
S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream
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Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese...

South and West: From a Notebook
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two...

Strindberg: A Life
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Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser-August Strindberg was all...

The Fall of Heaven
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In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities,...

David Jones in the Great War
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David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one...
Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World
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The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It...
Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjut Singh
Patwant Singh and Jyoti M. Rai
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The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, contemporary of Napoleon and one of the most powerful and...

Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews
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With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming...

Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
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Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a...

Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries
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No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria...