Biography: historical, political and military Books
Penguin Putnam Inc Life On The Mississippi
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Story of My Life
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£8.05
Basic Books Napoleon
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£38.00
The University of Michigan Press Mary Schafer American Quilt Maker
Book SynopsisMary Schafer is cited as being largely responsible for the rescue of the quintessential American folk art of quilt making. Gwen Marston presents Schafer as an unassuming scholar, devoted to historical accuracy and determined to make quilting available to as many people as possible.
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The University of Michigan Press Breaking Ground
Book SynopsisTwelve women archaeologists are examined in this volume, including Jane Dieulafoy, Gertrude Bell, and Dorothy Garrod. Often overlooked, they each played a pioneering role in the development of their scientific discipline.
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The University of Michigan Press Q. Aurelius Symmachus
Book SynopsisSymmachus was a brilliant orator, writer, and statesman, often labeled as one of the last pagan senators. This book offers a reconstruction of the political career of Symmachus through an analysis of his writings, while also proposing a critical reevaluation of his historical importance. It is aimed at scholars and students of Late Antiquity.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Leadership in War
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Problem of Democracy
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£17.00
Random House USA Inc Titans of History
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history. These titans of history—encompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorers—lived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint l’Ouverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world events—from anci
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Alfred A. Knopf Bridge to the Sun
Book SynopsisOne of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers—the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei—first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei—many of them volunt
£27.00
Alfred A. Knopf The Man in the Red Coat
Book SynopsisFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending—a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. • “A pleasure to read in every way.” —The New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Époque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. In
£28.00
Houghton Mifflin The Mantle of Command
Book SynopsisA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II.Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful—and underappreciated—leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch—the invasion of French Northwest Africa—and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. The Mantle of Command is an intimate, sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict.This bold argument . . . will u
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Mariner Books War and Peace 3 Fdrs Final Odyssey DDay to Yalta
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£999.99
Mariner Books Commander in Chief 2 Fdrs Battle with Churchill
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Random House USA Inc Washingtons Spies The Story of Americas First Spy
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£18.00
Random House USA Inc Flags of Our Fathers
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£19.80
Random House USA Inc Founding Martyr
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£15.29
Random House USA Inc 41 A Portrait of My Father
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. A unique and intimate biography, the book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush’s life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and President. The book shines new light on both the accomplished statesman and the warm, decent man known best by his family. In addition, George W. Bu
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Brothers in Arms Press LLC Brothers in Arms Remembering Brothers Buried Side
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£33.25
Random House USA Inc It Was All a Lie
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Random House USA Inc The Fixers
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£23.19
Diversified Publishing The Splendid and the Vile
Book SynopsisThe best-selling author of Dead Wake draws on personal diaries, archival documents and declassified intelligence in a portrait of Winston Churchill that explores his day-to-day experiences during the Blitz and his role in uniting England. (military history). Simultaneous. Maps.
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Diversified Publishing Our First Civil War Patriots and Loyalists in the
Book SynopsisA fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation.—The Washington PostFrom best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot. What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? That is the question H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament. Even so, he revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently. William Franklin might have been expected to join his father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to the British. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friend of the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger to the Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced as traitors--for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced to choose sides as civil war broke out around them. After the Revolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and founding fathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts best forgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.
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Random House USA Inc The Destructionists
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnistIn 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt. In the quarter century in between, Americans have witnessed the crackup of the party of Lincoln and Reagan, to its current iteration as a haven for white supremacists, political violence, conspiracy theories and authoritarianism.Following the questionable careers of party heavyweights Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitch McConne
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Penguin Books Ltd The West
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£25.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Untold Power
Book SynopsisA nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and powerWhile this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was.For the first time, we have a biogr
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Alfred A. Knopf Our Ancient Faith
Book SynopsisAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln PrizeIt is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and its most subtle defender, Allen Guelzo again demonstrates that he is today’s most profound interpreter of this nation’s history and significance. —George F. WillAbraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know less about Lincoln’s penetrating ideas and beliefs about democracy, which were every bit as important as his character in sustaining him through the crisis.Allen C. Guelzo, one of America’s foremost experts on Lincoln, captures the pre
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dickens and Prince
Book Synopsis“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —VogueFrom the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star PrinceEvery so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince.Equipped with a fan’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries—each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose leg
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Diversified Publishing Start Stay or Leave
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Fox News host and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Doesn’t Hurt to Ask shares his trusted framework for decision making, telling the story of his life through the choices he’s made using this revolutionary method.“The best guide I’ve read to help people analyze, make, and own their decisions . . . Make a great decision and read this book.”—Dana Perino, Fox News anchor and host, former White House press secretaryIn life, moments arise when you have to decide your next move. When choosing whether to accept a new job, purchase a house, attend a school, or start a relationship, how do you settle on which direction to take? Trey Gowdy has found that most consequential decisions boil down to three simple options: start, stay, or leave.Gowdy first developed this decision-making tool in the courtroom during a federal murder trial, and it has guided his life
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Penguin Putnam Inc Love in a Time of Hate
Book Synopsis?An enthralling and insightful cultural history?one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.? ?Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book ReviewAn ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth centuryAs the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never shows. Marlene Dietrich slips away from a loveless marriage to cruise the dive bars of Berlin. The fledgling writer Vladimir Nabokov places a freshly netted butterfly at the end of his wife?s bed. Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Zelda and Scott, Dalí and Gala, Picasso and his many muses, Henry and June and Anaïs Nin, the entire extended family of Thomas Mann, and a host of other fascinating and famous figures make art and love, write and row, bed and wed and betray. They do not yet know that they, along with millions of others, will soon be forced to contemplate flight?or fight?as the world careens from one global conflict to the next.
