Publication date: 1991-04-01
Dewey code: 959.70438
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.57
Review Eyes of the Eagle / Ballantine Books:
Creator: Aileen Kelly
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2008-01-31
Dewey code: 947.07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.47
Review Russian Thinkers (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Hamlin Hill
Publication date: 1982-03-25
Dewey code: 818.403
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.44
Review Roughing It (American Library) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2006-03-30
Dewey code: 950.21092
RRP: £11.40
Price: £5.73
Review Genghis Khan's Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant / University of Oklahoma Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-04
Dewey code: 956.704431
RRP: £9.82
Price: £2.71
Review The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq / Harvest Books:
Publication date: 2006-06
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.96
Review Queen Elizabeth II: A Birthday Souvenir Album (Royal Collection) / Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd:
Creator: Philip Murphy
Publication date: 1993-09-30
Dewey code: 307
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.82
Review More Tales of the Old Gamekeepers / David & Charles PLC:
Publication date: 2008-09-09
Dewey code: 282.092273
RRP: £16.78
Price: £9.13
Review Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk about Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning / Crown Publishing Group (NY):
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-03-31
Dewey code: 306.362092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.20
Review The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: 2nd Ed
Publication date: 2006-08-24
Dewey code: 980.033092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.83
Review Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro / Ocean Press:
Publication date: 2008-10-31
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.20
Review Queen Elizabeth II / Ammonite:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-08-25
Dewey code: 598.07234092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.28
Review This Birding Life: The Best of the Guardian's Birdwatch: The Diary of a Lifetime's Hobby (Guardian) / Aurum Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.29
Review Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel / Phoenix:After his provocative Eminent Churchillians and his magisterial, award-winning Salisbury, Andrew Roberts' Napoleon and Wellington moves further back into the past to examine those titans of early 19th-century Europe. One was revolutionary, one deeply conservative. One aimed to change everything, the other aimed to achieve nothing except to stop the other changing anything. Roberts pre-empts the obvious moan regarding this well-tilled field, by pointing out that this is the first book to examine exactly what the two men thought of each other, and revealing the fascinating contradiction between what they said in public and in private. Roberts' cautious, subtle reading of character, and the narrow focus on just two men-not a mention of Rifleman Harris here-gives the book a novelistic brio. Wellington could be every bit as vainglorious as Napoleon, but Napoleon was unforgiving. Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, but Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate the Duke. And once Napoleon had gone, Wellington amassed endless trophies of his great enemy-including not one but two of the Emperor's mistresses. Roberts' wry comment: "To sleep with one of Napoleon's mistresses might be considered an accident, but to sleep with two might suggest a pattern of triumphalism. [+]" English readers, who have long lived with the notoriously bitchy comment from another of Wellington's mistresses, that one of their greatest national heroes was, in bed at least, "a cold fish," will be delighted to hear a second opinion from one of these ex-Imperial bed-warmers, that compared to Napoleon, Wellington was "beaucoup le plus fort". So there. Roberts is witty as well as wise, with chapter titles such as "The War for Clio's Ear". And he ends on a provocative, characteristically Euro-sceptic note: Wellington may have won at Waterloo, but today's "politically united Europe led by a centralised (French-led) bureaucracy", represents a final triumph for the Napoleonic vision. touché. -Christopher Hart.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-02-01
Dewey code: 959
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.94
Review The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.95
Review Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life / Granta Books:
Publication date: 2004-05-25
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.65
Review Growing Up in Fulham / Janus Publishing Co:
Publication date: 2008-10-24
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.57
Review Willie Donaldson's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics / Chambers Harrap:
Publication date: 2008-05-29
RRP: £12.00
Price: £9.41
Review Corduroy / Faber Finds:
Publication date: 2007-11-15
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.64
Review The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome / John Murray:
Edition: Berkley Trade Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2003-01-15
Dewey code: 364.1092278
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review Draw: The Greatest Gunfighters of the American West / Penguin Putnam Inc:
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