Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
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This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the...
Prison Diaries
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Two days before Christmas 2013, former MP Denis MacShane entered one of Europe's harshest prisons....
Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography
Tamas Krausz and Balint Bethenfalvy
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century....
Roy Jenkins
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This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa...
Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Government, 1195-1218
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Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade,...
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
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Lives don't get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary...
The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the...
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
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Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and...
Bertolt Brecht
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Known for his experimental, modernist Epic Theatre and its 'alienation effect', Bertolt Brecht (1898...
Chinese Rules: Five Timeless Lessons for Succeeding in China
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From the author of the acclaimed 'Mr. China' comes another rollicking adventure story - part memoir,...