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Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	François Mitterrand The Last French President Ronald Tiersky Palgrave Macmillan Tiersky examines three major themes of Mitterrand’s presidency--socialism, national reconciliation, and building Europe--and shows that on each count,...

Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Joan of Arc Her Story Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin; Translated by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams Palgrave Macmillan In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film...

Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	A Ragged Schooling Growing Up in the Classic Slum Robert Roberts Mandolin In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford...

Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	A Passion for Egypt Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the 'Curse of the Pharaohs' Julie Hankey Tauris Parke Paperbacks This compelling biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist and Chief Inspector of Antiquities, chronicles his involvement with the discovery of...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Sultan's Admiral Barbarossa: Pirate and Empire Builder Ernle Bradford Tauris Parke Paperbacks In this definitive biography, Ernle Bradford has brilliantly recreated Barbarossa’s remarkable life alongside a vivid portrayal of the Ottoman and...

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Amelia Earhart

The Turbulent Life of an American Icon

Kathleen C. Winters Palgrave Macmillan

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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Trade Paperback : $43.00 Buy	Wild Man The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg Tom Wells Palgrave Macmillan In March 1971, Daniel Ellsberg gave The New York Times access to a classified government report revealing the secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg, a...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	St. Patrick The Life and World of Ireland's Saint J.B. Bury Tauris Parke Paperbacks St. Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Horace A Life Peter Levi Tauris Parke Paperbacks The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life—politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of the...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	George VI Denis Judd I.B. Tauris 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...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Queen Victoria A Life Lytton Strachey Tauris Parke Paperbacks Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionized the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Virgil A Life Peter Levi 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...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Michael Collins The Man Who Made Ireland Tim Pat Coogan Palgrave Macmillan 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...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	Flight The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico Ben Vinson III Palgrave Macmillan Virgil Richardson has blazed his own unique trail through the twentieth century: a co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater and radio personality in...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Madame du Barry The Wages of Beauty Joan Haslip Tauris Parke Paperbacks Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Target Zero A Life in Writing Eldridge Cleaver; Edited by Kathleen Cleaver; Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Afterword by Cecil Brown 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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Imperfect Presidents

Tales of Misadventure and Triumph

Jim Cullen Palgrave Macmillan

A refreshingly irreverent and illuminating history of ten great American presidents and their biggest mistakes

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	To Peking A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria Peter Fleming Tauris Parke Paperbacks When in 1934 at the age of twenty-seven, Peter Fleming set out for the Far East, his ultimate goal was to return from China to India overland - a journey he...

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	Patton Great Generals Alan Axelrod; Foreword by General Wesley K. Clark Palgrave Macmillan A concise and penetrating biography of one of history’s greatest yet most controversial commanders. An atavistic warrior, Patton was a leader who defined...

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	Grant Great Generals John Mosier; Foreword by General Wesley K. Clark Palgrave Macmillan The newest biography in Wesley Clark's Great Generals series details the life and legacy of one of America's most ingenious military minds

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	London Was Ours Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz Amy Helen Bell I.B. Tauris For the nine months of the Blitz, London was subjected to a brutal and indiscriminate bombing campaign, aimed for the first time in history at shattering the...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Dearest Jean Rose Macaulay's Letters to a Cousin Martin Ferguson Smith Manchester University Press These candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and...

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Edward VII

The Last Victorian King

Christopher Hibbert Palgrave Macmillan

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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Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Charles I A Life of Religion, War and Treason Christopher Hibbert Palgrave Macmillan 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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