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Biography: historical, political & military
Brand: Random House
Chatwin's brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he meets along the way. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels ..
13.07£
A debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and Rinker Buck, In Pursuit of Jefferson is the story of an American on a journey through Europe, following the epic trail of Thomas Jefferson.A controversial fou..
26.26£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily MailIn Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography th..
22.35£ 22.74£
An insider's perspective on how the Abraham Accords were concluded and why they offer a way forward to a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East-if only they are not abandoned by the Biden Administration.This book charts the remarkable jo..
28.70£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review'Starts with an erupting volcano - and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insig..
14.08£
Brand: Oneworld Publications
'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced..
15.41£
Brand: Kessinger Publishing
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available ..
16.14£
Brand: Random House
Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murder..
18.47£
Brand: The History Press
New Zealand's prime minister has been hailed as a leader for a new generation, tired of inaction in the face of issues such as climate change and far-right terrorism. Her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting captured the w..
18.31£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a w..
30.70£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of hi..
33.53£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while remaining acutely conscious of t..
33.74£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history -- his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal go..
28.15£ 28.43£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west ..
15.04£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'The most compelling biography I have read in years . . . There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . . makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what..
21.22£
Brand: SPCK
'In another world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.'From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1903)Canonized by Pope Francis in October 2019, Saint John Henry Newman (1801..
13.79£
Brand: Random House
Throughout John Lewis's long and storied career he maintained a seemingly unwavering hope for a better future. This hope can be traced throughout the interviews collected here. From a young activist testifying in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday to re..
18.00£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his Syste..
11.31£
Brand: Tuttle Publishing
In 2014, Joko Widodo-popularly known as Jokowi-was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term in 2019. Raised amid poverty in a riverside slum and with a background in the furniture trade, Jok..
27.60£
Brand: The History Press
The 'steel rape' of women is a scandal that is almost forgotten today.In Victorian England, police forces were granted powers to force any woman they suspected of being a 'common prostitute' to undergo compulsory and invasive medical examinations, w..
21.46£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einste..
33.10£
Brand: Harvard University Press
The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a military coup.In the story of modern Poland, no one ..
36.85£
Brand: The History Press
Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossil..
18.31£
Brand: BookBaby
I'm not an expert in any field by any stretch. I'm just an ordinary person doing ordinary things like nursing and missionary work. Trying to help others has always been my goal, but I felt for years that something was missing. Picture this, a small ..
23.09£