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  • Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed The World

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    A continuation of the New York Times bestselling series, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is a childre...

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  • Gorbachev: The Man and His Era

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2018From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era 'A phenomenally research...

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  • Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, The: The End of a Dictator's Reign

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  • HAPPY TRAITOR HB

    KUPER, SIMON
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    'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Tho...

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  • Hell Is So Green: Search And Rescue Over The Hump In World War II

    William Diebold
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    Lt. William Diebold served in the Army's Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battle....

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    Henry VIII: King and Court

    Alison Weir
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    Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in R...

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  • Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)

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    'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times 'A nail-biting escape story' Financial Times At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchil...

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  • Hitler Vol 02: Downfall 1939-45

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    'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at...

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  • Jack Malloch: Legend Of The African Skies (Paperback)

    Alan Brough
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    “Jack Malloch… the most notorious adventurer in the rugged world of African aviation.” - The British Daily Express newspaper“ In terms of ethics, c...

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  • Jerusalem: The Biography

    Simon Sebag Montefiore
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    A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, covering from ...

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  • Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

    Mark Mathabane
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    The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Af...

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  • The Kennedy Curse (Paperback)

    James Patterson, Cynthia Fagen
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    Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . r...

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  • Khwezi: The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography (Trade Paperback)

    Walter Isaacson
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    The #1 New York Times Bestseller 'Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he's simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer jo...

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  • Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Defied the Gestapo

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    The full story of a remarkable woman who has become legendary in the history of the French Resistance.In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie...

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  • Margaret Thatcher Volume 3

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    The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical ach...

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  • Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley (Paperback)

    Alison Weir
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    On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of S...

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  • Mishandel, misbruik, misken: Joey Haarhoff was my ma

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  • Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

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    In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women...

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  • Mmusi Maimane: Prophet or puppet?

    S'Thembiso Msomi
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  • Nelson Mandela: A Jacana pocket biography (Paperback)

    Colin Bundy
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    Jacana is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a new pocket biography of Nelson Mandela by the renowned South African historian, Co...

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  • No Future Without Forgiveness

    Desmond Tutu
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    No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of ag...

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  • Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

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    A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in...

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  • Playing To The Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

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