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The acclaimed biography delving into the real Keir Starmer for the first time in an updated paperback.Book InformationISBN 9781783341597Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square Books Ltd

Neville Duke is well known in aviation circles, not only as a successful fighter pilot, but also as a test pilot with the Hawker Aviation Company.Joining the RAF at the start of the war, he found himself in 1941 with 92 Squadron at RAF Biggin Hill. That...

One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of...

What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir, the voice of innocence is heard.""This is great stuff,"" exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose.""I love this book.""In this gripping account, a boy and his mother are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467880688Author Tony ColesFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 405g

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The first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot. In January 2020, the T. S. Eliot estate finally published the largest and most eagerly awaited cache of new materials written by the...

A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regimeWhy did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too...

An English translation of Daniel Cordier’s epic portrait and memoir of the French Resistance during WWII. Daniel Cordier’s fascinating, intimate memoir is a major contribution to our understanding of the fraught and historic relations between General...

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639457878Author R Lee MaheeFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Writers Branding LLCPublisher Writers Branding LLCWeight(grams) 318g

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The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn of the modern age. China is a vast country with a long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873488Author Ellery Sedgwick JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982189948Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Sea Raven EnterprisesPublisher Sea Raven EnterprisesWeight(grams) 162g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835631447Author James M IrvineFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789699988394Author Fatima JinnahFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peace PublicationsPublisher Peace Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631529313Author Clara TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes PressWeight(grams) 404g

This book traces the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), who is rightly revered as one of the greatest of all engineers. His leading role in the transport revolution of the nineteenth century, and especially in the building of the Great Western...

The first book by the great French radical historian Maurice Dommanget (1888–1976) to be translated into English, this book is an engaging, sympathetic telling of the life and works of Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), an unjustly forgotten figure of the...

The incredible story of an explorer caught up in international intrigue at the dawn of US history AndrÉ Michaux was the most famous scientific explorer of North America before Lewis and Clark. His work took him from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay, and it is...

The first modern biography of one of the richest nobles of English history, Henry Vs closest friend and a legend in his own lifetime.Book InformationISBN 9781803997179Author David BrindleyFormat PaperbackImprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History...

Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state – a bulwark against the Russians and a block...

From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716–1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright’s life as a means to better understand the complex struggle for power in both...

Sir John Vanbrugh is celebrated today as one of England's finest country house architects. His masterpieces include palatial private homes such as Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, greatly admired by any enthusiast of English Baroque architecture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737246Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306000Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737239Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 526g

The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the iconic Hershey candy, eclipse that of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins combined. Even more stunning is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513220123Author Elizabeth KeckleyFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306017Author Jacob AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932096095Author Janet BengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Emerald Books,U.S.Publisher Emerald Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Be inspired by this grassroots civil rights lawyer's quest for democracy, equality, and justice Born in 1947 and raised in rural South Carolina, Lewis Pitts grew up oblivious to the civil rights revolution underway across the country. A directionless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883002503Author Janet BengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint YWAM Publishing,U.S.Publisher YWAM Publishing,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638640059Author Jeff BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Basalt BooksPublisher Basalt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639457861Author R Lee MaheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Writers Branding LLCPublisher Writers Branding LLCWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948223Author Liann TsoukasFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Heartstrings: A Tale of Danish Loyalty, Resistance, and Homecoming is about the ties that bind us to our families, our social institutions, and our country of birth. It is a story of a region and its people at a particularly challenging time in history...

The War Came to Me is a testament to the many persons throughout Europe that risked their lives to save Jews from the extermination effort by the Nazis. This book tells the story of the courageous and compassionate Dutch citizens who helped two young...