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Biography: historical, political & military
Brand: Random House
The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . . endeavour, war and reconciliation' Sunday TimesCollingwood Ingram, born in 1880, b..
18.34£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians at work today.She was crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at sixteen years; at eighteen she ascended t..
15.43£
On June 28, 2005, nineteen U.S. service members perished in the mountains of Afghanistan. The author's husband, Navy SEAL Jacques Fontan, was one of those killed. The mission, Operation Red Wings, has become one of the most well-known operations in ..
29.46£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A leading voice in the global climate movement delivers a powerful manifesto and moving memoir about climate justice and how we can--and must--build a livable and inclusive future for all.Leading climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate brings her fi..
18.00£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was that the young man eventually came back. During his..
26.36£ 28.43£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed . . . This is a compelling psychological portrait of a ..
9.78£ 12.50£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
A sensitive and lovingly told story mixing fact, action, letters, journals, song and oral history. Pearson writes with a rich clarity and intelligence about his great grandfather, Charlie Collins, the boy who ran away to sea to become head stoker on..
15.62£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Polly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides unique thriving small communities through the colourful anecdotes of Lawrence MacEwen, whose family have owned the island since 1896. A wonderfully benevolent, and eccentric character, h..
14.44£
Brand: Lulu Press
This Third Edition Colour Version contains much additional information about the Attwell Family. Set in medieval, Tudor and Stuart England, we discover how the family became involved with the secretive Knights Templar and then spread around the coun..
14.46£ 42.82£
"A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland, the honest, principled, plain-spoken, and incorruptible twenty-second and twenty-fourth president whose country has largely forgotten him"--. ISBN: 9781982140748Publisher: Threshold EditionsImprint: Thr..
35.98£
Brand: Dundurn Press
The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec. A Mind at Sea is an intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the world's great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, ..
22.00£
Brand: The History Press
THE HONOURABLE MRS VICTOR BRUCE: record-breaking racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and businesswoman - remarkable achievements for a woman of the 1920s and '30s. Mildred Bruce enjoyed a privileged background that allowed her to se..
21.96£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Canada's most popular military leader since World War II, General Rick Hillier tells his own story in A Soldier First-a frank, honest, eye-opening account of the General's quick climb through the ranks. ISBN: 9780062026675Publisher: HarperCollinsImp..
27.60£
ISBN: 9789814951548Publisher: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak InstituteImprint: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak InstitutePublished date: 30 May 2022Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 216Weight: 333gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 12mm..
22.62£ 22.69£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young..
13.55£
"The story of Abraham Lincoln's faith and intellectual life-updated and revised with a new preface-from the three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize and best-selling Civil War-era historian Allen Guelzo. Allen Guelzo's peerless account of America's mo..
27.28£
Brand: The History Press
IN the 1930s Lady Lucy Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government. But politics had been far from her mind when, as young Fanny Radmall, she had set out to conquer th..
21.70£
Brand: Haus Publishing
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, ..
30.39£
Brand: Orion
'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Mont..
13.10£
Brand: Orion
June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second W..
12.02£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
'A case more important than Profumo' Financial Times 'A riveting read' Literary Review He lived a double-life in the sixtiesFaked his own death in the seventiesAnd retained his cover in the eighties A period thriller with powerful political and e..
22.21£ 22.74£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
He lived a double-life in the sixtiesFaked his own death in the seventiesAnd retained his cover in the eighties A period thriller with powerful political and espionage themes, Agent Twister is the remarkable story behind one of the greatest scandal..
21.85£
This brief biography looks at one of the most influential writers from the francophone Caribbean. Aimé Césaire was a poet, playwright and politician, who, along with Léon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana and Léopold Senghor of Senegal, founded the N..
37.22£
Sir John Slessor was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished wartime commanders and incisive military thinkers, and William Pyke's comprehensive new biography reveals how he earned this remarkable reputation. Slessor, a polio victim who al..
30.37£