyn.
(Hardback)
By: Winston Groom
ISBN: 9781426213359
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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(Hardback)
By: Arran Johnston
ISBN: 9781399061148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The true story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his fight for the right to the throne.
(Hardback)
By: Tony Benn
ISBN: 9781786330765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The narrative starts with Tony as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his experience as a trainee pilot during the war, his tentative first days as a backbencher in Atlee's post-war government, through his battle to remain in the Commons after the death of his father.
(Hardback)
By: Edward Abel Smith
ISBN: 9781399011488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Provides the real story which inspired the film, One Life, where Winton is played by Sir Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn.
