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Josiah the Great
The True Story of the Man Who Would be King
Macintyre, Ben
Harper 2011
Paperback 
 
In 1838, a young adventurer surrounded by his native troops raised the American flag on the Hindu Kush and declared himself Prince of Ghor, spiritual and military heir to Alexander the Great. This was Josiah Harlan (1799-1871), the model for Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King. Based in part on Harlan's journals, this is the stranger-than-fiction story of his life and an astonishing chapter in the history of the Great Game. ...more
 
£8.99
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Stock code: 91680

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Gandhi
Naked Ambition
Adams, Jad
Quercus 2010
Hardback 
 
One of the towering figures of the 20th century, Mohandas Gandhi can truly be said to have changed the course of history. This concise, elegant biography follows his life from a privileged upbringing, through training as a barrister in London and early human rights struggles in South Africa, to the civil disobedience campaigns that led to Indian independence. Jad Adams probes the contradictions of Gandhi's complex personality, charts the development of his ideas and assesses his political legacy....more
 
£20.00
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Stock code: 91520

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John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon

Poole, Steve (Edited by)
Pickering & Chatto 2005
Hardback 
 
John Thelwall was a Romantic and Enlightenment polymath whose activities included oratory, Jacobin theorizing, the London Corresponding Society, high treason, collaboration with poets, writing plays, farming, speech therapy and phonetics. This volume brings together 14 essays by literary and historical scholars who tackle the many facets of Thelwall's life and consider them in relation to each other and within the wider context of Romantic culture and politics. No jacket....more
 
£60.00
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Stock code: 89676

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High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Ferguson, Niall
Penguin 2010
Hardback 
 
Arriving in Britain as a refugee from Hitler's Germany, Siegmund Warburg (1902-1982) created one of the most powerful finance houses in the City of London. Yet he was always far more than a financier. Ferguson, one of Britain's most renowned historians, draws on thousands of unpublished letters and journals to reveal Warburg the thinker, a man of vision who, seared by Nazism and driven by a powerful sense of responsibility, became a leading architect of European financial integration. Slightly off-mint. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. ...more
 
$35.00
Sale Price £3.99
Stock code: 89617

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The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Brandt, Anthony
Knopf 2010
Hardback 
 
In the decades following the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Admiralty sent expeditions to locate the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient through the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic. Anthony Brandt focuses on the 35 years when this national obsession was at its height, culminating in the attempt to find Sir John Franklin, leader of the final expedition, who vanished with two ships and 128 officers and men. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. American-cut pages. ...more
 
$28.95
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Stock code: 88832

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Douglas Fairbanks

Vance, Jeffrey; Maietta, Tony
California University Press 2008
Hardback Illustrated
 
They were a small band of pioneers, dedicated to breathing life into the movie industry: Fairbanks, Chaplin and Mary Pickford. Skilfully blending biography with film history, and vividly illustrated with stills and off-screen photos, this absorbing book charts their friendship, and the tragic trajectory of Fairbanks's career: the excitement of his swashbuckling dramas of the 1920s, the eclipse that followed the arrival of talking pictures, financial troubles, the collapse of his marriage to Pickford, and his early death. ...more
 
£34.95
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Stock code: 88056

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White Savage
William Johnston and the Invention of America
O'Toole, Fintan
Faber 2005
Paperback 
 
Exploring an American myth from an Irish perspective, this book traces the life and achievements of Sir William Johnson (c.1714- 1774), an Irishman who went to America in 1738. From managing his uncle's estate on the Mohawk River, Johnson built up an extraordinary relationship with the Iroquois people and a long-standing personal relationship with a Mohawk woman, led native American forces against the French and was eventually appointed British Superintendent of Indian Affairs. ...more
 
£9.99
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Stock code: 87952

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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Stonor Saunders, Frances
Faber 2010
Hardback 
 
Passionate, idealistic and independent, the Honourable Violet Gibson rejected her Anglo-Irish upbringing to find inspiration in Catholicism. In 1926, as Mussolini dragged her beloved Italy into the horrors of fascism, she tried to assassinate him. Written with sharp irony and the narrative verve of a novel, this sympathetic biography reinstates a lost heroine who almost changed the course of history, only to be consigned to a lunatic asylum by a British establishment that still viewed Italy's tyrant as a saviour....more
 
