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Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...
In The Footsteps of Churchill
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Richard Holmes Format: Hardback...
Mao: The Unknown Story
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback...
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine
Author: Dale Maharidge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
Gandhi: Naked Ambition
Author: Jad Adams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil...
Barack Obama: Quotes to Live By
Author: Carlton Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Barack Obama: Quotes to Live By is a life-affirming collection of over 170 quotes from one of the world's most admired...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Author: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010
Author: Chris Mullin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency
Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Wicked Lord Lyttelton
Author, Thomas Frost Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 192 A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism...
The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win
Author: Mark 'Billy' Billingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark...
The Senecans
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
Author: Chris Mullin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.'...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
For the Record
Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
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Author: Joseph E Persico Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 650 All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In "Roosevelt's Centurions, "distinguished historian...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 After an illustrious career spanning the 20th century legendary journalist Clare Hollingworth died in Hong Kong aged 105 in...
The Education of an Idealist
Author: Samantha Power Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a...
My First Life Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet
Author: Ignacio Ramonet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Hugo Chavez, military officer turned left-wing revolutionary, was one of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century. This...