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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061885440Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035837694Author Den DoverFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478764960Author D K SahaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035837687Author Den DoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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A portrait of Sarah Churchill, first Dutchess of Malborough (1660-1744). Castigated for traits which might have been applauded in a man, Sarah was described by Dr Johnson as a "good hater". She was instrumental in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639065Author J K ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

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"A moving, vital testament." -Saturday Review ”An incredible document, amazingly told and structured. Tough, but riveting.-Rachel Kushner “The best firsthand account of slavery.” -James McPherson Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be be one of...

A first-person narrative of Olaudah Equiano’s journey from his native Africa to the New World, that follows his capture, introduction to Christianity and eventual release. His story is an eye-opening depiction of personal resilience in the face of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345321008Author Noah BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159g

In 2001 Andrew Anthony occupied a comfortable position within the liberal left media. A successful Observer and Guardian journalist, he believed he was on the right side of the argument - the left side. But after the events of 11 September, he noticed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679450795Author Noa Ben Artzi-PelossofFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130g

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Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. 'This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky...

The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. During the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz by Wellington, a 14 year old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married shortly after. From then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071151Author Christian LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

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'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse,...

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Christened...

They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mums, and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets and war machines that would ensure...

This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a...

Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a...

JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE ________________________________ Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable... Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers,...

'Highly readable' Ben Macintyre 'Pacy, original and frequently chilling' Henry Hemming 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...

Rosie, a young Englishwoman from a comfortable middle-class background, left her London home in 1939 to work as an au pair in Avignon in the South of France. Even the outbreak of war later that year did little to disturb her happy life there, until 1940...

"Robert the Bruce and All That" is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland's warrior king. Gallop alongside King Robert the Bruce as he takes up the quest to free the Scots from terrifying King Edward and his bumbling...

Describes the emotions of Queen Elizabeth I. For although her great passion was for power, she was capable of more human feelings such as her love for the worthless Earl of Leicester. Also brought to life are the monarch's vanities, her favourites and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565660779Author Jean-Claude SuaresFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Thomasson-Grant PublishersPublisher Thomasson-Grant PublishersWeight(grams) 940g

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During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama himself told veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe, 'You'll get more access than anyone else', and "Renegade" is his unique story of how a political newcomer with no money and an outsider's...

Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieved what lesser men failed even to contemplate. The famous sone of a famous father, he was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. Brunel helped drive the first tunnel under...

A biography of Edward VII and his Queen Consort, Alexandra, two people who were so different yet so interdependent that the part they played on the public stage for half a century was at once unique and unrepeatable. It is also the story of high-living,...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, and married with four children. She was twenty-two and had...