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The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the...

He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike - until now.Two prominent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679640103Author Henry AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 588g

In this memoir, Ambassador Ray Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the cold war, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage points of an observant insider. His intellectually formative years coincided with the earliest days of the cold...

A short walk from the glistening Nile nestled in a dusty Cairo street lies the Coptic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, known locally as the Boutrosiya. If one were to enter through one of the seven doors, walk down the columned central aisle past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127864Author Stephen KotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 902gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 150mm...

An acerbic, witty, wry, bittersweet, and exquisitely penned memoir, Jani Confidential tells how Jani Allan became a world-famous columnist and reveals much of life behind the scenes at the Sunday Times. Those who remember the "Just Jani" column will be...

During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "big slicks," the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's. A former reporter for the Indianapolis Times, Martin was one of a handful of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063029194Author Jon TesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096701Author Wibke BruhnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Elias Cornelius Boudinot provides the first full account of a man who was intimately and prominently involved in the life of the Cherokee Nation in the second half of the nineteenth century and was highly influential in the opening of the former Indian...

In a mere one thousand days, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy created an entrancing public persona that has remained intact for nearly forty years. Even now, a decade after her death, she remains a figure of enduring-and endearing-interest. Yet, while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588381750Author MR Solomon Jr SeayFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701139Author John LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802060228Author Robert De RoquebruneFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)...

This book examines the role of one of the most charismatic leaders of the opposition to the Nazis within Germany. Adam von Trott zu Solz was a boy when Germany was defeated militarily in 1918 and in his youth witnessed its economic collapse. He was...

Arthur Hallam's early death was the subject of Tennyson's celebrated poem In Memoriam. As a result of its popularity, Hallam became a legendary figure, very much accepted on Tennyson's terms as being almost divinely gifted and of immense promise. While...

In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek offers a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608682690Author Jacques LusseyranFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

This story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881376510Author Graham HeywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 245g

Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was assassinated. 'As long as I live,' Stalin had said, 'not a hair of...

"Her story is adapted to move the compassion of those she visits. She has bad nerves, and seems in great disorder of mind, which she pretends to be owing to the ill usage of her father [...] She attempts to borrow money of [sic] waiters, servants, and...

The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkers Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered...

Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be published in twenty-five years. An unwelcome heir to the throne, Henri ruled over a kingdom plagued by...

Fred Bower had a full adventurous life and wrote about it in his own vivid and racy idiom. He was born in Boston, Mass. in 1871. Brought up in Liverpool, he recalls a city of two camps, when it was a common sight to see gory battles on St Patrick's day...

Nelson continues to fascinate academics as well as the general public. He is still considered one of Britain's greatest heroes and featured within the top ten of the BBC poll of such figures. But why does Nelson still remain such a prominent figure in...

Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and...

"In a very real sense, Ruairi O Bradaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and...

In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all...

Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655750959Author Arie TamirFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Valcal Software LtdPublisher Valcal Software LtdWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Previous studies of the rise of Lyndon B. Johnson have concentrated on his ruthless careerism without giving him due credit for his political brilliance, his genuine concern for minorities and the repressed, and his role in fully integrating the South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755255Author Chauncey LoomisFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993355226Author Lesley BlanchFormat PaperbackImprint Book Blast ePublishingPublisher Book Blast ePublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm

From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect...

Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing. From the author of The...

On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Memphis/Shelby County Public Library "Same Book Same Time" County-Wide Reading Pick of 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780440235507Author Homer HickamFormat...

The naval historian Eliot Morison sailed on Columbus' route to the New World before beginning to write about his life. The result of this expedition is this biography of Christopher Columbus.Book InformationISBN 9780316584784Author Samuel MorisonFormat...