Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military
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From Merthyr to Persia: Memoirs of a Centrist Politician and Lifelong European
Aubrey JonesCurrent price €19.08Original price €22.99Aubrey Jones was born in Merthyr Tydfil the oldest son of a miner father and a teacher mother. He was educated at the local Cyfarthfa Castle school...
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Marguerite Yourcenar''s Hadrian: Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor
Keith BradleyCurrent price €82.16Original price €98.99Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires dHadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The ...
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First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
Maurizio ValsaniaCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Dispelling common myths about the first US president and revealing the real George Washington.Winner of the George Washington Prize by George Washi...
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The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns GoodwinCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Current price €26.98Original price €32.50Save 17% -
Child of Another Century: Recollections of a High Court Judge
Ronald WaterhouseCurrent price €60.79Original price €63.99The 20th century saw a period of enormous legal and social change in Britain. In these engaging memoirs Ronald Waterhouse, who sat as one of Britai...
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My Second Initiation: The Memoir of Vusi Pikoli
Mandy WienerCurrent price €17.47Original price €18.99As National Director of Public Prosecutions from 2005 until 2007, Advocate Vusi Pikoli pursued criminal charges against the current President of So...
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The New Race
Jade FergusonCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99William H.H. Johnson's The Life of Wm. H.H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black ...
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Zikrayat: Eight Jewish Women Remember Egypt
Nayra AtiyaCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Between 1948 and 1957, a period that witnessed two wars between Egypt and Israel, 60,000 members of Egypts 75,000-strong Jewish population left the...
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Blue Ghost: A helicoptter pilot writes home from 1968 Vietnam, Don''t worry about me. Us Gun-Pilots are invincible!
Larry PueschelCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99Current price €19.91Original price €23.99Save 17% -
The Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese Captivity during WWII
Schiffer Publishing LtdCurrent price €26.96Original price €30.99This is the war diary of one of the longest-serving American POWs in the Pacific. Preserved within this book is the diary of Lieutenant Walter J. ...
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The Guards Spoke Russian: Memoir of a Ukrainian Jew in a Soviet Gulag
Aryeh MalkishCurrent price €32.36Original price €38.99Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student in Ryazan when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organizing a group of political dissiden...
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Zev''s Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir
Zev YaroslavskyCurrent price €19.08Original price €22.99A LA Times Bestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. Los...
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Zev''s Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir
Zev YaroslavskyCurrent price €26.55Original price €31.99A LA Times Bestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. Lo...
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Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir
The Rt Hon Frank FieldCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the La...
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Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel
Ida MazeCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Available in English translation for the first time, Dineh, posthumously published, is an autobiographical Yiddish-language novel by Ida Maze (1893...
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Storms Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
Peter MarshallCurrent price €25.68Original price €32.50From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storms Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island...
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The Tale Of A Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom
Luke LeafgrenCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Current price €22.79Original price €23.99Save 5% -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassCurrent price €9.95Original price €11.99Current price €9.95Original price €11.99Save 17% -
When You Dare to Say Yes: Jill Derby and Nevada Activism
Jill DerbyCurrent price €39.00Original price €46.99In 1973, a radical choice that Jill Derby made while under pressure changed the trajectory of her career from a potential profession in academia to...
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Calendar Boy
Austin MitchellCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99These are the highly controversial memoirs of Austin Mitchell, local TV star of the 1970s and MP for Great Grimsby. Austin was the poster boy for ...
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Homage to Catalonia
George OrwellCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions an...
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I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
Julian BorgerCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegi...
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