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Diversified Publishing Prequel
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Penguin Random House India The Dream of Revolution
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£22.46
Random House USA Inc Just Watch Me The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Book SynopsisThis magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories. John English reveals how for Trudeau style was as important as substance, and how the controversial public figure intertwined with the charismatic private man and committed father. He traces Trudeau’s deep friendships (with women especially, many of them talented artists, like Barbra Streisand) and bitter enmities; his marriage and family tragedy. He illuminates his strengths and weaknesses — from Trudeaumania to political disenchantment, from his electrifying response to the kidnappings during the October Crisis, to his all-important patriation of the Canadian Constitution, and his evolution to
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Random House USA Inc The Catcher Was a Spy
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Random House USA Inc Mod Lib John Brown Modern Library
Book SynopsisA moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: 'When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand.' DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic.
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Ada English Patriot and Psychiatrist
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Gill Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell
Book SynopsisCharles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family; he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. This is the first major biography of Parnell in 30 years.Trade Review“Perhaps the most striking feature of Professor Paul Bew’s book is how much is packed into so little space...his trick is not to dwell on the nuances of Parnell’s upbringing...but to examine forensically every dramatic episode of the epic life” Michael Foley, The Sunday Times ‘A significant new assessment of Charles Stewart Parnell and his place in the politics of his period which is at once a masterpiece of compression and of clarity of expression.’ Maurice Hayes, Irish Independent ‘A riveting portrait ... “astonishing” scarcely does justice to the political achievements of the deeply strange, even dysfunctional man at the heart of Bew’s book … How are we to reconcile the sleep-walking, paranoid inadequate who obsessed about the colour green and the number 13, with the parliamentary titan who came to terrify the Speaker of the Commons with his deadly procedural prowess by 1880?’ John-Paul McCarthy, The Spectator ‘Bew’s magnificent study leaves a deepened appreciation of the force of Joyce’s characterisation of Parnell as an Irish leader who was “strong to the verge of weakness”.’ Frank Callanan, The Sunday Independent
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Francotirador American Sniper Spanish Edition
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Rowman & Littlefield Renegade for Peace and Justice A Memoir of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMy favorite brave American, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, has again done a courageous thing: she has written a personal and powerful story about her life, from her childhood in El Paso, Texas to her extraordinary present day position as U.S. Congresswoman from the 9th district of Northern California. Renegade For Peace and Justice demonstrates how her faith in her God, her values, and her common sense caused her to say no to the Bush Administration's demand, following the attacks of 9/11, that Congress turn over its constitutional powers to declare war to the President, George W. Bush; giving him a blank check to fund endless aggression against a country that was not responsible for the attacks. Hers was the only dissenting vote. For the layperson this book is a wonderful way to begin to understand how our political system works, or of late, doesn't work, because of Lee's ability to explain, in practical terms, her own positions and those of other members of Congress. Lee is not only a hero and a champion of the marginalized and under-represented, she is also a marvelous teacher. -- Alice Walker, poet; activist; author of The Color PurpleBarbara Lee's honest, personal, and very American story will inspire every reader plus generations of young leaders. Yes, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and others have led us by their public examples; but in showing us the links between public and private life, Barbara Lee ushers us into a new era that allows leaders to be whole people. * Gloria Steinem *Barbara Lee, a renegade for justice, fearless but compassionate, sensitive but smart, expresses in this illustrious book, the courage of Esther, the militancy of Deborah, and the faith of Mary. Her undying commitment to her African motherland and to marginalized people everywhere reminds us of her kinship with both Mother Teresa and her role model, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Readers of this book will want to join Congresswoman Lee as renegades for the cause of justice anywhere and everywhere. -- Dr. J. Alfred Smith Sr., Senior Pastor, Allen Temple Baptist ChurchSome of the poorest people in the world will never know the name Barbara Lee, yet owe their lives to her determination in the fight against AIDS. Her sense of justice—and injustice—runs about as deep as it's possible to go. -- Bono, lead singer of U2 and co-founder of the anti-poverty organization ONEWhen our government shifts from the course charted by our constitution, we can always count on Rep. Barbara Lee to sound the warning bell. Barbara is intimately guided by her sense of direction; when the tide of public opinion runs in the opposite way, Barbara's internal compass guides