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By: Peter J Gwyn

ISBN: 9780712651226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1992
Publisher: Vintage
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The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.


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By: Valerie Irvine

ISBN: 9781847250537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of the most extraordinary episodes in British royal history took place on 15 December 1785 when George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and George IV) secretly married the beautiful, twice-widowed and Roman Catholic Maria Fitzherbert. This marriage was in breach of the Royal Marriages Act of 1772.


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By: Peter Popham

ISBN: 9781846042508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Celebrated as one of the world's greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics. This biography tells the story of this woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe.


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By: Christopher Wilkins

ISBN: 9781784534868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first full biography of this pivotal figure in English history for over a century.


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By: Thom Hatch

ISBN: 9780451416865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: New American Library
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By: Paul Preston

ISBN: 9780008106218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spains turbulence in the 20th century.


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By: Mel Eichelbaum

ISBN: 9781543975536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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This book entails Mel Eichelbaum's memoir detailing the motivational forces and influences that steered him into the legal profession, his journey to becoming a Legal Aid lawyer, and primarily covering the significant civil rights and poverty law reform cases in which he was involved.


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By: Peter Thompson

ISBN: 9781741753516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The story of an Aussie 'hero' who became one of the most famous and influential journalists of the day, reporting for the London Times on China during the Boxer Rebellion and the fall of the last emperor.


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By: Richard Ingrams

ISBN: 9780006388258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals.


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By: Professor Pat Rogers

ISBN: 9781441199669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The remarkable story of Thomas Coningsby (1657-1729) exploring, for the first time, his tumultuous public and personal career.


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By: Robert Pinsky

ISBN: 9780805211535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Schocken Books
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Pinsky, a former poet laureate of the United States, draws on the biblical chronicle of David's life as well as later commentaries and the Psalms to weave the many strands of David's story into this narrative.


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By: Dr Rodney Atwood

ISBN: 9781780936765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kenneth C. Carstens

ISBN: 9780313322174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is a biography of a great American statesman and U.S. Senator of the nineteenth century.


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By: Ernest Scott

ISBN: 9780207197178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Presenting a biography of the illustrious navigator Matthew Flinders, this work is timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the commencement of his voyage on the Investigator, which resulted in the first recorded circumnavigation of the Australian continent.


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By: Lawrence Goldman

ISBN: 9781780937045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Lawrence Goldman

ISBN: 9781472577429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Theodore M. Vestal Ph.D.

ISBN: 9780313386206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This insightful book relates how Emperor Haile Selassie helped shape America's image of Africa and how that image continues to evolve in the United States today.


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By: Mitch Mcconnell

ISBN: 9780399564116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A behind-the-scenes memoir of the of the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.


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By: David Gilmour

ISBN: 9780712665186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Vintage
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Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than any man since Shakespeare, yet he was also the Apostle of the British Empire, a man who incarnated an era for millions of people who did not normally read poetry.


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By: Brian Castner

ISBN: 9780552779142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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The war against the Crazy.

This exhilarating, heartbreaking, searingly honest memoir exposes two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror, excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within.


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By: Angela Lambert

ISBN: 9780099455066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Cornerstone
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How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives

There are more than 700 biographies of Hitler, yet this is the first thorough study of Eva Braun, his secret mistress.


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By: Robert Morgan

ISBN: 9780451233523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Charles Drazin

ISBN: 9780099468288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol.

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