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In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to...

This highly illustrated book celebrates Queen Victoria's life and times in unparalleled depth and breadth.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalGe...

Jan Wong, A Canadian Of Chinese Descent, Went To China As A Starry-eyed Maoist In 1972 At The Height Of The Cultural Revolution. A True Believer -- And One ...

“Just when you think there can be nothing fresh to be said about the long life of Winston Churchill, along comes biographer Michael Shelden’s page-turne...

The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would...

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American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led t...

A history of National Socialist Germany is presented from the perspective of Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, and offers insight into how ...

Winner of the Dafoe Book PrizeWinner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most chari...

Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the Nor...

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy. Do yo...

Notorious for her persecution of Protestants, Queen Mary I has been vilified by generations of historians as Bloody Mary. But this award-winning biography...

Claire Tomalin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesWomen's Studies

history Buffs, Science Enthusiasts, Backyard Inventors, And Anyone Who Has Ever Dared To Dream Big Will Find The Life Of Nikola Tesla, Written In His Own W...

Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring a...

Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden — just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat — Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childh...

Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversation...

A Biography Of Edith Stein, A Jewish Woman Who Converted To Catholicism, Became A Nun, And Went On To Achieve Success In The World Of German Philosophy, Onl...

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWIA...

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage a...

A Net Of Complex Currents Flowed Across Jacobean England. This Was The England Of Shakespeare, Jonson And Bacon; Of The Gunpowder Plot; The Worst Outbreak O...

Vol. 1. Citizen Of The World : The Life Of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919-1968. John English. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biogra...

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

What happens when a smart, young stay-at-home mom decides to go back to work and hires her Ukrainian mom to nanny her two kids for 6 years? A witty, brutall...

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

This Book Is A Modest Fragment Of A Story About The Life That Millions Of Europeans Lived Until Not So Long Ago. Perhaps It Doesn't Have Any Great Artistic ...

The Inspiring Love Story That Will Change Your Life Over one hundred years ago, an “unsinkable” luxury liner sank on its maiden voyage. More than 1,500...

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

The host of Food Network's Dinner: Impossible shows busy people how to keep food simple but delicious Chef Robert Irvine goes where few chefs dare...

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...

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...

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.\Born in...

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...

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Mark Meadows] The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to j...

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...

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano RooseveltCategories: History WorldWomen in History

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

Offers A Detailed Look At The Life And Career Of The Famous World War Ii General, And Depicts His Accomplishments And Complex Personality. Prologue: Who Was...

The son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of hi...

Book by Merilyn SimondsCategories: Biographies & Memoirs HistoricalGeneral

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I’s favorite, George Villiers, the first ...

Product Description NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam DriverThe sensational true story of murder, madn...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming ...

Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most ...

Catherine Crier With Cole Thompson. Includes Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyForensic Psychology

This is the first-hand account of Rudolf's Vrba's experience as a registrar in the prison camp as well as the story of his daring escape. Categories: Hist...