her through fog that can cloud the sharpest minds. -- Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Chair, Asian Pacific American CaucusBarbara Lee's exciting autobiography gives us hints why she is such an extraordinary, unique leader. She has lived "Yes. We Can! Si Se Puede!" We can all learn and be grateful for Barbara Lee's life. -- Dolores Huerta, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and cofounder of United Farm WorkersMost memoirs by Members of Congress are safe, tepid retellings of hardscrabble upbringings or glossing-over of troubled pasts. Not so in the candid new book by Rep. Barbara Lee, which delves into raw emotional territory from the California Democrat's past, including a secret marriage, a clandestine abortion, an abusive marriage and even an LSD trip forced upon her by her violent ex-husband....Still, the story ends in triumph, and Lee remembers her career in the House and the support, both public and private, that she's gotten for her controversial stance as the sole Member of Congress who voted against the use of force after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. We do love a happy ending. * Roll Call, July 2008 *Her passion for public service brought her into the orbit of the Black Panther Party and later more mainstream politics as she developed her iconoclastic views on how to serve. She details the challenges of getting ahead in politics, relying on a strong faith, and maintaining the courage to stand up for what she thinks is right. -- September 2008 * Booklist *A refreshingly frank self-examination by a public figure. -- Tammerlin Drummond * Contra Costa Times, "Public Lawmaker Shows her Private Side" from November 12, 2008 *It's striking to read....Lee's story, told in an earnest, almost reticent way, is startling: who would have thought that this person who has at times been vilified as a left-wing radical is trying to live what she was taught by nuns and in her Methodist Sunday school? * Shelf Awareness, November 2008 *If you enjoy a good biography or if you're a political junkie, you'll love this book. Renegade for Peace & Justice is a book to pay attention to. * The Charlotte Post, December 2008 *Renegade For Peace And Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks For Me is the title of the most profound autobiography there is. Congresswoman Lee's life is an example to all—you can accomplish, you can stand. It is wonderful. * The Birmingham Times, January 2009 *
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DK Remarkable Diaries The Worlds Most Historic and
Book SynopsisTravel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages.Bringing together historical and literary diaries, artists' sketchbooks, explorers' journals, and scientists' notebooks, Remarkable Diaries provides an intimate insight into the lives and thoughts of some of the most interesting people of the last two thousand years. Discover what it was like to build a pyramid, sail the seas with Magellan, travel into the heart of Africa, or serve on the Western Front. Find out how writers and artists planned their masterpieces, and how scientists developed their groundbreaking theories.Arranged chronologically, Remarkable Diaries takes you into the pages of the world's greatest diaries, notebooks, and letters, including those of Samuel Pepys, Henry-David Thoreau, the Goncourt brothers, Virginia Woolf, and Anne Frank. Stunning reproductions of the original notebooks and manuscr
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DK Kings and Queens of England and Scotland
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old Age and Other Essays
Book Synopsis1. A study of old age by one of Italya s oldest and wisest philosophers. 2. Bobbio writes on old age as a social and personal problem. He re--assess ideas of history and progress from the perspective of an old man. 3. This is a beautifully written book that combines philosophical enquiry and personal reflection.Table of ContentsPublisher's Note. Old Age. Part I. Disgruntled Old Age. Where is All This Supposed Wisdom?. Rhetoric and Anti-Rhetoric. The World of Memory. Part II. I am Still Here. After Death. Slow Motion. Lost Opportunities. Other Essays. To Myself. Intellectual Autobiography. Reflections of an Octogenarian. Reply to My Critics. Power and the Law. Taking Stock. The Politics of Culture. Appendix. Notes on the Text. Notes. Index.
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The History Press Ltd An American on the Western Front
Book SynopsisKimber details his exhilaration, his everyday concerns and his horror as he adapts to an active wartime role. Arthur Clifford Kimber was one of the first Americans on the front line after the entry of the US into the war and, tragically, also one of the last to be buried there – killed in action just a few weeks before the end of the war.
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The History Press Ltd Woman with the Iceberg Eyes Oriana F. Wilson
Book SynopsisA unique widow's-eye perspective on the doomed TERRA NOVA expedition and its fall-out and a strong woman's history revealed for the first timeTrade ReviewA story of profound love, courage, faith and stoicism in adversity which has inspired many -- Dr D.M. Wilson FZSOry Wilson is an unknown but central figure in the whole Scott story, and a gripping woman in her own right. I have always considered her unjustly neglected -- Sara WheelerThis beautifully written book reveals the life of an explorer's wife and scientist in her own right
£26.35
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Tiger Project A Series Devoted to Germanyâs
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Heinrich Himmler
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Albert Schwenns Memories of the WaffenSS An SS
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Leo Wilmâs Memories of the WaffenSS
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