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Grigory Rasputin, Siberian peasant-turned-mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. In this riveting and eye-opening short biography, Frances Welch turns her inimitable wry gaze on one of the great mysteries of Russian history...

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Mathilde Carre, notoriously known as La Chatte, was remarkable for all the wrong reasons. Like most spies she was temperamental, scheming and manipulative - but she was also treacherous. A dangerous mix, especially when combined with her infamous history...

'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned...

The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long beforeNapoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade.In 1506 Fernao Lopes, a member of his country's minor nobility,travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam,married a...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one...

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Judith Mok was born in the Netherlands, to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She trained as a classical singer and travelled the world performing as a soloist, while publishing a novel and poetry collection there. For the last twenty years she has been...

Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many, southerners and nonsoutherners alike, to have been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military historian examines the hold of Lee on the American mind...

Operation Market Garden: a plan to capture the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem and outflank the German front. In all twelve thousand airborne troops were to land, either by parachute or glider, at three drop zones and move towards their objective. As the...

`When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, `we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954736Author Alma BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in...

The book describes how Lisa Meitner, of Jewish heritage, found herself working as a physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933; how she was hounded out of the country and forced to relocate to Sweden; how...

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career...

C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told...

In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950319046Author Anna TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint M-Graphics Pub.Publisher M-Graphics Pub.Weight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

The reign of Charles I, defined by religious conflict, a titanic power struggle with Parliament - culminating in the English Civil Wars, the execution of the king and the brief abolition of the monarchy - was one of the most turbulent in English history...

L.T.C. Rolt's fame was born from his unique ability to produce works of literature from subject matter seemingly ill suited to such treatment - engineering, canals, railways, steam engines, agricultural machinery, vintage cars - such as in his classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632690050Author Diny HoogendoornFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Kathleen KattusPublisher Kathleen KattusWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470128213Author Angus KonstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036395Author Edward TimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

This book covers the period of time during which the Cayman Islands were transformed from an obscure group of three British islands in the Caribbean to the fifth largest financial centre in the world. The transition was the brainchild of the country's...

In recent years historians and political observers have vilified Mao Tse-tung and placed him in a class with tyrants like Hitler and Stalin. But, as Lee Feigon points out in his startling revision of Mao, the Chinese leader has been tainted by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAs a correspondent for Newsweek, as well as a number of Southern dailies, Stephen Lesher covered Wallace from the time of the Montgomery boycott to the end of his...

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert's kingship in the...

Covering 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship, Schoenbaum's now classic William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life received high acclaim from critics and scholars. The New York Review of Books called it "a masterpiece," and the Guardian labeled it...

Adventurous history.Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), wrote a history of Alexander the Great in ten books in clear and picturesque style for...

A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life "Kidd's biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson's religious and moral life available, and certainly it is among the few to take those two subjects...

Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry ""Buffalo Soldiers,"" and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring...

On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and...

Pirro Ligorio (1510-1583), an Italian architect and antiquarian who designed the Casino of Pius IV and large portions of the gardens of the Villa d'Este, has long been a notoriously elusive subject because of his daunting erudition and because his...

"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne...

Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Finalist A "compelling portrait" (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize -winning author) of the controversial Confederate general who later embraced Reconstruction...

A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland during WWII, Oswald Rufeisen worked as translator and personal secretary to a Nazi commander of the German police, repeatedly risking his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. A relatively unknown Jewish...

The capture of Manila from the Spanish in October 1762 was an impressive victory, masterminded by a truly extraordinary leader. It was a battle that took British forces to the edge of the known world and caused William Pitt the Elder to refer to the...

Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself,...

Sir Robert Hunter (1844-1913) is one of three figures regarded as the principal founders of the National Trust. It was he who came up with the idea for the organization, paved the way for its legal creation and served as its first Chairman. Hunter was...