The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace
Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson
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'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ...can possibly have value.' So...
The Double Life of Fidel Castro: The Hidden World of Cuba's Greatest Leader
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There are few living international figures who fascinate the world more than Fidel Castro. He is at...
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources
Anthony A. Barrett, Elaine Fantham and John C. Yardley
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Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the...
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
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The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary...
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815
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'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular...
Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
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THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard...
Li Mengyang, the North-South Divide, and Literati Learning in Ming China
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Li Mengyang (1473-1530) was a scholar-official and man of letters who initiated the literary...
Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives
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Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery...
Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
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Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an...