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Born in June 1883 to an aristocratic Scottish family, Dorothy Gibson-Craig was brought up with dogs and horses. In 1926 she married Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Brooke, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order in World War I and a writer on equine culture. She...

"A Partisan of Vilna" is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982189917Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 822Imprint Sea Raven EnterprisesPublisher Sea Raven EnterprisesWeight(grams) 1026g

The extraordinary life of Thomas Cromwell and the real story of 'Wolf Hall'. Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation served as chief minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540, the most tumultuous period in Henry's thirty-seven-year...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This splendid portrait of Conant . . . illuminates the life of a pivotal figure in the making of U.S. nuclear, scientific, educational, and foreign policy for almost half a century. But the book is much more:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780375504877Author Edmund MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

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From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its chequered progress toward racial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112082Author Gordon S. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

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Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul...

Story of a remarkable life and the history of a movement.Book InformationISBN 9780815410157Author Kathryn Cullen-DuPontFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This is the story of a Scottish soldier who became Kitchener's right arm in the Sudan and India and distinguished himself during the Boer War.Book InformationISBN 9781873376546Author Archie HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Spellmount...

The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade...

In this major biography of the queen, Wallace MacCaffrey focuses on Elizabeth's career as a practicing politician, taking into account her testing personal experience, her temperament, her own view of her role and the constraints she frequently faced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911472001Author Karen ProudlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint KP PublishingPublisher KP Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525431831Author Ron ChernowFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1055gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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William Gladstone, 'The Grand Old Man' of nineteenth-century politics, was Prime Minister four times. Throughout his life, women, including Queen Victoria (with whom he had a somewhat strained relationship - she famously describing him as a 'half-mad...

They were the self-made men of their time. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than 1 year of formal schooling and became the nation's greatest President. Douglass spent his first 20 years as a slave, had no formal schooling, couldn't read or write and...

A profile of the career of Sir Garnet Wolseley, this text follows his rise from the rank of general to field-marshall, and subsequently to a viscount. It also covers his attempts to modernize the army against the wishes of a group of conservatives led by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093984Author Prem PrakashFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 150mm * 30mm

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Hannah Szenes grew up in a loving home filled with books, plays, and music. Unfortunately, the rise of the Nazis in her native Hungary forced Hannah to immigrate to Palestine, where she became an ardent Zionist pioneer. Haunted by the murder of the Jews...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802874825Author R. David CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a...

In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the marauding Plains Indians,and save...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122883Author John M BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 381g

Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A...

Rick Turner was one of South Africa's most original and powerful thinkers and is remembered today as a remarkable teacher and activist. For almost ten years, from 1968, when he returned to South Africa from his studies at the Sorbonne, to 1978, when he...