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Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

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'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphThe gripping sequel...
SAS - Battle Ready: True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the World

SAS - Battle Ready: True Stories from Memorable Missions Around [...]

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The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by...
SAS Great Escapes Three: Gripping True Escape Stories Executed by World War Two Heroes

SAS Great Escapes Three: Gripping True Escape Stories Executed [...]

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'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Nazi troops in blizzard conditions,...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

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'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' - Hisham Matar,...
Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis, the Lost Visionary of British Aviation

Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis, the Lost Visionary of British Aviation

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'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned...
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys-and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the [...]

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center...
The Complete History of the SAS: The World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force

The Complete History of the SAS: The World's Most Feared Elite [...]

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Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world's most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces. This book tells the full, fascinating story...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon

God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: [...]

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In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan...
Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film [...]

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The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, ?lm producer and Russian double agent Boris Morros was a...
St George

St George

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St George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted...
A Circle of Five

A Circle of Five

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On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

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Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's...
A Circle of Five

A Circle of Five

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On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

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From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' - Hisham Matar,...
Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey

Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One [...]

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The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed on Freedom brings...
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra

Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra

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Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it...
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

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At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty...
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman

How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, [...]

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This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan...
Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey

Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One [...]

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The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed on Freedom brings...
Grant

Grant

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The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017"Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack...
Marx and Marxism

Marx and Marxism

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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in...
Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist

Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist

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The first biography of Thomas Macaulay, from child prodigy to imperial administrator in India and revered elder statesman and historian in Britain Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility....
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero

Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero

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This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the a old monstera and his reign. The a monstera displayed here is, at the very...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

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Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has...
General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome

General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome

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Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men-along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-who historian Martin Blumenson called...
Richard III in the North

Richard III in the North

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Richard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the nation. As spectacular as his death at...
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a [...]

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"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Edward IV: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

Edward IV: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

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Edward IV (king from 1461-83), so often overshadowed by his younger brother and eventual successor Richard III is a controversial figure in his own right. Was he a lazy and...
Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity

Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity

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Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for "Gulliver's Travels" and other satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as...
Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of Colonel William C. Oates

Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of Colonel William C. Oates

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William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the battle -...
Godley

Godley

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A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF)...
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III

The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III

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'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

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George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860

All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860

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Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed in this "compelling, original, and elegantly written" (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) third volume of...
Julius Caesar: A Life

Julius Caesar: A Life

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Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a most brilliant politician, a most successful general, a most accomplished psychologist. He grew up in...
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change

Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change

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In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image - and...
Bad Boy: Bert Hall, Aviator and Mercenary of the Skies

Bad Boy: Bert Hall, Aviator and Mercenary of the Skies

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Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his own two autobiographies, has proven...
The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler

The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler

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In 1381, England was on the brink - the poor suffered the effects of war, the Black Death, and Poll Tax. At this time the brave Wat Tyler arose to...
Family Betrayal: Agent Sonya, MI5 and the Kuczynski Network

Family Betrayal: Agent Sonya, MI5 and the Kuczynski Network

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The remarkable story of the Kuczynskis, a family of Soviet spies under cover in Britain. In 1933, the celebrated German economist Robert Kuczynski and his wife Bertha arrived in Britain....
Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country

Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country

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"A painstaking and . . . admiring portrait" (Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal) of Hubert Humphrey, one of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century"An outstanding account of the...
Descartes: A Biography

Descartes: A Biography

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Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that...
The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman

The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman

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Harry S. Truman was Commander-in-Chief at one of the (if not the) critical moments in American--and global--military history: when the decision had to be made to drop the Bomb. As...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

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A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are...
Keir Starmer: The Biography

Keir Starmer: The Biography

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THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...