Biography: historical, political & military

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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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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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…

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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 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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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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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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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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Dead Doubles: The Portland Spy Ring [9781474609104]

The Portland Spy Ring was one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War. It seized international attention and revealed the shadowy world of d…

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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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Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist [9781788160995]

The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack Anne Lister's journals were so shocking th…

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George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch [9780241413333]

George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sov…

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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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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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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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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath [9781398506077]

'I was hooked from the first paragraph. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling t…

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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture [9780241293812]

The epic life of Toussaint Louverture The Haitian revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in November 1791, and c…

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