Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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Roots of the Future
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /A rabbi, an arms smuggler, a collaborator and a spy, he has flirted with danger, been trailed and jailed, and broken his share of laws. Yet through...
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Rufus
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /As they shook hands and sat down across from each other in the stark office, Rufus knew that history was being made... Chronicling the true life of...
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Rutherford B Hayes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£101.99| /It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor ...
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Rutherford B Hayes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor ...
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Saladin
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£10.99| /Text in Arabic. Saladin was an outsider whose life was filled with paradox. Famous for driving the crusaders out of Jerusalem, and becoming the mos...
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Salar al-Dowleh
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£43.99| /Salar al-Dowleh, the madcap prince and serial rebel, was a reflection of the unsettled political times during the early 1900s when Iranian society ...
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Sam Steele
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Sam Steele, "the man who tamed the Gold Rush," had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Bio...
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Seven Slovak Women
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.99| /This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ...
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She Won The Vote For Women
Great Plains Publications£12.99| /Lillian Beynon Thomas' suffragist campaign succeeded where all others had failed. This full-length biography fills an important gap in the history ...
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Siauw Giok Tjhan
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Siauw Giok Tjhan (1914-1981) was one of the most influential Chinese Indonesian political leaders active in the early decades following Indonesias...
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Signers of the Declaration
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /This book incorporates a comprehensive survey of sites and buildings associated with the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The book highl...
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Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman?
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 185...
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Smugglers of the West
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...
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Spook War
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book gives a glimpse and a tour into the primary and collateral events triggered when the Reagan Administration abruptly shifted three decades...
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SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Theodor Teddy Wisch
Schiffer Military£22.99| /This biography examines, in great detail, the life of Theodor Wisch, Waffen-SS General and Swords to the Knights Cross holder. A member of the Lei...
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SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst August Krag
Schiffer Military£18.99| /This biography of Ernst August Krag, offers a close look at one of the elite troops most decorated officers. Examining his career from the pre-war...
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Stepan Bandera -- The Life & Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£37.99| /"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Ban...
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Stories of Service
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /Perfectly blending a vast historical scope with intensely individual viewpoints, this stirring collection of stories brings a man-on-the-ground per...
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Story of Sir Peter Blake
Libro International (NZ)£16.99| /Sir Peter Blake was a New Zealand hero -- sailor, adventurer, leader and environmentalist. Competing in ocean races, he clocked up as many sea mile...
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Strangling of Persia
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country. He went with the blessing of...
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Subtle Moments
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journa...
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Suitcases & Backpacks
Dekel Publishing House£5.95| /This is a testimony of intricate detail that describes a young girl's survival in ghettos and concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Readers fo...
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Sultan Selim I
Blue Dome Press (US)£11.99| /Sultan Selim I was an extraordinary sultan who virtually re-established the Ottoman state. This work relates his approach to developments in his ti...
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Surviving the Gulag
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...
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