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    The Life of Castruccio Castracani

    Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd warlords in Italy. In...

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  • The Lighthouse Stevensons (Paperback)

    Bella Bathhurst
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    An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses a...

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  • The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

    Serhii Plokhy
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    1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the ...

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  • The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

    Patrick Bishop
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    SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his...

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  • The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine

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    'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

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  • The Opportunist: The Political Life of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1959 (Paperback)

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    Oswald Pirow (1890–1959) served as Minister of Defence under the nationalist Hertzog coalition. He famously prosecuted Nelson Mandela in the Treaso...

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  • The Photographer at Sixteen: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

    Wordsworth Books
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    A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autob...

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  • THE REB AND THE REBEL

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    The origin and development of the South African Jewish Community is one small part of a vast and varied literature on the formation of 19th century...

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    The relatively public life of Jules Browde

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  • The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (Paperback)

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    Author: Sisonke Msimang / Supplier: Jonathan Ball

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  • The Scandalous Lady W: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce (by the bestselling author of The Five)

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    'Deliciously lurid' Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times bestselling author of The Five exposes the divorce that scandalised Georgian England.She was a spi...

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  • The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough (Paperback)

    Hugo Vickers
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    **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020**'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her contemporaries...

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  • The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets

    Marcia Mitchell
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    INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION ...

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  • The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets

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    'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph O...

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  • The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz (Paperback)

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    One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020 One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore...

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  • THINGS JOE BIDEN'S FATHER TOLD HIM PB

    GUINNESS, JOHN
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    Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to his son and our 46th pre...

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  • To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape

    Charles Spencer
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    How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded i...

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  • Verwoerd: So onthou ons hom (Hersiene uitgawe)

    Wilhelm J. Verwoerd
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  • 9781471179433

    WHEN TIME STOPPED PB

    Ariana Neumann
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    KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS 'Beautifully told' John le Carre 'More than just ...

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  • Winnie Mandela: A Life (Trade Paperback)

    Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob
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    Few people have courted as much controversy or evoked such strong and divergent emotions as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Adored by some, abhorred by ...

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  • Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War

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    The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But...

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  • Young Stalin (Paperback)

    Simon Sebag Montefiore
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    Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When di...

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  • The Eyes Of Gaza (Trade Paperback)

    Plestia Alaqad
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    In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent graduate with dreams of becoming a successful journalist. By the end of November, sh...

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  • Citizen: My Life After The White House (Hardcover)

    Bill Clinton
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    A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, ...

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