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From His Teenage Years In Provincial Russia To His Premature Death In 1904, Anton Chekhov Wrote Thousands Of Letters To A Wide Range Of Correspondents. This...

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth ...

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

A Timely, Riveting Book That Presents For The First Time An Alternative History Of 1930s Britain, Revealing How Prominent Fascist Sympathizers Nearly Succee...

This Volume Is The First Fully Illustrated Book About Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) And The Early Years Of The Telephone - An Invention That Transformed...

Tells The Interwoven Stories Of Two Men--hawley Crippen, A Very Unlikely Murderer, And Guglielmo Marconi, The Obsessive Creator Of A Seemingly Supernatural ...

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, ...

"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I...

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our in...

A reference on British royalty, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdo...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

The Author Examines The Great Naval Battle Of Trafalgar, Fought Between The British And Franco-spanish Fleets In 1805, And Uses It To Examine Our Idea Of He...

With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England—from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionhe...

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust – A Moving Account of Jewish Girls' Extraordinary Resilience and Courage by Clothes Hi...

Draws On New Scholarship To Present A Biography Of Isabella Of Castile, The Controversial Queen Of Spain Who Sponsored Christopher Columbus' Journey To The ...

In this gripping account a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives to forge a path through the storm of war and the rubble of its afterma...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empir...

Pulitzer Prize Winnerover Five Months On The New York Times Bestseller List tremendously Compelling, Somehow Dramatic And Intimate At The Same Time-the Ne...

He Was History's Most Creative Genius. What Secrets Can He Teach Us? The [bestselling Biographer] Brings Leonardo Da Vinci To Life In This Exciting New Biog...

Joachim Fest ; Translated From The German By Margot Bettauer Dembo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [175]-181) And Index.Categories: Biographies &am...

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS sho...

New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true stor...

“makes A Reader Feel Like A Time Traveler Plopped Down Among Men Who Were By Turns Vicious And Visionary.”—the Christian Science Monitor the Modern Ame...

The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after ...

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our ...

Product Description “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” â...

Who Is Vladimir Putin? In Mr. Putin, Russia Experts Fiona Hill And Clifford Gaddy Argue That Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, Is In Fact A Man Of Many An...

The official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne JonesIn 1834, Anne Lister made history by cel...

Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union duri...

The Epic Tale Of The Rise To Power Of Russia's Current President--of His Emergence From Shrouded Obscurity And Deprivation To Become One Of The Most Consequ...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | "As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’Long before Manc...

In 1943, Primo Levi, A 25-year-old Chemist And Italian Citizen Of Jewish Race, Was Arrested By Italian Fascists And Deported From His Native Turin To Auschw...

The veteran tells his grandson about his World War II experiences, without pathos, but with gripping, brutal honesty. What awaits the reader: “Deeply sho...

the Women Who Wed Henry Viii Are Remembered Mainly For The Ways Their Royal Marriages Ended: Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. This B...

An Account Of The Worst Cholera Outbreak In Victorian London--and An Exploration Of How Dr. John Snow's Solution Revolutionized The Way We Think About Disea...

The Third Reich was the twentieth century’s most popular tyranny. After Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, most of Germany’s civil servants and profession...

Born In A Surreal Moscow Communal Apartment Where Eighteen Families Shared One Kitchen, The Author Grew Up Singing Odes To Lenin, Black-marketeering Juicy F...

Privileged access to both the Queen and Prince Philip is the key to this revealing and engrossing royal biography.This is the first major biography of the ...

Written Directly After Combat, Rommel Critiques His Own Battle Strategies And Tactics During World War I In An Attempt To Learn Further From His Losses And ...

Excerpts From The Author's Diary, Begun When She Was Eleven, Describes Life In Sarajevo Under Siege. Zlata Filipović ; With An Introduction By Janine Di Gi...

“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exa...

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

Elio Costa And Gabriele Scardellato. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Historical EuropeItaly

A Biography Of Reinhard Heydrich And His Wife, Lina Von Osten Heydrich-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gov...

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of ...

Takes a detailed look at each ruler, revealing their life, achievements and failures, as well as their impact on the wider world. Now in a new handy-forma...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...