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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.

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The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.

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Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnsons Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.

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A unique, well-written autobiography set in some of the remotest areas of combat in WWII.

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A compelling insiders account by the trusted adviser and confidante to Americas presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture.

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Tells the story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. This book presents an account from a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean forces when South Georgia was retaken from the invaders in Operation Paraquat.

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On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during World War II. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played.

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A groundbreaking new memoir which charts the author's journey from growing up in a working-class, immigrant family on the outskirts of Toronto to becoming foreign policy advisor to Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

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An illuminating new biography of Jackie Kennedyset during the time when she was 20 to 24 years oldthat covers the heretofore untold adventures of her time abroad in Paris, her life as an inquiring columnist and photographer at a Washington D.C. newspaper, and her romance with the charismatic congressman who shared her intellectual passion.

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This is a story of an ordinary girl from Germany who became caught up in the inner workings of the Nazi war machine. Louise Fox had grown up while the Nazis steadily took full control of the country and like so many of her age group Nazism was considered to be just normal.

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The author found the reality of Second World War at first very different from the world of heroic Captain Ball VC. Then the golden doors opened and he suddenly found himself in peacetime California, at 19 learning to fly between long weekends in Hollywood. This title reveals the joys of Hollywood and the terror of fighting in a war.

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Sharon Bowns remarkable 16-year career with the RAAF saw her deployed to East Timor, Bali and Afghanistan. From barely surviving a helicopter crash to commanding a combat surgical team, her story is a confronting, but ultimately inspirational, account of what our men and women in the military experience, and the price they pay for their service.

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As the proud son of one of the Few, Rick Peacock-Edwards was inspired to follow his father into the Royal Air Force and become a fighter pilot. This is an action-packed account of a foremost flyers life with endless good stories, and a colourful cast of characters to match. Amust for all lovers of derring-do in the air.

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A memoir that tells the amazing story of Peter's experiences in World War II, when he was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Now over 90 years old, Peter tells the incredible story of his survival.

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