Writing Themselves into History
A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthand. In the early years of California's statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (1834–1869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (1848–1910) had front-row seats to the unfolding of the Golden State's history. The first and second wives of historian extraordinaire Hubert Howe Bancroft, these two women were deeply...Hardback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Sound of Utopia
When Stalin came to power, making music became a dangerous endeavour. Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinised for potential subversion. The Sound of Utopia offers a vivid portrait of Soviet musicians and composers struggling to create art in this climate of terror. Some successfully toed the ideological line,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Inheritance
Christopher Fulton's journey began with the death of Evelyn Lincoln, late secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through Lincoln, crucial evidence ended up in Christopher's hands—evidence that was going to be used to facilitate a new future for America. But the U.S. government's position was clear: that evidence had to be confiscated and classified, and the truth hidden away from...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Generalissimo
One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and...Paperback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksSelf-Portrait of a Scoundrel
Released for the first time 16 years after his death, this startling autobiography by one of the so-called "three tramps" from the John F. Kennedy assassination reveals the details of Chauncey Marvin Holt's many claims. Much mystery and suspicion still swirls around that fateful day in November 1963, and theories abound in nearly every form of media. But one of...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPeacemaker
"A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own" — Rory Stewart "A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age" — William Dalrymple "Important reading at any time in history; essential in the world of today" — Peter Frankopan In December 1971, after having stepped down...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOrwell
Orwell: A Man of Our Time offers a vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, and places him and his work at the centre of the current political landscape. One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell’s work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime. Possibly, in the...Hardback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMetternich
A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace. Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as...Hardback$14000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksMaestros & Monsters
This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a time in the US. For audiences at Woody Allen movies, Sontag was the prime embodiment of the term "intellectual," whose famous 1965 essay "Notes...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLetters for the Ages Winston Churchill
Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show the private man behind the public figure and shine fresh light on...Hardback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation. This deeply personal account offers readers a poignant glimpse into the challenges and fears faced by a Jewish family during one of...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksChrystia
The intriguing, in-depth story of the most powerful woman in Canadian politics. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Catherine Tsalikis traces Chrystia Freeland's remarkable journey from the northwestern Alberta town of Peace River to Moscow, London, and New York, where she spent two decades as a journalist, to the halls of Parliament Hill as deputy prime minister and finance minister in Justin Trudeau's...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBouttios and Late Antique Antioch
Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that has disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth-century Antioch. It shows how the gods could be reduced to historical...Hardback$10999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksPoisoned Ivies
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik reveals how America’s elite universities, once proud symbols of academic excellence, have become centers of far-left indoctrination, division, and moral rot in this riveting, behind-the-scenes inside account. Drawing on her experience as the highest-ranking woman in Congress and the chief questioner of Ivy League university presidents in the hearing heard around the world, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik exposes...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksKosciuszko
Longlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction Kosciuszko is a name familiar to all Australians. But how many people know who our iconic highest peak is named after? Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds out why Tadeusz Kosciuszko is the hero the world needs right now. A military engineer, freedom fighter and champion of human rights, this extraordinary revolutionary...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksSade's Wife
The Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and his cruelty to women, nonetheless lived a life dominated by them—his charismatic mother, iron-willed mother-in-law, and his wife. A wife who, despite her husband's peccadilloes, and although their marriage was arranged in order for their families to combine financial and social capital, loved him devotedly for thirty years, through betrayal,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAtatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. He rose from obscure origins to become the founder of the new Republic of Turkey out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire and went on to radically transform Turkish society. How should one understand Atatürk and his legacy? In this book, George Gawrych studies...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWalking Pepys's London
Walking Pepys's London brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his...Hardback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksTwo Sisters
A riveting, poignant account of two young women—the author's own mother-in-law, and her sister—and their miraculous escape from the murderous authorities of Vichy France. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, Marion and Huguette Müller's family was torn apart. After their mother was deported to Auschwitz, the two young Jewish women fled to the Alpine skiing town of Val d'Isère,...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Valediction
A riveting memoir weaving family history with global intrigue and mystical quests. Valediction: Resurrection unveils the untold story of Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould's journey through Afghanistan, exposing the hidden forces shaping world events. This memoir delves into their Fitzgerald family history, revealing a centuries-old struggle for power within the Anglo/Norman deep-state. Explore the esoteric qualities that drew Fitzgerald into...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Stained Man
