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This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material.Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key...

No one can forget the scalding images of defiance and bravery that appeared on our television screens in 1989. Teeming masses of students made history in Tiananmen Square, uniting their voices in protest of China's Communist regime. Impassioned young...

No one can forget the scalding images of defiance and bravery that appeared on our television screens in 1989. Teeming masses of students made history in Tiananmen Square, uniting their voices in protest of China's Communist regime. Impassioned young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313483Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

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Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, 'always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality'. Whatever one's view of 'the greatest Briton', and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780385495417Author Ted GupFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465055937Author Adam ZamoyskiFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 58mm

'His book reads as an inspirational text (Emmanuel is an altruistic entrepreneur and activist who started his first charity as a teenager), and a rousing heartfelt testimony in which self-love trumps self-loathing ... his graceful book fulfils its humble...

He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party...

He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party...

In 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by John Ehrlichman, his mentor and key confidant of President Richard Nixon, in a secluded office in the Western White House. Krogh thought he was walking into a meeting to discuss the drug...

Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired by Ronald Regan and the United States Congress,...

David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'. He is, of course, best known as the Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War I,...

9 April 1960 was the day that changed Susie Cazenove's life - the day her father, David Pratt, shot the Prime Minister of South Africa, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd. Verwoerd, commonly known as the architect of apartheid, didn't die, but Pratt's family lived with...

Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519719Author Rose LuceFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 21mm

Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316633765Author Ogden ChristopherFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 900g

This is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life...

Comrade Sak charts Shapurji Saklatvala's movement from privileged Parsi beginnings as a member of the mega rich Tata dynasty to revolutionary communist. It examines his quarrel with Gandhi over the goals and tactics of the Indian independence movement...

Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world...

Winner of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay-NIF Book PrizeThe definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of Indian origin, and inspired Gandhi and Nehru...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482700Author Jim NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 704gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375505003Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 873gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226646770Author Richard ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 862Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

`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,...

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists' today. Rodney lived through the failed -though...

In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cortes was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the Republic's land reform movement, and an organizer in the farm workers'...

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century-and one of the first truly global celebrities. His story, told here in full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312377755Author Terry McAuliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Griffin Publishing

Born into a traditional Welsh valley community, Paul Murphy has been a member of the Labour Party for more than 55 years. In this book, he describes how the socialist beliefs of that community, and of his parents especially, helped to develop his own...

Known in his day as the man who built the Town Hall, Abel Heywood was a leading Manchester publisher who entertained royalty at his home and twice became Mayor of Manchester. Yet before he found success his life was one of poverty and hardship, marked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593238646Author Neal GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1264Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer," delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors-their rivalries,...

Looking at defining moments in Winston Churchill's life and revealing his key principles, philosophies and decisions, this book will teach you how to think just like Churchill.Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's...

NOW A REELZ MINISERIES STARRING KATIE HOLMES AND MATTHEW PERRYFor more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys - their joy and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, the dark side and the remarkable achievements. In this ambitious...

Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Peron continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's "first worker"; a weak and spineless man dependent on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982109714Author Omarosa Manigault NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm...