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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...

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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...

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles...

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Geoffrey of Monmouth, a twelfth-century cleric, was the first person to compose a detailed and continuous history of Britain from its origins to the domination of the Anglo-Saxons. His writings were enormously popular throughout the western European...

Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419760181Author Emma SouthonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 155mm *...

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...

Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother and the mother of Randolph Churchill, the 7th Duchess of Marlborough, has been a slight figure in many other people's biographies yet her own story as a member of a remarkable family has never been fully told,...

On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard, who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort...

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Castletown House, Ireland's largest and earliest Palladian-style house, was built between 1722 and 1729 for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland. In 1967, the house was bought by the Hon. Desmond...

1.5 million Polish civilians - arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 - were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376578Author Ji XianlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

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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...

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...

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Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle that was going on in the...

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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...

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A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Konigsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was percecuted first as a ""certified...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409101Author Lindie NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Cundill Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781416593331Author David Hackett FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Born in 1904, Brandt played a major role in the first mass killing programme of the Third Reich, the so called 'euthanasia' programme. As Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in the Nazi regime;...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm...

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...