The extraordinary tale—'A two-volume mystery!' Mark Twain called it—of the solicitor who incited a campaign to free a man he knew was guilty of attempted murder, who lost his reputation and ability to practise, and who embarked on a decades-long political career to regain it all. Sydney, 1895. Richard Meagher is a brilliant criminal defence solicitor with ambitions in politics....Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Evin Prison Bakers’ Club
16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A remarkable testimony to women’s bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions… Think Nigella crossed with Nelson Mandela.' The Sunday Times, Book of the Week 'A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Abuse of Power
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case and parliamentary scandals, the powerful...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksStory of a Communist
The philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influence on contemporary political theory. His political activism and outspoken advocacy for the downtrodden also placed him at the centre of some of the most dramatic developments in recent Italian history. Story of a Communist—the first...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksSelected Letters, 1514–1543
The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de’ Medici. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maria Salviati de’ Medici, specifically in her role in Medici governance and her relationships with other members of the Medici court. Maria Salviati’s surviving correspondence documents a life spent close to the centres of Medici power in Florence and Rome, bearing...Paperback$9299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksSalazar
Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others praise his honesty, patriotism, and dedication to duty. Contemporary radicals are wary of his unabashed elitism and scepticism about social progress, but many conservatives...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksRussia’s Man of War
A biography of Viktor Bout, a 'warlord's warlord' who may be the man to replace Putin. An intrepid reporter's fast-paced investigation into the extraordinary life of Viktor Bout, the much-mythologised Russian fixer known as the Merchant of Death. Viktor Bout was a warlord's warlord, according to MI6, the US National Security Council and the CIA—a terrorist facilitator, and the world's...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPutin
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Magisterial - Guardian Outstanding - Ian Kershaw Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMannerheim, Marshal of Finland
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMannerheim, Marshal of Finland
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIn Love with George Eliot
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR What every lover of George Eliot's work wants: a new novel made from her life and mind. Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
The greatest British diarist of the 20th century . . . finally, we are getting the full text, in all its bitchy, scintillating detail — Ben Macintyre The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end...Hardback$9000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFlinders
The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders – the man who put Australia on the map. Shipwrecks, storms, death, and danger – Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline. From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksClever Man
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Aboriginal Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu. Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land, Paddy Compass Namadbara acted as a healer for his countrymen and became a powerful and revered leader....Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCarolina Clay
The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century. He signed many of his works simply as "Dave" and is known today as Potter David Drake. He made pots and storage jars—everyday items, but because of their beauty and massive size, and because Dave signed and...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAlice's Daughter
'My story is not about blame. It's about sharing history that belongs to all of Australia. I needed a push, but I am happy to finally give little Rhonda a voice, so that my words will live on after I leave this world.' In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family and placed on Carnarvon Native...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAccidental Tyrant
Kim Il-sung was the enigmatic architect of North Korea. His life is an extraordinary tale of improbable success: once a barely educated guerrilla fighter, he rose to lead the nation at the young age of 33. Against all odds, he established a horrifyingly stable dictatorial regime, one that still struggles to provide for its people, yet could obliterate Hollywood, Silicon...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLooking at Women, Looking at War
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism' - Philippa Gregory...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTwo Wheels to Freedom
The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundreds of lives—all while retaining his infectious zeal for life. Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his cleverness and resourcefulness eventually made him an unlikely hero and bon vivant. As a young adult...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Writings of Thomas Smallwood
A long-forgotten Black abolitionist who liberated captive workers by the wagonload, brilliantly satirised slaveholders, and gave the underground railroad its name. Thomas Smallwood was a shoemaker by day and an organiser of mass escapes from slavery by night. Twelve years after purchasing his freedom from slavery, Smallwood took to the press and, over a 16-month stretch starting in 1842, pseudonymously...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid DecemberThe Age of Caesar
Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksShadow King
A thrilling new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI. 'The best life of Henry VI now in print' DAN JONES. 'Vivid, absorbing and richly detailed' HELEN CASTOR. 'A well-crafted moving account of a tragic reign' MICHAEL JONES. First-born son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House Lancaster...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksRed and Black in Harlem and Jamaica
The first complete account of the life and work of Wilfred Adolphus Domingo (1889-1968), one of the most significant West Indian anti-colonialists of the twentieth century. When W. A. Domingo died in 1968, the Jamaican ex-premier Norman Manley wrote that 'no one in the world made greater sacrifices or suffered more for the cause he believed in—the cause of freedom...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksPriests de la Resistance!
"Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild hadn’t met Father Kir – parish priest and French resistance hero, immortalised by the Kir Royale. And they probably weren’t thinking of Archbishop Damaskinos who, when threatened with the firing squad by the Nazis, replied, ‘Please respect our traditions – in Greece we hang our Archbishops.’ Wherever fascism has taken...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPassion and Power
Passion and Power is about the life and career of Harriet Newman Cohen, one of the nation’s most celebrated divorce attorneys, as she navigated the male-dominated legal world from the 1970s to today. This sweeping narrative details Harriet’s journey through three worlds: raising a family at a time when men held all the power, graduating from law school on the...Hardback$6600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJapanese Destroyer Captain
An honest and dispassionate assessment of Japan's high command, with sage advice on leadership as applicable today as it was when it was first written. Rare insight into what really happened on the Japanese side of the war fence. Japanese Destroyer Captain is a highly regarded war memoir that was a best seller in both Japan and the United States...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJames Baldwin
'A scrupulous biography' Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' Kirkus 'If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read' — Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk James Baldwin is an icon of liberation who created some of the most important literary works of his time, including the novels Go Tell It on the Mountain...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksJabotinsky
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insightful new biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures “A well-written, passionate survey of Jabotinsky’s life and contributions to political Zionism.”—Jeffrey Veidlinger, Marginalia Blog, Los Angeles Review of Books “For many, Jabotinsky will open up a man and his ideas whose influence is still...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGiordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo—a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Bruno’s wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFight
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Brutal." —Huffington Post "Scathing." —New York Post "[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." —Politico “So many revelations.” —Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe "Bombshell." —Jesse Watters, host of FOX’s Jesse Watters Primetime The authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered provide a revelatory, inside look at the...Hardback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBirding to Change the World
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O’Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she had never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Unraveling
Now with a new foreword by Harvard Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and with a new concluding chapter from the author on the unprecedented ethical challenges in the first year of Trump 2.0. Essential reading for anyone interested in modern American politics, get the book that former President Barack Obama on X calls "a deeply thoughtful...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLives of the Caesars
Lives of the Caesars tells the stories of 12 of Rome’s most fascinating and influential rulers, uncovering the unique features of their reigns which allowed them to earn their places in history. A comprehensive and engaging account of the lives of the Caesars, who helped shape one of the most significant periods in history. Each chapter entertainingly recounts the life...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksLetters of Note: Art
In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. Includes letters by: Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi, Oscar Howe, Paul Nash, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Augusta Savage, Vincent van Gogh & many...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEnlightened Eclecticism
The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period’s most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712–86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716–76). Enlightened Eclecticism examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectural...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksWitness to Belief
An openhearted testament to the power of religious belief in a chaotic world. Publishers Weekly From a beloved pastor, a collection of powerful conversations on faith and meaning with twelve public figures who explore the impact of faith in their lives and their success. Through interviews with twelve remarkable and renowned individuals from various Christian denominations, author Russell J. Levenson,...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Quest for Freedom
The Quest for Freedom, a biography of Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky published in June 2020, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the great socialist reformer who personified the Russian Revolution of February 1917. Yet, he is remembered today, if at all, as 'the man who lost Russia'. In the first biography of Kerensky for more than thirty years, award-winning...Hardback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
The untold story of the founding father's likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksI Wish Someone Had Told Me . . .
