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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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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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…

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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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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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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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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…

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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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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 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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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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Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace [9781848876606]

Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has never been a connection like that between Churchil…

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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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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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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone [9780241324745]

How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the wom…

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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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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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Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth [9780008116071]

A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Za…

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