A Biographical Dictionary of the Twentieth-Century Royal Navy: Volume 1 - Admirals of the Fleet and Admirals
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Despite its recent decline in size and influence, for much of the twentieth century the Royal Navy...
You Don't Own Me: The Life and Times of Lesley Gore
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1963-tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president. That summer,...
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017 'A deeply original and...
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Victoria's Scottish Lion: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
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From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland's finest general and a...
Richmond Unchained: The Biography of the World's First Black Sporting Superstar
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Today Bill Richmond is largely unknown to the wider public, but he was one of the most significant...
Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
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Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the...
Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography
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By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: An Intellectual Biography
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After the triumph of his intellectual biography, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now...
Roman Lives
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'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as...
Albert Schweitzer: A Biography
Nils Ole Oermann and Paul Lauer
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This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer...