Biography: historical, political & military

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls [9780141986005]

'A must-have for the nightstand of every girl or young woman you know' - Geri Stengel, Forbes Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy…

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Leonardo Da Vinci [9781471166761]

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that…

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Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs [9781846149641]

The definitive visual biography of the Obama presidency, captured in intimate and unprecedented detail by the official White House photographer - and …

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Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics [Ed Balls] [9781786330390]

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Witty, reflective and engaging . (Nick Robinson). Honest and revealing . (Michael Palin). Fascinating, heartfelt . (Kay B…

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The Victoria Letters: The Official Companion to the ITV Victoria Series [9780008196837]

The official companion to the ITV drama, Victoria, with a foreword by Daisy Goodwin. The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the you…

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First Man In: Leading from the Front [9780008245719]

From the front man of Channel 4's hit show, SAS: Who Dares Wins No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's ch…

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Rasputin: The Biography [9781447245841]

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Sibe…

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Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir [9781509837199]

Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for …

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Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes [9781408844045]

Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a tim…

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Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine [9781782398103]

In the mid seventeenth century, England was divided by war and bloodshed. Torn apart by rival factions, father opposed son and brother met brother on …

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Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941 [9780713999457]

Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would…

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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District [9780141979366]

This is the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller. Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepher…

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Certain Idea of France, A: The Life of Charles de Gaulle [9781846143519]

The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern timesIn six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troop…

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Riot Days [9780241316429]

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment i…

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Stalin: v. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 [9780141027944]

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gambl…

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Victoria: A Life [9781848879584]

'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before publis…

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The Long and Winding Road [9780593076033]

From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson's multi-award-winning autobiography c…

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White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr [9780701185862]

Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against famil…

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Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters [9780241328491]

Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, a…

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Grant [9781788541596]

One of the finest biographers of our time, and author of the million-selling Alexander Hamilton, has written a majestic life of perhaps the most …

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