Biography: historical, political & military books

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Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan

Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders...

Author: Robert Whiting
ISBN: 9784805317983
Format: Paperback
$32.99

'Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades — he knows the...  Read More >>

Enrique VIII: La biograf�a del controvertido rey de Inglaterra y su trono, esposas y corte brit�nica

Enrique VIII: La biograf�a del controvertido rey de...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464900552
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Ad�ntrate en el cautivador mundo de Enrique VIII, uno de los monarcas m�s intrigantes e influyentes de la historia....  Read More >>

James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War

James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate...

Author: Harold Knudsen
ISBN: 9781611217049
Format: Paperback
$65.00

This book draws heavily on 20th Century Army doctrine, field training, staff planning, command, and combat experience,...  Read More >>

Perpetual Motion: An Autobiography of Relative History

Perpetual Motion: An Autobiography of Relative History...

Author: D A Pitts ,  Dave Brosha
ISBN: 9781038306586
Format: Hardback
$76.53

In Perpetual Motion, Dana slows down long enough to detail his dash through a fast-paced life. This is the inspirational...  Read More >>

Brilliant Disguise

Brilliant Disguise

Author: Susan Kellam
ISBN: 9798888243459
Format: Hardback
$71.15

After their nuclear family exploded into a vaporous mushroom cloud, the two siblings could only duck and cover....  Read More >>

God’s Ghostwriters

God’s Ghostwriters

Author: Candida Moss
ISBN: 9780008612184
Format: Paperback
$34.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

Digger's Story: Surviving the Japanese POW camps was just the beginning

Digger's Story: Surviving the Japanese POW camps was...

Author: David Barrett ,  Brian Robertson
ISBN: 9781923061880
Format: Paperback
$52.77

How do you survive with your beaten starved and humiliated as a prisoner of war in a camp on the Thai Burma Railway?...  Read More >>

Oker Aboriginal Hitman

Oker Aboriginal Hitman

Author: Bridget Nezar
ISBN: 9798224689231
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Follow the amazing story of the notorious Charles Frederick Quinlan, Aboriginal hitman for Australia's gangland...  Read More >>

A Scrappy Little Nobody: Life Lessons in Faith, Business and Politics

A Scrappy Little Nobody: Life Lessons in Faith, Business...

Author: Martin Harder ,  Raymond Derksen
ISBN: 9781039197862
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Within days of his birth in 1949, Martin Harder was in hospital, unable to get nutrition into his frail body and...  Read More >>

Salt Horse: Memoir of a Maverick Admiral, Claude Lionel Cumberlege

Salt Horse: Memoir of a Maverick Admiral, Claude Lionel...

Author: Robin Knight ,  Rear Admiral Mike Harris
ISBN: 9781849955720
Format: Paperback
$49.14

The autobiography of an individualistic, larger-than-life sailor who lived by his wits. An insightful and unusual...  Read More >>

Searching for Billie: A journalist’s quest to understand his mother’s past leads him to discover a vanished China

Searching for Billie: A journalist’s quest to understand...

Author: Ian Gill
ISBN: 9789887554660
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Ian Gill's first visit to Hong Kong in 1975 takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billie’s friends,...  Read More >>

Is Today the Day?

Is Today the Day?

Author: Tulsi Gabbard
ISBN: 9781455542314
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From her years serving in the armed forces to becoming the first Hindu woman to be elected to Congress, Tulsi Gabbard...  Read More >>

Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History

Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History...

Author: Anne Somerset
ISBN: 9780008106225
Format: Hardback
$59.99

It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong.  Read More >>

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Author: Booker T Washington
ISBN: 9798869276056
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute. Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice. This...  Read More >>

God’s Ghostwriters

God’s Ghostwriters

Author: Candida Moss
ISBN: 9780008612177
Format: Hardback
$59.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

God Is a Grunt: And More Good News for GIs

God Is a Grunt: And More Good News for GIs

Author: Logan M Isaac
ISBN: 9781546000518
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Logan Isaac's God is a Grunt invites Christians of all political and denominational stripes into more thoughtful...  Read More >>

Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite

Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship...

Author: Dean King
ISBN: 9781982144470
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

Author: Peter Jacobs
ISBN: 9781803996950
Format: Paperback
$38.79

The dramatic story of the Newton brothers, SOE agents in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War  Read More >>

Time On Two Crosses: Revised 2nd Edition

Time On Two Crosses: Revised 2nd Edition

Author: Bayard Rustin ,  Walter Naegle
ISBN: 9781627783385
Format: Paperback
$86.99

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott,...  Read More >>

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

Author: Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9789357951029
Format: Paperback
$48.07

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Barnave

Barnave

Author: Jules Gabriel Janin
ISBN: 9789357950343
Format: Paperback
$59.35

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Mozart's Youth

Mozart's Youth

Author: Franz Hoffmann ,  George P Upton
ISBN: 9789357950831
Format: Paperback
$42.08

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the...

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN: 9781982108663
Format: Hardback
$64.69

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved...  Read More >>

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