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Although John F Kennedy is perhaps the best-known American president of the 20th century, the many previous biographies ignore the importance of his formative years, just before WWII, when his...

Harry S. Truman is remembered today as an icon--the plain-speaking president, "Give 'em Hell Harry," the chief executive who put "The Buck Stops Here" on his desk. But Alonzo L....

'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing' Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East 'Lively, original and fascinating' David Abulafia, Literary Review 'An enthralling...

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...

The Book of Churchilliana is much more than just a tribute to Winston Churchill. Alongside a definitive collection of memorabilia, Douglas Hall provides the reader with a unique historical view...

An accessible biography of Henry VIII by one of the country's leading Tudor experts. The future Henry VIII was born on 29 June 1491, the second son of Henry VII...

This first comprehensive biography of Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror and an elusive figure for historians, offers a rich and compelling account of his tumultuous life...

"Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour's] assessment of the political background of Kipling's writings is exemplary." --Earl L. Dachslager, Houston Chronicle David Gilmour's superbly nuanced biography of Rudyard Kipling,...

The book titled Elizabeth I by the author Anne Somerset. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the...

Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these handsome, inexpensive volumes. These biographies detail the facts known about their subjects and emphasize their childhood, motivation,...

Written by a psychotherapist with experience in evaluating personality disorders, this volume concentrates on Adolf Hitler, looking at the motives that drove him to commit such atrocities as the Holocaust....

THE SECRET SERVICE. An elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed--and a country...

Part imperious royal figure, part femme du monde, Princess Margaret remains the most interesting member of the British royal family. For many years second in line to the throne, she...

A fascinating, comprehensive biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar.More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped...

Biography of one of Australia's most important Labor Prime Ministers by a distinguished biographer. This is an important classic biography of an Australian Prime Minister whose life still exerts an...

Rudolph Hess's flight to Scotland in May 1941 remains one of the great unresolved mysteries of World War II. Did he come on Hitler's commission, or, as he always maintained,...

This is a major biography of Hitler's Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, based on his hitherto undiscovered diaries and private and official documents. The author analyzes how Goering intrigued and conspired to...

This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by...

Adolf Hitler unleashed a nightmare of terror in Europe that changed the course of history and forever altered our conception of human nature. To begin to understand Hitler, this biography...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a...

In 1936, King Edward VIII renounced the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American divorcee. From her birth in Pennsylvania to her lonely end in Paris, this book traces...

The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the...

A New York Times BestsellerTheodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable...

A true and shocking account of growing up in a Glasgow slum Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large...

Examines Lincoln's role during the Civil War.

In "Days of Fire," Peter Baker, ChiefWhite House Correspondent for "The New York Times," takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and...

Earl Mountbatten of Burma has always been regarded as a leading figure in British public life and the Royal Family. During World War II he was Chief of the Combined...

The book titled A Question of Character: Life of John F.Kennedy by the author Thomas C. Reeves. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

"Wonderfully evocative... Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read." -- Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice "Astonishingly vivid." --James...

In the early 1990s, Thaksin Shinawatra came from nowhere to become a multi-billionaire in just four years. In 2001, he was elected prime minister on a single-minded promise to accelerate...

Royals expert Nicholas Davies - the author of the Birch Lane Press bestseller Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage - reveals for the first time the intimate secrets of...

Lady Jane Grey, is one of the most elusive and tragic characters in English history. In July 1553 the death of the childless Edward VI threw the Tudor dynasty into...

A photographic portfolio offering a view of the Nixon years, from his inauguration as the 37th president through the Watergate hearings to his emotional resignation.

A masterly re-evaluation of a self-made Elizabethan hero, and a fascinating re-creation of the man and his era. Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country...

This book chronicles the life of one of history's greatest figures, from his birth through to death aged 32, when he was revered as a god by the 40,000 men...

As the centenary of his birth approaches, Anthony Eden remains one of the most controversial figures in the political history of 20th-century Britain. Using unpublished archival material, much of it...

At the tawdry, extravagant heart of the Regency period - nine scandalous, politically fascinating years from 1811 to 1820 - lies the bitter mismatch between the Prince and Princess of...

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the...

The book titled Victoria and Albert: Life at Osborne House by the author Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This biography presents Drake through the accounts of friends and enemies on both the national and personal level. From his family's fierce love of Protestantism, and their early poverty which...

This biography of beloved Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, provides an illuminating account of a sickly child, son of a Presbyterian lighthouse engineer, who became in turn a Bohemian dandy,...

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...

Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep...

Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. His father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and...