Biography: historical, political & military books

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The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in the Highlands

The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life...
Author: Caroline Young ISBN: 9781803998206 Format: Paperback	$44.99
From society belle in turn-of-the-century Seattle, to editor of Harper’s Bazaar and lady of a vast Scottish Highland... Read More >>

Marshal Pilsudski

Marshal Pilsudski
Author: W. F. Reddaway ISBN: 9781032941127 Format: Hardback	$221.00
First published in 1939, Marshal Pilsudski presents a comprehensive biographical history of Józef Klemens Piłsudski... Read More >>

Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of...
Author: Douglas Boyd ISBN: 9781526767080 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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The Men Who Flew the Halifax

The Men Who Flew the Halifax
Author: Martin W Bowman ISBN: 9781399021692 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery GCB KBE DSO MC

The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard...
Author: Richard Mead ISBN: 9781399078610 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on The Western Front, winning the... Read More >>

Group Captain John 'Joe' Collier DSO, DFC and Bar: The Authorised Biography of the Bomber Commander, Air War and SOE Strategist & Dambuster Planner

Group Captain John 'Joe' Collier DSO, DFC and Bar: The...
Author: Simon Gooch ISBN: 9781399078832 Format: Paperback	$44.99
John Colliers war began on day one, flying Hampdens in 83 Squadron with his friend Guy Gibson, in a hunt for the... Read More >>

Hurricane Squadron Ace: The Story of Battle of Britain Ace, Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE DSO DFC and Bar

Hurricane Squadron Ace: The Story of Battle of Britain...
Author: Nick Thomas ISBN: 9781399078665 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Air Commodore Peter Malam Pete Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC, and Bar (1917-2008) was one of the most heroic and highly... Read More >>

Theodore Bayley Hardy VC DSO MC

Theodore Bayley Hardy VC DSO MC
Author: David Raw ISBN: 9781399078696 Format: Paperback	$44.99
The casual visitor to Carlisle Cathedral will notice massive sandstone walls, a magnificent ceiling, and the exquisite... Read More >>

Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landings and Emergency Ejections: From Fast-jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft

Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landings and Emergency...
Author: Group Captain Ron Burrows AFC, FRAeS, JP, RAF (Ret'd) ISBN: 9781399090742 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Fighter for Freedom

Friedrich Nietzsche: Fighter for Freedom
Author: Rudolf Steiner , Bernard J Garber ISBN: 9781621483380 Format: Paperback	$56.99
Written in 1889 (CW 5) Immediately upon reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in 1889, Rudolf Steiner recognized... Read More >>

Max Dupain: A portrait of the new landmark biography of Australia's most iconic photographer from leading curator and award-winning author of OLIVE COTTON

Max Dupain: A portrait of the new landmark biography...
Author: Helen Ennis ISBN: 9781460764800 Format: Hardback	$55.00
From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most... Read More >>

Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about the life of Australia's greatest naturalists and explorers, from the popular award winning author of bestsellers SISTER VIV and FLINDERS

Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about...
Author: Grantlee Kieza ISBN: 9780733343254 Format: Hardback	$49.99
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An Honor and A Guard: From Omaha Beach to the Heart of Nazi Germany-One Infantryman's Journey

An Honor and A Guard: From Omaha Beach to the Heart...
Author: John F Birch ISBN: 9781958407264 Format: Paperback	$52.77
There were those who doubted whether National Guard Units could hold up like regular U.S. Army units in wartime.... Read More >>

Group Captain Tom Gleave: The Memoirs of One of The Few and a Founder of the Guinea Pig Club

Group Captain Tom Gleave: The Memoirs of One of The...
Author: Tom Gleave ISBN: 9781399059183 Format: Hardback	$75.00
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Spitfire Groundcrew Under Fire: An RAF ‘Erk’s’ War from the Battle of Britain to D-Day and Operation Bodenplatte

Spitfire Groundcrew Under Fire: An RAF ‘Erk’s’ War from...
Author: Mark Hillier ISBN: 9781399059862 Format: Hardback	$59.99
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle: The Man Who Invented the Turbo-jet

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle: The Man Who Invented...
Author: Robert L Evans ISBN: 9781036111809 Format: Hardback	$59.99
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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator

Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave...
Author: Daniel L. Schafer ISBN: 9780813080789 Format: Paperback	$71.15
In this penetrating biography, Daniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley’s evolving thoughts on race and slavery,... Read More >>

From Fighting Napoleon to the Scottish Military Academy: The Life of Captain John Orr

From Fighting Napoleon to the Scottish Military Academy:...
Author: Rosslyn Macphail ISBN: 9781399034449 Format: Hardback	$75.00
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A Face Like a Chicken's Backside: An Unconventional Soldier in South East Asia, 1948–71

A Face Like a Chicken's Backside: An Unconventional...
Author: J P Cross ISBN: 9781036150082 Format: Hardback	$75.00
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Flying Boat Pilot in War and Peace: Disaster and Survival: The Extraordinary Life of Captain M.J.R. ‘Roly’ Alderson

Flying Boat Pilot in War and Peace: Disaster and Survival:...
Author: Mark Alderson ISBN: 9781036112042 Format: Hardback	$75.00
At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy,... Read More >>

Here's the Deal: A Memoir

Here's the Deal: A Memoir
Author: Kellyanne Conway ISBN: 9781982187354 Format: Paperback	$39.99
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Part personal chronicle and part political journey…a candid assessment of... Read More >>

Bazooka Charlie: The Unbelievable Story of Major Charles Carpenter and Rosie the Rocketer

Bazooka Charlie: The Unbelievable Story of Major Charles...
Author: James P. Busha , Carol (Carpenter) Apacki ISBN: 9780764368707 Format: Paperback	$54.99
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Forty Years a Legislator

Forty Years a Legislator
Author: Elmer Thomas , Richard Lowitt ISBN: 9780806194936 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Elmer Thomas (1876-1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state's first legislature and in Congress. This... Read More >>

Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel

Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel
Author: Sheila Gooddie ISBN: 9780470854266 Format: Paperback	$25.85
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Keir Starmer: The Biography

Keir Starmer: The Biography
Author: Tom Baldwin ISBN: 9780008739645 Format: Paperback	$37.99
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER 'Required reading for anyone who has an interest... Read More >>

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