An Instant New York Times Bestseller Terrific advice, insightful stories, and powerful life lessons curated by Dana Perino, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of And the Good News Is . . . and beloved co-host of Fox News' The Five and America’s Newsroom, inspired by her friends and colleagues. I Wish Someone Had Told Me . . ....Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksI, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB Vol. 1
Captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp where he spends the rest of the war, René Tardi lives a harrowing day-to-day existence. He recalls in vivid detail roll calls in sub-zero temperatures, senseless executions— and especially the gnawing hunger. And yet, in the face of daily brutality, he perseveres, thinking of his wife Henriette, awaiting his return...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksCommunist Insurgent
In the revolutionary tradition, the name of Louis Blanqui is either remembered with derision or as a noble failure. Yet during his lifetime, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organised nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. Communist Insurgent is Blanqui's story.Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks1945: The Reckoning
As the fate of the world is decided, so too is that of the British, Dutch and French empires. In India a generation committed to independence must decide whether to support 'the Raj' or fight alongside the Japanese. One military family is bitterly divided. Will it be the brother who serves under British command, or the one who follows Subhas...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
From humble beginnings to iconic Founding Father… The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the blueprint for self‑made success. Penned between 1771 and 1790, this unfinished memoir lays bare the journey of an ambitious printer’s son who used grit, curiosity, and moral rigor to become a scientist, inventor, diplomat, and one of America’s greatest statesmen. In these pages, you’ll discover: The...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksRamesses the Great
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson. "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail and insightful analysis. . . . Whenever he can, the author takes advantage of opportunities to peer beneath the mask."—The Economist Ramesses the...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGive Me a Fast Ship
Award-winning author, Thomas J. Cutler, offers an in-depth and inspiring look at the truly heroic story of Ernest Evans and the crew of USS Johnston during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The term "hero" is often overused, but the story of Ernest Evans and the crew of USS Johnston (DD 557) during the epic Battle of Leyte...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFulvia
The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife—instead she challenged the Roman patriarchy and sought to increase her influence...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksUncharted
The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the most dramatic and significant political showdown in modern American history. A disastrous debate, a would-be assassin’s bullet, an electrifying eleventh-hour candidate swap, dramatic and surprising VP selections, betrayals behind closed...Hardback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTiberius and His Age
Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was, and was seen by contemporaries to be, recognisably human and far more complex than the monster of the hostile tradition that began...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLandslide
First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three Guardian Cruel, unforgiving, muckraking, scandalous . . . Michael Wolff concludes his Trump trilogy - with the best book Telegraph Wolff is the shrewdest chronicler of Trump Sunday Times Politics has given us some shocking and confounding moments...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHitler and My Mother-in-Law
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the colourful and complex life of the author's mother-in-law. In a time like our own of intense propaganda and manipulation, the only WWII female correspondent who covered both theatres of war, Pat Hartwell, identified Hitler from a pile of ashes for the US...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrank Meyer
"This is, simply put, the best biography I have read in years." -The Spectator World Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism—fusionism—championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in London chanted "Free Frank Meyer!" to block the deportation of a comrade who was their cause célèbre. Those...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDie Nigger Die!
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organisation Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolise the ideology of black revolution. Die Nigger Die! is an autobiography that was first published in 1969, went through seven printings, and has long been unavailable. It chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAudience of One
No single book about the media more thoroughly captured the imagination of readers and critics in 2019 than Audience of One. Funny, acerbic and observant (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times Book Review), New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik offers a darkly entertaining (Carlos Lozada, Washington Post) history of mass media from the early 1980s to today, demonstrating how...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksUnhinged: A Parody
The perfect parody Christmas gift book for that selfish egomaniac in your life - written by Ian Martin, writer for The Thick of It and Veep. 'Laughed so much I nearly forgot the last eight years!' Otto English 'Ian Martin has produced a traumatically funny book that takes its place in the noble and historic pantheon of British political satire.'...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksSeeking Home
Seeking Home is a memoir of a childhood in China as a refugee from Nazi Germany during the turbulent years 1934-49. Richter recalls the little-known history of North China’s occupation by the Japanese during the World War II years amid the remnants of a dying British colonialism.Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLessons in Diplomacy
Is a diplomat's life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup d'état in Turkey? Lessons in Diplomacy by Leigh Turner offers a witty globe-trotting adventure through one of the most intriguing careers a person can have. Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador who led posts in Ukraine, Turkey, and Austria. He shares his...Paperback$6100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksPainting as a Pastime
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