
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
Stanley G. Payne and Jesus Palacios
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General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and...

Let Me Tell You a Story: One Girl's Escape from the Nazis
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Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and...

Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov and Geoffrey Roberts
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Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov remains a national hero in today's Russia...

No Surrender: Faith, Family, and Finding Your Way
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A Navy SEAL who first overcame a crippling childhood condition and then a devastating training...

Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster: Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland
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This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de...

In the Front Line: A Doctor's Life in War and Peace
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This memoir by a Scottish doctor who was born and went on to work in Govan was found among family...

The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians
Michael Watkins, Bo Beolens and Michael Grayson
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New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new...

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography
Allan Cameron and Alfonso Scirocco
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What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary,...

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola
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"A rich and fascinating book about an overlooked African powerhouse by a travel writer of rare...

The Women In The Castle
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Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of...