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  • A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum 9780197694909

    A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum 9780197694909

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    A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and...
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  • Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame by John Guy

    Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame by John Guy

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    The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the...
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  • The Cleopatras by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781472295163

    The Cleopatras by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781472295163

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    'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film.She...
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  • Never Will I Die: The inspiring Special Forces soldier who cheated death and learned to live again by Toby Gutteridge

    Never Will I Die: The inspiring Special Forces soldier who cheated death and learned to live again by Toby Gutteridge

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    There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic and conclusive. I slump silently on to my knees and topple forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads have seen enough death to assume mine is instantaneous...
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  • Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings

    Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings

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    'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a...
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  • The Man Within: Winston Churchill an Intimate Portrait by Alison Carlson

    The Man Within: Winston Churchill an Intimate Portrait by Alison Carlson

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    Fifty years after his passing, The Man Within is meant to reinvigorate the spirit of Winston Churchill-approachable rather than academic, lively rather than staid. This collection features exceptional black-and-white photos, many of which are...
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  • The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson

    The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson

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    Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the greatest British art form ever invented, these...
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  • King: The Life of Martin Luther King Jonathan Eig 9781471181030

    King: The Life of Martin Luther King Jonathan Eig 9781471181030

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    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the...
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  • Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832

    Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832

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    'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual...
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  • The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright

    The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright

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    Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the...
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  • Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177

    Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177

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    The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her...
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  • Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid by Tim Tate

    Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid by Tim Tate

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    The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of...
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  • Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump 9781471190131 [USED COPY]

    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump 9781471190131 [USED COPY]

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    In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how...
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  • Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249

    Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249

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    Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus...
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  • The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters' Heroism During the Nazi Era by Ida Cook 9780778388098

    The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters' Heroism During the Nazi Era by Ida Cook 9780778388098

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778388098Author Ida CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Park RowPublisher Park RowWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 20mm
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  • Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird

    Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird

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    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch' The New York Times Book Review...
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  • The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon

    The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon

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    Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was...
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  • The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue

    The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue

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    An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence...
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  • Seven Troop by Andy McNab 9780552158664 [USED COPY]

    Seven Troop by Andy McNab 9780552158664 [USED COPY]

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    They were like a band of brothers...In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP.This is Andy McNab's gripping account of the time he served in the...
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  • Seven Troop by Andy McNab

    Seven Troop by Andy McNab

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    They were like a band of brothers...In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP.This is Andy McNab's gripping account of the time he served in the...
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  • The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy by Ben Pimlott

    The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy by Ben Pimlott

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    An updated edition of Ben Pimlott's classic biography of the Queen: 'There is no better biography of Elizabeth II.' PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sunday 'A magisterial biography and the only one that seriously deals with her constitutional...
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  • Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie

    Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie

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    A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First...
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  • Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs): England's Protector by David Horspool

    Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs): England's Protector by David Horspool

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    The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackAlthough he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall...
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  • A Suppressed Cry: The Short Life of a Victorian Daughter by Victoria Glendinning 9781844089161

    A Suppressed Cry: The Short Life of a Victorian Daughter by Victoria Glendinning 9781844089161

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    'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria...
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  • Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History by John Man 9780062202673

    Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History by John Man 9780062202673

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202673Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...
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  • The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne De Courcy 9780753812556 [USED COPY]

    The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne De Courcy 9780753812556 [USED COPY]

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    The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most...
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  • The Viceroy's Daughters Anne de Courcy 9780753812556

    The Viceroy's Daughters Anne de Courcy 9780753812556

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    The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most...
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  • The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger

    The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger

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    Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.A...
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  • Martin Luther Lyndal Roper 9781784703448

    Martin Luther Lyndal Roper 9781784703448

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door...
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  • Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay 9780691178332

    Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay 9780691178332

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    Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements...
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  • Inside The Third Reich Albert Speer 9781842127353

    Inside The Third Reich Albert Speer 9781842127353

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    The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man.'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler...
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  • In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

    In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

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    'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst...
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  • The Songaminute Man: How music brought my father home again by Simon McDermott

    The Songaminute Man: How music brought my father home again by Simon McDermott

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    The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father's dementia. A tribute to the unbreakable bond between father and...
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  • Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas 9780718016166

    Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas 9780718016166

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    From the New York Timesbest-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreakingbiography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentiethcentury, a man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive,deeply moving narrative,...
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  • Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco Tim Blanning 9780241705148

    Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco Tim Blanning 9780241705148

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    'Tim Blanning's riotous biography... is impossible to read without thinking of picaresque characters such as Fielding's Tom Jones and Thackeray's Barry Lyndon... [an] irresistible feast of a biography of the now oft-forgotten Polish king... whom he...
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  • Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696

    Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696

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    Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking.German...
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  • The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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    He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as...
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  • Blue Ambition: The Unauthorised Biography of Kemi Badenoch Michael Ashcroft 9781785908620

    Blue Ambition: The Unauthorised Biography of Kemi Badenoch Michael Ashcroft 9781785908620

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    During the Conservative Party leadership contest in the summer of 2022, Kemi Badenoch made an immediate impression on the public as a politician with robust views and a strong personality. Although only a junior minister at the time, she was marked out...
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  • Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer 9780861546848

    Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer 9780861546848

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    Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L...
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  • Blood and Sand: 10th Anniversary Edition by Frank Gardner

    Blood and Sand: 10th Anniversary Edition by Frank Gardner

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    On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure...
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