The O'Rahilly
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Although commemorated by Yeats's poem, Michael O'Rahilly is one of the forgotten leaders of the 1916...
The Playboy Princes: The Apprentice Years of Edward VII and Edward VIII
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A fascinating dual biography proves that controversial Royal Family membersare not necessarily only...
The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox
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In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory...
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
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"As a Brit, a woman and a liberal, Emma Sky's presence and position in Iraq following the invasion...
The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer
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Before the Thai millions and Abu Dhabi billions, Manchester City was always a club that attracted...
Their Trade is Treachery: The Full, Unexpurgated Truth About the Russian Penetration of the World's Secret Defences
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Harry Chapman Pincher is regarded as one of the finest investigative reporters of the twentieth...
Unknown Warrior - The Search for Australia's Greatest Ace
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Lest we Forget? In the case of Captain Robert Alexander (Alec) Little, Australia's greatest 'Ace',...
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau, Tom Griffith and Henry Claridge
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No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central...
Wayward Daughter: An Official Biography of Eliza Carthy
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Eliza Carthy is the daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. The clan has often been rightly...
Putty: From Tel-El-Kebir to Cambrai: the Life and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney 1861-1941
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Once described by a subordinate as "the most completely ignorant general I served during the war",...