Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln gets to the heart of young Lincoln's life and the origins of his reputation as "honest Abe". This biography is fu...
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The Fatal Lure of Politics
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he...
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The Fifty Greatest Women in American History
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£141.99| /Over the past several hundred years, many women have made major, significant contributions to society, to their countries and to their field of end...
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The Great Successor: Kim Jong Un A Political Cartoon
Hungry Dictator Press (US)£16.99| /Where there is tyranny there is resistance! The 3rd generation successor will not escape the resistance of his people! This book details the realit...
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The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft is the heretofore untold true story of Reimar, Wolfram, and Walter Horten's remarkable aeronautical...
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The Imperial German Eagles in World War I
Schiffer Military£72.99| /Where the preceding two books of this pioneer series focused on the World War I German aviators featured on Sanke postcards, this final volume exam...
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The Imperial German Eagles in World War I, Vol. 2
Schiffer Military£63.99| /This book, the second in a planned three-part series, looks at the remainder of Sankes aviator cards numbered 544-685. Sanke, Liersch and NPG postc...
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The Indian Commissioners
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Between 1873 and 1932, Indian policy on the prairies was the responsibility of federal government appointees known as Indian Commissioners. Charged...
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The Lady Named Thunder
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Dr. Margaret Phillips was a pioneering missionary who served in China at a time when women were usually dutiful wives, and certainly not unmarried ...
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The Last Fighting General
Schiffer Military£31.99| /This is the full story of the legendary U.S. Army officer who formed, trained, and led the unique bi-national First Special Service Force (popularl...
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The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£318.99| /In her early years, Queen Victoria formed the habit of methodologically preserving her private letters. After her accession to the throne, she trea...
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The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£318.99| /In her early years, Queen Victoria formed the habit of methodologically preserving her private letters. After her accession to the throne, she trea...
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The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£318.99| /In her early years, Queen Victoria formed the habit of methodologically preserving her private letters. After her accession to the throne, she trea...
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The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /This book, originally published in 1914, is a unique telling of the life of Cleopatra. The author, a well-learned historian of his time, offers a t...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£274.99| /The work here was begun in 1894 at the suggestion of Mr. S. S. McClure and Mr. J. S. Phillips, editors of McClures Magazine. Their desire was to a...
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The Long and Winding Road
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Highway 97 winds its way from the high desert plains of northern California to the Yukon-British Columbia border, making it North America's longest...
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The Long Walk Home
Brindle & Glass (CA)£23.99| /The Canadian media were the first to bring Master Corporal Paul Franklin's story to the public, and it is only fitting that award-winning journalis...
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The Man in Blue Pyjamas
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji...
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /How the city reporters of the 1950s must have loved Major Matthews. Eminently quotable, forthright and provocative in speech . . . his mere presenc...
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The Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The Marshall Story, A Biography of General George C. Marshall
Brick Tower Press (UK)£24.95| /This is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes h...
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The Metamorphosis
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or su...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...
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The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
Dekel Publishing House£14.99| /Uriel Bachrach was born in Germany in 1926 and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1945 he began studying chemistry at The Hebrew University in Jer...
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The Powerbroker
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors ...
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The Remarkable Chester Ronning
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator...
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The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbrin...
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The Right Fight
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose...
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The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Setting out to visit his friends in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and with all intentions to return to the United States to attend Columbia University ...
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The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, Tappan Adney embarked on his first trip to New Brunswick. He had plans to enrol at Columbia University in t...
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The War Diaries of a Panzer Soldier
Schiffer Military£54.99| /This book is a unique personal account of the war on the Russian Front, written using the diaries and photos of Erich Hager who served in the 39th ...
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The War Diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert
Schiffer Military£31.99| /Aerial combat over the Russian front from one who knew it first hand. Hauptmann Helmut Lipferts vivid portrayal of his experiences in JG 52 during ...
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The Wolves at Evelyn
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /At once a memoir, a work of philosophy, a story of European immigration to Canada's dark places of the earth, and an exploration of the roots and e...
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The Women of the American Revolution
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /When Elizabeth F Ellet compiled her history of "The Women of the Revolution," she could not have foreseen the deep interest in Colonial and Revolut...
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Theodor Herzl
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /You would think that everything there is to say about Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism, has already been written and published. In fact, the...
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Thinking Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£21.99| /Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of William Coope...
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