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John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, music and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised...

This is the story of the life, professional achievements and personal background, challenges and achievements of Wales's leading historian. During his long career, Kenneth O. Morgan has been a prolific writer and, through his pioneering work, has become...

The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings In the long history of American demagogues, from Huey Long...

Cooking with Grease is an inspiring, behind-the-scenes memoir of the life and times of a tenacious political organizer and the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign. Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887066610Author Philippe Lacoue-LabartheFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.On a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Nathuram...

Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures-and perhaps the most important writer-of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501191718Author Ben BradleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944), a co-operator, feminist and socialist, was well known in her time as the outstanding leader of the Women's Co-operative Guild. This first full scale biography chronicles her life and achievements, intertwining...

Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, when a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late eighteenth century the person most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792789Author Syd GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 366g

'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.'After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked free...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443989Author Katie PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In her compelling and intimate portrait, presidential historian Barbara A. Perry captures Rose Kennedy's essential contributions to the incomparable Kennedy dynasty. This biography-the first to draw on an invaluable cache of Rose's newly released diaries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491546Author Raphael G. WarnockFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)...

Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061472763Author Mark RuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538711705Author Dan PfeifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476797717Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. Rahila Gupta seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us...

Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he is portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1970 and Pulitzer Prize 1970.Book InformationISBN 9780394747903Author T. Harry WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190874865Author Paul LendvaiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm * 33mm

Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated detente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127802Author Leon PanettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 457g

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insightful study of the inner life of David Ben-Gurion, the Zionist leader responsible for the creation of the state of Israel"The most intimate yet unflinching portrait to date. . . . Shapira may be the last...

Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560255314Author Jack NewfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press

Everyone who came in close contact with Mao was taken aback at the anarchy of his personal ways. He ate idiosyncratically. He became increasingly sexually promiscuous as he aged. He would stay up much of the night, sleep during much of the day, and at...

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The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048951Author John IvisonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.'- Robert Peston'The personal is so well mixed with the analytical... This is really great to read!' - Kadie Kanneh-Mason-----Samuel Kasumu was the most senior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780618154463Author Professor of History David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Mariner...

A new edition of Orwell's early account of bleak working class life in the industrial culture of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which revealed the distinctions between the upper classes of the British Empire and the reality of the people who worked in the...

There can be few statesmen whose lives and careers have received as much investigation and literary attention as Winston Churchill. Relatively little however has appeared which deals specifically or holistically with his first senior ministerial role;...

Maggie is John Sergeant's mordant analysis of Margaret Thatcher's career and, more importantly, the legacy she has left to the Conservative party, which he would argue has been little short of disastrous. He takes us from the glory days of three...

John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, music and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised...

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the outbreak of World War II,...

Winston Churchill was truly a man of the world. In his long career as a soldier and statesman, and latterly as a global celebrity and artist, he visited and wrote about the length and breadth of the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe,...