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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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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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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A Promised Land [9780241491515]

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring,…

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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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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 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…

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 Prime Ministers: Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership [9781529312140]

It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole arguably became the first holder of the office of Prime Minister in 1721 - an office which today…

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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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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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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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Haldane: The Forgotten Statesmen Who Shaped Modern Britain [9781787383111]

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army, the British Expeditionary Force, the Imperial General Staff and the Officers' Training Corps? The ma…

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Joe Biden: American Dreamer [9781526635174]

A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democrat Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former vice president Joseph R. Biden …

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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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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Bombing of London [9780008274948]

The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill…

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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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Boris Johnson: The Gambler [9780753554906]

Tom Bower is acknowledged as Britain's leading investigative writer. His 24 bestselling books encompass a remarkably wide range of subjects. His mos…

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The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein [9781788541213]

The first illustrated biography of Hans Holbein, the painter who depicted some of the most powerful people of the early sixteenth century, in three de…

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