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The Shah

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Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social...
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Virgil
A Life

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro—Virgil—grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has...
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George VI

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Despite his struggle with a crippling shyness and sense of inadequacy, exacerbated by the stammer that was the focus of the Oscar-winning film The King’s...
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Roy Ward Baker
British Film Makers

Manchester University Press
This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film...
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The Strongman
Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

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Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed....
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Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years
Speaking out Against Hitler in the Prelude to War

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In 1928, Winston Churchill was at the height of his career. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a powerful and popular orator, leadership of the Conservative Party...
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Goering
Hitler's Iron Knight

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Hermann Goering was Hitler’s most loyal supporter, his designated successor, and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of...
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Falling for Icarus
A Journey among the Cretans

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On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen...
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Albert
A Life

I.B. Tauris
Albert, prince consort to Queen Victoria and social and cultural visionary in his own right, defined the culture and direction of nineteenth century Britain—a...
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Masters of Mystery
The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

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Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan...

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Queen Victoria

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Dead for little more than one hundred years, Queen Victoria has already been the subject of more biographies than any other woman born since 1800. This newest...
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Edward VII
The Last Victorian King

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To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was “poor Bertie,” to his wife he was “my dear little man,” while the President of France called him “a great English king,”...
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Michael Collins
The Man Who Made Ireland

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When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death...
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Joan of Arc
Her Story

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In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film...
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George IV
The Rebel Who Would Be King

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Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his...
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Charles I
A Life of Religion, War and Treason

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When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone become ruler of England and Scotland. Once shy and retiring, an...
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My Dream of Stars
From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer

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In her heartwarming and empowering memoir, space pioneer Anousheh Ansari tells the story of her childhood in Iran and her family's exodus to America after the...
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Amelia Earhart
The Turbulent Life of an American Icon

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When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her...
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The Dream
How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions

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The sky's-the-limit story of one of America's most successful young internet entrepreneurs
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This Has Happened
An Italian Family in Auschwitz

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In the vein of Primo Levi's bestseller Survival in Auschwitz comes this rare and stark testimonial of an Italian woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps...
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Frank Sinatra
History, Identity, and Italian American Culture
Italian and Italian American Studies

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No one represents the Italian American journey from undesirable outsiders to embraced citizens better than Frank Sinatra. From impoverished beginnings in an...
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Target Zero
A Life in Writing

Palgrave Macmillan
Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero...
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Charles Dickens
The Making of a Literary Giant

Palgrave Macmillan
With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the...
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Ariel Sharon
An Intimate Portrait

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A groundbreaking eyewitness account of the key moments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of one of its lead players, Ariel Sharon, as...