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By: David B. Woolner
ISBN: 9780465048717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
(Paperback)
By: George Johnny Johnson MBE
ISBN: 9780091957759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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He recalls with unique wit and insight the difficult training conducted in secrecy, the race against time to release the bombs, and the sheer strength and bravery shown by a small unit faced with great adversity and uncertainty.
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By: Alan Clark
ISBN: 9780753816950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'With his Diaries, he has written himself into the life of our times with a panache and candour that ranks him next to Boswell or Pepys' The Times
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By: Hannah Pakula
ISBN: 9780753828021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Entertaining and masterly biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek - the woman who built modern China.
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By: Richard Hillary
ISBN: 9781405937504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Deborah Baker
ISBN: 9780099593157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019
An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.
John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas.
(Paperback)
By: Richard van Emden
ISBN: 9781408897225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: John Randall
ISBN: 9781780575278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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He wined and dined in nightclubs as part of the generation that lived for each day because they might not see another.
This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure.
(Hardback)
By: John Humphreys
ISBN: 9780241686324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pre-order the captivating account of the Battle of Arnhem from one of the last survivors of our Greatest Generation - 101-year-old paratrooper veteran John Humphries
(Paperback)
By: John Humphreys
ISBN: 9781405964258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Mark K. Updegrove
ISBN: 9780062654120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Anna Keay
ISBN: 9781408845936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Eleanor Reissa
ISBN: 9781637582558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Permuted Press
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The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrativea rare blend of informative, poignant, excruciating, startling, humorous, and ultimately inspiring storytelling.
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By: Robert V Remini
ISBN: 9780061807886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Condensation of the author's three-volume biography originally published 1977-1984 under titles: Andrew Jackson and the course of American empire, 1767-1821; Andrew Jackson and the course of American freedom, 1822-1832, and Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845.
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By: Niccolo Machiavelli
ISBN: 9781847498328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2020
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Written in Machiavelli's characteristically lucid and terse style, Life of Castruccio Castracani is a revealing account of the political ferment and fractious factionalism of fourteenth-century Italy.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Stendhal
ISBN: 9780940322899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2007
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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The Life of Henry Brulard is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.
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By: Louis Fischer
ISBN: 9781784700409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or passive resistance, earned him the admiration of millions. This biography offers a definitive account of Gandhi's life. It tells the story of one man who changed the world forever.
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By: Alan Johnson
ISBN: 9780552172158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016
From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnsons multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in todays Britain.
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By: Slavomir Rawicz
ISBN: 9781845296445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The ultimate story of human endurance, over 4,000 miles on foot escaping from a Soviet gulag in Siberia, across the Gobi Desert in China, over the Himalayas and through Tibet into India.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Gailey
ISBN: 9781444792430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Gailey
ISBN: 9781444792454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2016
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780099546467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader The Times
The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Salter
ISBN: 9781982120948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)
By: Justice John Paul Stevens
ISBN: 9780316489669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A 'timely and hugely important' account of his life on the Supreme Court (New York Times)
