Biography: historical, political and military Books
Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd Living a Life
Book SynopsisEx-IAS officer Ravi Sawhney's Living a Life' is a memoir with a difference. It shows how the author with a sharp intuitive mind and firm resolve successfully tackled major challenges during his career, including during the height of the Khalistan movement in Punjab. As a young IAS officer, Sawhney mingled with the rural people wherever he was posted, and came up with innovative ways to boost their farm productivity and income, and also helped the local industry bloom. During his long innings at the United Nations while working with the ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific), the author made major contributions.
£30.39
Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd Breaking Barriers: The Story of a Liberal Muslim
Book SynopsisNafees Fazal became the first woman from a minority community to hold a ministerial post in South India. In her new book Breaking Barriers, co-authored by Sandhya Mendonca, Fazal explores her remarkable life, from her troubled childhood, her tumultuous political journey, and her personal beliefs as a liberal and a devout Muslim. She was known as a bold politician who was not afraid to speak her mind; her difficult childhood experiences shaped her political ambitions. I was brought up by my grandparents till the age of six. My grandfather was the Sheriff of Madras at that time, and though he had such a noble post, he had a sadistic streak in him. He would ill-treat my grandmother, and my uncles did the same with their wives. All of this didn't gel with me; it made me very angry.
£28.49
New Era Publications International APS L. Ron Hubbard: Master Mariner: At the Helm
Book SynopsisSet sail with L. Ron Hubbard and navigate through his immense nautical legacy. View the ships' logs chronicling his voyages, his photographic stories, the newspaper accounts and previously unpublished essays that present his life as master of any vessel on any sea.
£29.75
University Press of Southern Denmark Elites, Parties & Democracy: Festschrift for
Book SynopsisOn 14 December 1999 Professor Mogens N Pedersen completed his sixtieth year. The day was celebrated by his friends and colleagues by the publication of this Festschrift. The Festschrift contains various articles written by friends and colleagues of Mogens Pedersen where the major theme is elite, parties and democracy. Not only was Mogens Pedersen one of the first political scientists in Denmark, but has also for many years held a prominent position in European political science, as editor of the European Journal of Political Research and as chairman of the ECPR. His notable contributions to the discipline may conveniently be subsumed under the heading Elites, Parties and Democracy which is the title of this Festchrift.
£999.99
Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd Ambedkar: Awakening India's Social Conscience
Book SynopsisThe book is an intellectual biography of Dr. Ambedkar, focusing on his writings, speeches, and evolution of thinking. It explores his intellectual development and strategic decisions throughout his public life.
£35.99
Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd The Unseen Indira Gandhi: Through her physician's
Book SynopsisThe book is an intimate look at probably India's best-loved Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, with the solitary exception of her father and the first person to hold that post, Jawaharlal Nehru. While biographers have generally seen Indira only through the lens of politics, Dr Mathur gives us a moving and witty account of the three-term PM as a person.
£22.79
HarperCollins India Lokmanya Tilak: The First National Leader
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Back Stage
Book SynopsisThe book follows Ahluwalia's journey in shaping India's economy, focusing on the shift to a market-based system. It highlights key events and reforms, particularly the impactful 1991 reforms. Ahluwalia discusses successes, failures, and controversies, providing valuable insights into India's economic progress and poverty reduction initiatives.
£999.99
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Finding My Self: A Life in Education and Activism
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£23.62
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Gandhi’s Travels in Tamil Nadu
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£57.59
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Never Tell Them we are the Same people: Notes on
Book SynopsisSo while the army was now led by non-fanatical professional, religious fundamentalists with little electoral clout could still openly hurl obscenities about Benazir at a PPP rally.
£14.99
HarperCollins India Rejoice in Adversity, Triumph in War: A Military
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting, first-hand account of one of the most thrilling jobs in the world, and a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about the men and women who serve in India's armed forces.
£13.99
HarperCollins India NTR: A Political Biography
Book SynopsisIn the year of N.T. Rama Rao''s birth centenary in 2023, this is a comprehensive political biography that traces his journey from a remote Andhra village to the forefront of the national stage via a thriving career in Telugu films. NTR, as he was popularly known, had an extraordinary ability to galvanize the masses, as much to watch his films as to support the party he founded - the Telugu Desam. His life and career can be divided in two distinct halves: his stellar performance as divine characters in mythological films and his tryst with politics. NTR''s transformation from a matinee idol of Telugu cinema to the political darling of the masses was swift and seamless.
£16.49
HarperCollins India Savitribai Phule: Her Life, Her Relationships,
Book SynopsisThis is their inspiring story. Set in the mid-nineteenth century in Poona, it is an excitingly feminist and daringly irreverent tale of three women who believed in their ability to make a difference.
£17.99
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Pranab My Father: A Daughter Remembers
Book SynopsisThe 13th President of India, who served as India's External Affairs, Defence, Finance and Commerce Minister at different times; a Parliamentarian with the unique distinction of being the leader of both Houses; and a member of the Congress Working Committee for 23 years, Pranab Mukherjee was a scholar par excellence, powerful orator and one of India's most towering statesmen.
