Historical, Political, Military
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Roommate of Ann Frank
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£10.95| /Van Der Zee re-creates the life story of Fritz Pfeffer, a German born Jewish dentist, who under the name of 'Dussel' -- which means 'day-dreamer' o...
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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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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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Tales From the Back Room
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Emerging from the back rooms, ultimate insider Michael Decter treats us to a range of raunchy and riveting stories of politics in Canada. From his ...
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Tattered Banners
Paul Dry Books (US)£19.99| /War, like love, is an experience that each generation must learn for itself. Born into Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th Century, Paul Rod...
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Teddy Kollek
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem 1965 1993, symbolises the history of the nation of Israel in the twentieth century, in which he played a central r...
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The Aces of Fighting 17
Schiffer Military£63.99| /They were called the deadliest fighter squadron in action in the South Pacific; U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron Seventeen, famous with their Skull and ...
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The Albertans
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£14.99| /In honour of Alberta's Centenary year, The Albertans profiles 100 individuals from our province who have either made a significant contribution to ...
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The Changing North
CCI Press£26.99| /Imagine living through an arctic winter in shelter with no plumbing, not even an outhouse. For two months, the sun does not rise above the horizon,...
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The Clay Pigeons
Schiffer Military£31.99| /This book is centered around the author's father's World War II diary. Robert C. Sage was a B-17 pilot who flew twenty-nine missions out of Thurlei...
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The Delamere Saga
Interactive Publications£30.99| /This colourful and thoroughly researched history of the Lord Delamere branch of the British aristocracy focuses on the famous Vale Royal Abbey in C...
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The Diplomat
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /The story of the incident that forged Canada's reputation as a broker of peace and a player with outsized influence in world affairs. In a world on...
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The Doolittle Raiders
Schiffer Military£15.99| /Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick respo...
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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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