Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814
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A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the...
Your Voice in My Head
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Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her...
Shaking My Briefcase: Diplomatic Stories
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Alan Charlton couldn't describe diplomacy to his small children beyond saying he went to the Embassy...
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters
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Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote ...Collected here for the...
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
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From Winston Groom, the best-selling author of Forrest Gump; Shiloh, 1862; and Vicksburg, 1863,...
The Crazy Gang
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"If we can sell Newcastle Brown to Japan, and if Wimbledon can make it to the First Division, there...
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
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When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for...
David Bowie: the Life
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Dylan Jones' engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever...
Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and...
King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut
Mark Davies, Richard Branson and Don Cameron
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The dramatic stories of the early balloonists have been strangely neglected, their daring initial...