£26.59
Westland Publications Limited Lest We Forget: How Three Sisters Braved the
Book SynopsisLike the millions it affected, for Indira Varma too, the Partition was a scar that would remain, even as the wound healed with the passing of time.
£20.39
Readworthy Publications Pvt Ltd Rajasekhara Reddy Tragic End of a Charismatic
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£999.99
Hay House Publishers India Private Limited Captain Amarinder Singh: Peoples Maharaja An
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£20.89
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Seeta: Ordeals and Tribulations of a Widow in 1857 Mutiny
£41.64
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Lt Colonel Purohit: The Man Betrayed
Book SynopsisIt's Hindu Terror!' screamed newspaper headlines, when for the first time in the country's history an army man, Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit, was arrested in connection with the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast. Who was this person, why was his name plastered over the front page of all newspapers? Why him of all people? Was he guilty? Was he framed? Was he a scapegoat? What happened to the family of this decorated officer while he languished in prison for nine long years as undertrial? Lt Colonel Purohit: The Man Betrayed?
£15.99
OM Books International Escape from Pakistan: A War Hero's Chronicle
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£17.58
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Har Dayal Hindu Revolutionary and Rationalist
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£47.59
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Ferdinand von Bulgarien: German Edition
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£20.66
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij John Kay: Not Always an Easy Ride
Book SynopsisWORLD WAR 2. Tilsit, East Prussia/ Germany.Elsbeth Zimmermann is married to Fritz Krauledat. She is eight months pregnant when her husband is killed at the Russian front, wearing a German uniform.Early 1945. On the run for the Soviet Army, Elsbeth arrives as a desperate war refugee with her nine-month-old toddler Joachim in the bombed out State of Thuringia. That part of Germany will soon be occupied by the American Armed Forces. Although, by a strange twist of fate, she will end up in the Russian zone and she is stuck behind the Iron Curtain. Elsbeth is afraid for her son''s future.In 1949, Elsbeth will flee again. This time from the communist zone in East Germany, to a much freer West Germany. At night, in a very dangerous move, she and her five-year-old Joachim will crawl through a hole in the barbed wire. Joachim is suffering from a serious eye affliction, but that doesn''t stop him. He follows his dream in music and less than twenty years later he will score a huge hit with Born To Be Wild, introducing a new rage with his band Steppenwolf: hard metal rock. John Kay, as he is called by then, will become the most distinct rock singer ever born in Germany. This extremely atypical book gives an in-depth description of John Kay''s background. It is the story of a young man, who didn''t speak any English when he emigrated to Canada in 1958. For all immigrants who arrive completely orphaned in a foreign country, his passion is an example of what you can achieve with boldness and perseverance . and from time to time a bit of luck. Theo De Vos (Duffel, Belgium 1955) was an officer in the Belgian Air Force. History has always been one of his great passions. Since he was fourteen, he has also been a huge hard rock fan, especially of the band Steppenwolf. In this book, he magically weaves those two completely different themes.
£26.96
Gefen Publishing House Roots of the Future
Book SynopsisA rabbi, an arms smuggler, a collaborator and a spy, he has flirted with danger, been trailed and jailed, and broken his share of laws. Yet throughout his long and full life, Herb Friedman has always held steadfastly to his beliefs, his Judaism and his faith in the uniqueness of the Jewish people. Over the years, Friedman maintained close friendships with some of the finest Jewish leaders of our time - David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Abba Eban -- and some of the most prominent names of the 20th century, including Harry S Truman, Lyndon B Johnson, and Popes Pius XII and John XXIII. Roots of the Future is the collection of the astounding stories and anecdotes which composed over 80 years of Herb Friedman''s remarkable life. It is also an affirmation of the enduring value of the Jewish heritage and proof that one man can make a lifetime of difference.
£27.89
Gefen Publishing House Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank
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£14.39
Gefen Publishing House How My Grandmother Prevented Civil War
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£22.09
Gefen Publishing House Child Survivors in the Shadows
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£15.29
Gefen Publishing House Living Beyond Terrorism: Israeli Stories of Hope
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£22.39
Gefen Publishing House Right Hand Man
Book SynopsisRight Hand Man is the gripping story of Yechiel Kadishai, Menachem Begins right-hand man and confidant. Kadishai was by Begins side for decades, from the long years in the desert of opposition to Begins ascendance to the premiership; from meetings with world leaders and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize to the Lebanon War; from Begins resignation and seclusion until his death. Menachem Michelson, born in Israel, was privileged to be among the paratroopers who took part in liberating Jerusalem. A graduate of Bar-Ilan University, Michelson has authored numerous books, as well as acting as senior editor and writer for Yedioth Ahronoth for over forty years. Michelson formerly served as the aliya representative in England.
