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Historical & Political Biographies

  • A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

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    'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, Ge...

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  • A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, Spy

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    In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; ...

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  • Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

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    'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the YearAdam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential ...

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  • Agent Sonya

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    A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His best book yet' The Times 'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven indivi...

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  • Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army

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    In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers...

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  • Bantu Holomisa: The game changer

    Eric Naki
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    Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa's most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for...

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  • Begging to Be Black

    Antjie Krog
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    In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog's stoep.  In B...

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  • BLACK WOMANISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

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    Janet Hodgson tells the inspiring story of Emma Sandile (1842-1892)-Princess Emma, as she was known in southern African colonial circles-in a narra...

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  • Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson

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    THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A...

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  • Boris Johnson: The Gambler TPB

    Bower, Tom
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    'EXPLOSIVE... Contains a string of startling revelations about Mr Johnson's public and personal life, and goes farther than any previous biography ...

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  • Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

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    'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery o...

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  • CHURCHILL & SON TPB

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    'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows how central Winston and Randolph were to ea...

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  • Arik

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  • Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris

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    The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris d...

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  • Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power

    Anthony Butler
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    The 53rd ANC National Conference held in Maungang saw the return of Cyril Ramaphosa to the centre stage of national politics. To the great surprise...

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  • Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

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    'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that...

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  • Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

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    The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two ...

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  • Enemy of the people: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back

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  • Fey's War

    Catherine Bailey
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    **Formerly published as The Lost Boys** 'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from ...

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  • Florence Nightingale

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    Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whet...

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  • Franci's War

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    Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achi...

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  • FRANCIS I BPB

    Leonie Frieda
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    'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times 'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biogr...

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  • Generaal Ben Viljoen, 1868-1917 (Afrikaans Edition)

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  • Goeiemore Mnr Mandela

    Zelda la Grange
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    Zelda la Grange het grootgeword as 'n ondersteuner van die reels wat wit en swart skei. En tog sou sy een van Nelson Mandela se naaste vertroueling...

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