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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond
Author: Don Hale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he...
The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right
Author: Enzo Traverso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
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Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer
Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before....
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
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Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . ....
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future
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Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power
Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War
Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The Times In the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony
Author: Darren Byler (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated...
From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
Author: John Pomfret Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War,...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Age of Assassins: The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World
Author: Michael Newton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing...
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
Author: Andrew Whitby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
Author: David Frum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this...
Drums In The Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right
Author: Joe Mulhall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk,...
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Author: Philippe Girard
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
Author: Dick Lehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles
Author: Joseph O Chapa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our...
The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
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Author: Douglas London Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents...
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win
Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 #1 New York Times Bestseller Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation...
Kim and Jim: Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War
Author: Michael Holzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. He was one of the...
The World: A Brief Introduction
Author: Richard Haass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 New York Times Bestseller An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone,...
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You
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Author: Parag Khanna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like...
How Good is Scott Morrison?
Author: Peter van Onselen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating...
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
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Author: Vicky Osterweil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of...