£26.34
Gefen Publishing House Me & the Middle East: First-Hand Reporting on
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£14.39
Gefen Publishing House Nathan's Bitterness & Salvation
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£13.29
Gefen Publishing House Carry-On Baggage: The Story of a Man Who Thought
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£13.29
Gefen Publishing House Yearning to Breathe Free: My Parents' Fight to
Book SynopsisOn 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually become the author of this book. Ernestyna Goldwasser had left behind her family, steeped in the rich Jewish culture of Krakow, to seek sanctuary from the marauding Germans, who had invaded Poland the previous fall. As the child of a father who held US citizenship, Ernestyna enjoyed a special status that became priceless when the war broke out. She, too, was deemed a US citizen and thereby eligible to emigrate out of Poland. Unfortunately, Ernestyna''s husband, Chaskel Goldwasser, enjoyed no such status. As his wife, pregnant with their first child, embarked on her journey, Chaskel was forced to remain behind, trapped in the inferno that was soon to engulf and incinerate one third of the world''s Jewish population. Ernestyna entered the US through the famed golden door mentioned in the final words of the Emma Lazarus poem that graces the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately, because of the anti-Semitic policies of the US State Department, that door remained shut tight to Chaskel. During Ernestyna''s valiant struggle to reunite with her husband, they were able to maintain an intimate and highly emotional correspondence. Many of their letters have been preserved and are presented in this volume as a first-person account of their desperate struggle to find the key that would unlock Chaskel''s imprisonment... before it was too late.
£26.34
Gefen Publishing House Lone Voice: The Wars of Isi Leibler
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£34.84
Peace Publications My Version India-Pakistan War 1965
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£999.99
Blacksmith Books Destination Peking
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Destination Shanghai) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From the ultra-wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton and her husband the Prince Mdivani, to the poor American girl Mona Monteith, who worked in the city as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson and novelist JP Marquand, who held court on the rooftop of the Grand Hôtel de Pékin, to Hollywood screenwriter Harry Hervey, who sought inspiration walking atop the Tartar Wall; from Edgar and Helen Foster Snow Peking''s It'' couple of 1935 to Martha Sawyers, who did so much to aid China against Japan in World War II; Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life.
£12.59
Blacksmith Books Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941
Book SynopsisKwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husbands concubine; sick of her mother-in-laws endless carping about the money she spent; sick of the whole family. Late one sticky, humid night, something snapped in her -- and she grabbed the meat chopper. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine with over 70 gashes, many of them to the bone. Kwan was found guilty and became the second and last woman in Hong Kong to suffer the death penalty. But behind her story, and those of the citys other female murderers, lie complex webs of relationships and jealousies, poverty and despair. Taking the first 100 years of Hong Kongs colonial history, this book unravels the lives of women -- Chinese and Westerners alike -- who found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Hong Kongs female prison population was a tiny fraction of that in Britain or America, but there are still plenty of tales from its women kidnappers, smugglers, bomb-makers, thieves and cruel mistresses.
£13.29
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Waves
Book SynopsisAmwaj tells the story of a young Ibrahim who was born and raised in Kirkuk to a family of farmers and landowners. Kirkuk of his childhood was an idyllic place, where a mosaic of people from many different places and regions lived together and were neighbours in every sense of the word. But things changed with the start of the Iran-Iraq War when Ibrahim was conscripted into the Iraqi army to fight for Iraq. After the war, he left the country to escape the political tensions, ending up teaching Arabic Literature in Libya, then in Qatar. Passing through these countries accentuated Ibrahims memories of home, as did his sadness at each successive wave of violence that engulfed it and his memories.
£11.39
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Zheng He
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. This book aims to shed light on one of the most prominent figures in human history: the Chinese sailor and Muslim admiral Zheng-He (in Arabic, Hajji Mahmoud Shams). The book examines his geographical discoveries and his seafaring travels. Zheng-he visited all of the countries located on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, South Asia, and African East coast during the first third of the fifth century (Hijri calendar), between 1405 1433). His voyages were known as Rahlat Al-Kanz, or Voyages of Treasure, and were a compilation of seven different marine expeditions over the course of 28 years. An important issue explored in this book is that of Zheng-Hes arrival to the American territories, a discovery that he made before Christopher Columbus. Specialists in history, geography, and archaeology provide their opinion and research regarding this claim.
£999.99
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press The Exploits of Firoz Shah
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. This book studies the personality of Sultan Firoz Shah Tuqluq who belonged to the Tughlaqi family that ruled India between the eighth and the first half of the ninth century. It achieves this by examining a short message written by the Sultan himself, entitled The Conquests of Firoz Shah, as well as by studying the conditions of Islamic and Hindu society.
£999.99
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Saladin
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. Saladin was an outsider whose life was filled with paradox. Famous for driving the crusaders out of Jerusalem, and becoming the most powerful man in the Islamic empire, he died penniless, without enough money to line his coffin. In this ground-breaking biography, translated for the first time into Arabic, Abdel Rahman Azzam uncovers the real Saladin, placing him in historical context against the backdrop of the 10th and 11th-century Sunni revival, a powerful sweeping intellectual renaissance that would ultimately transform every field of Islamic thought.Trade Review'Absorbing' Financial Times, UK 'Timely and well-written' Irish News His book is a comprehensive survey not just of the man, but of the age in which he lived Edinburgh Evening News, UK
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Comrades
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£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers On a Grander Scale
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£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers The Knox Brothers
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£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Sahib
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£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Soldiers Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Freedom at Midnight
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