£20.00
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Stock code: 87934

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Allen Dulles: Spymaster
Spymaster
Grose, Peter
Andre Deutsch 2006
Paperback Illustrated
 
Allen Dulles (1893-1969) is a monumental figure in the history of US intelligence. The first civilian director of the CIA, he played a key role in many of the great events of the 20th century. Drawing on 2000 pages of classified CIA documents, alongside interviews with Dulles's family and former intelligence agents, this magisterial biography creates an in-depth portrait of the legendary spymaster and offers a frank account of the controversial methods he employed to advance America's interests aboard. ...more
 
£16.99
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Stock code: 87921

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The Man Who Would Not Die
The Remarkable Story of 'Lucky' Herschel McKee
Olvey, Stephen
Haynes 2008
Hardback Illustrated
 
Compulsive risk-taker Herschel McKee (1897-1965) was an extraordinary character: decorated in both World Wars, he was a mechanic, racing driver, test pilot and daredevil motorcyclist - as well as a part- time bigamist and full-time scoundrel. His tale is told in this biography written by his granddaughter's husband, who celebrates the fearless enthusiasm with which McKee repeatedly threw himself into danger, right up to his final mission flying supplies into Guantanamo under the gaze of Castro's soldiers. ...more
 
£19.99
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Stock code: 87811

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Pop
The Genius of Andy Warhol
Scherman, Tony; Dalton, David
HarperCollins 2009
Hardback Illustrated
 
To his critics, he was a cynical manipulator who debased art to the level of a commodity; to his admirers, Andy Warhol was the most important modern artist since Picasso. This searching reappraisal focuses on Warhol's artistic and personal evolution during the crucial decade of the 1960s. Drawing on new sources, including interviews with those who knew him, it offers a vivid, entertaining and provocative look at his controversial career, as well as a critical examination of his most important works. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. ...more
 
$40.00
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Stock code: 87476

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An Educated Man
A Dual Biography of Moses and Jesus
Rosenberg, David
Counterpoint 2011
Paperback 
 
Moses and Jesus frequently quote from earlier texts, revealing them as men steeped in literature and scholarship, and are themselves given the kind of close reading reserved for esteemed writers today. In this light, Rosenberg reassesses them as more than humble men of faith, shows how much Jesus owes to Moses and reflects on the importance of an understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition for today's 'educated man and woman'. ...more
 
£9.99
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Stock code: 86984

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John Adams
A Life
Ferling, John
Oxford University Press 2010
Paperback Illustrated
 
An historian of early America, Professor Ferling presents a compelling portrait of John Adams (1735-1826), one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader deeply troubled by the warfare he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. The book brings to life the exciting age in which Adams made important political and intellectual contributions and shows how 'no one played a greater role in making American independence a reality'. ...more
 
£13.99
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Stock code: 86432

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Conspirator
Lenin in Exile
Rappaport, Helen
Basic Books 2010
Hardback 
 
In a riveting account of Lenin in exile, Russian historian Helen Rappaport tells how, for 17 years, the future Russian leader lived a hand-to-mouth existence in cities such as Paris, London and Munich and in the rural backwaters of Finland and Poland. The book paints a vivid picture of Russian emigre life, the shadowy network of Bolshevik supporters, and the toll that the privations and uncertainty of their itinerant lives took on those closest to Lenin as he worked towards the 1917 Revolution. ...more
 
£16.99
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Stock code: 86410

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Bernard Shaw

Bentley, Eric
Applause 2002
Paperback 
 
Few playwrights have been subject to such extravagant praise and vituperation as the author of Pygmalion and Heartbreak House - the result, in no small part, of his own rebarbative opinions and personality. Originally published in 1947 and reissued here with a new introduction by the author, Bentley's monograph was the first balanced assessment of Shaw's life and work - and in the opinion of many, it remains the most enlightening. ...more
 
£10.99
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Stock code: 86403

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