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Biographies
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Winston Churchill : His Times, His Crimes€15.99
In this coruscating biography, Tariq Ali challenges Churchill's vaulted record. Churchill never questioned his imperial philosophy as he became one of the architects of the postwar world we live in today.
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George III : The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch€22.99
Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty.
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Chums : How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK€11.99
A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.
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The Mandela Brief : Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid (Paperback)€15.99
Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression.
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A Small Town in Ukraine : The place we came from, the place we went back to€21.99
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
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Vita Nuova : A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text€12.99
A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.
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The Master of Masters : The Life of Josef Cretzan€19.95
From humble beginnings in Romania, Josef Cretzan went on to become one of the most accomplished glass blowers of the 20th century.
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Sybille Bedford : An Appetite for Life€13.99
Sybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death. Her father died when she was just fourteen and her mother, a great socialite and litterateur, fell victim to a debilitating morphine addiction.
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The Presidents : 250 Years of American Political Leadership€18.99
There was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election, the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden and the subsequent, horrifying response in the storming of the US capitol.
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Vanderbilt : The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty€15.99
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America.