Biography: historical, political & military

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls [9780141986005]

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams. I…

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The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win [9781471186738]

Billy Billingham grew up tough; a grim future ahead of him offering little respite from the hostile streets he walked. Leaving school at eleven years…

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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man [9781471190131]

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and D…

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Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion [9781780899602]

A journey deep into the story of Stranger Things, this definitive behind-the-scenes companion reveals every aspect of the Emmy-winning series that rek…

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Permanent Record [9781529035650]

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his l…

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First Man In: Leading from the Front [9780008245719]

No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true lead…

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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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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Thomas Cromwell: A Life [9781846144295]

'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in En…

Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power [9780008299576]

A gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing Street could mean for Britain. After four unremarkable decades in politics, Jer…

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Double Crossed: A Code of Honour, A Complete Betrayal [9780753552599]

At the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he led a charge across open ground…

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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…

Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill [9781785905988]

As a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. Born in abject poverty to a single mother, and with virtually no forma…

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Schoolmaster's War, A: Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance [9780300245660]

The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his f…

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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 sheph…

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JFK: Volume One [9780241185896]

The first of this two-part landmark biography of John F. Kennedy, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, takes the reader fro…

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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz [9780753545188]

** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 ** Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occu…

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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of Odette Sansom, WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy [9781912624713]

The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father's footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to ai…

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The Man in the Red Coat [9781787332164]

In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner wit…

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I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche [9780571336210]

Friedrich Nietzsche's work blasted the foundation of western thinking. The death of God, the UEbermensch, and the slave morality permeate our culture,…

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