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By: Margarette Lincoln
ISBN: 9780500518144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, this book centres on Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), the famous diarist and the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age.
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By: Tessa Duder
ISBN: 9781927305072
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: David Ling Publishing Limited
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By: Damien Lewis
ISBN: 9781529413816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The riveting birth story of the SAS
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By: Tony Rushmer
ISBN: 9781789297195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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A sumptuous, visual celebration of All Creatures Great & Small and its main character: the Yorkshire Dales. Offering a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the award-winning show and featuring over 200 full-colour photographs.
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By: Tony Rushmer
ISBN: 9781789297591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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The biography of remarkable SAS Original Reg Seekings, from his humble beginnings in the Cambridgeshire Fens to his instrumental role in the success of the SAS during the Second World War.
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By: Steve Harris
ISBN: 9781922129741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Melbourne Books
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By: Sarah Huckabee Sanders
ISBN: 9781250817136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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By: John C.H Spence FRS
ISBN: 9781920785000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Brolga Publishing Pty Ltd
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The biography of decorated RAAF fighter pilot Lou Spence in World Ward II and the Korean War, a story of bravery, leadership and love.
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By: Deyan Sudjic
ISBN: 9780500343555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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By: Andrew Lownie
ISBN: 9781473627383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The extraordinary true story of Guy Burgess, the man at the heart of the Cambridge Spy Ring and a linchpin of Cold War espionage.
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By: Sam Pivnik
ISBN: 9781444758399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.
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By: Captain David Render
ISBN: 9781474603287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander.
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By: Vera Brittain
ISBN: 9781780226590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE.
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By: Vera Brittain
ISBN: 9780349010274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War - much filmed, much studied and much loved. This classic memoir is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington.
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By: Susannah Stapleton
ISBN: 9781509867325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The enthralling true story of the curious life and career of Maud West, one of Britain's first and best-known female detectives.
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By: Charles Happell
ISBN: 9780330424844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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Kokichi Nishimura, a soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army, was the only man from his company to survive the Kokoda campaign. He made a promise that one day he would return to his comrades and bring them home to Japan for proper burial. In 1979, he returned to New Guinea. Over the next 25 years he found the remains of hundreds of his dead comrades.
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By: Nadhim Zahawi
ISBN: 9780008640699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The first memoir from Nadhim Zahawi MP
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By: Helen Lewis
ISBN: 9781925603620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Text Publishing
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By: Jean-Christophe Brisard
ISBN: 9781473686540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives, previously unseen materials, and cutting edge forensics.
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By: David Talbot
ISBN: 9780008159689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells Americas greatest untold story: the United States rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.
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By: Paul Jordan
ISBN: 9781921941887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed him of his freedom. His childhood, marred by the loss of his father and brother, produce a young man hell bent on being the best of the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join ...
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By: Dan Hampton
ISBN: 9780062685377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Tim Shoebridge
ISBN: 9780958261753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Fraser Books
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The Good Citizen powerfully illuminates the role of 'leading citizens' in determining the way New Zealand towns developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pushing their interests and establishing their place within the nation.
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By: Jonathan Biggins
ISBN: 9780733648335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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Keating had a deadly wit and an ego the size of Everest. But he was also a remarkable politician, and we can learn much from him about the art and craft of politics.
