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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure...For lovers...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
Guderian: Panzer General
Author: Kenneth Macksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Born in Kulm, Germany, on 17 June 1888, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was the son of an army officer. He eventually joined...
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian "brings to life the full drama of ancient history" (Wall...
Destination Casablanca Exile
Author: Meredith Hindley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 454 The thrilling life of aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Author: Philippe Girard
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Number of Pages: 352
The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
Author: Evert Kleynhans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition, undermine the Allied war effort, and - given the strategic importance of...
'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond
Author: Don Hale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
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...
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
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Author: Georgina Howell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which,...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon'
Author: Eugenia Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 206 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and...
The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Author: Simon Doubleday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults...
Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
Author: Robert Carmichael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' Jon Swain, writer...
Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies....
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1939-1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Despatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940 by General Sir Archibald...
Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader
Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership "Abraham Lincoln had less...
Hellfire: Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War
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First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
Author: C-SPAN C-SPAN Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 On the heels of the successful TV series, C-SPAN presents the complete biographies of all 45 First Ladies in...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Paperback 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...
Charles Dickens
Author: Jane Smiley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Corrado Vivanti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thought This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the...
Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed: A Pictorial History of the Anzacs in the Aegean 1915-16
Author: Jim Claven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Lemnos was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-16. its great harbour of Mudros Bay witnessed the arrival of the...
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Author: William M. Arkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centres on drones, now...
Mayday The Decline of American Naval Supremacy
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Author: Seth Cropsey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Timely and urgent, Mayday is a clarion call to action--before it's too late. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime...
Hitler: A Global Biography
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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
American Scoundrel
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: Tom Keneally Format: Hardback...
Disaster in the Far East 1941-1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 516 Dispatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide
Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
Governing from the Skies A Global History of Aerial Bombing
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Author: Thomas Hippler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is...