Authors
- William Travis Hanes
- W. Travis Hanes
- Frank Sanello
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 951
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.99
Review Opium Wars / Sourcebooks, Inc:
Publication date: 2009-04-30
Dewey code: 942.031092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.50
Review Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England / Yale University Press:
Creator: Stephen Cooper
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.79
Review The Big Hunger: Stories, 1932-1959 / Black Sparrow Press,U.S.:
Creator: John Weal
Publication date: 2004-09-30
RRP: £18.99
Price: £18.98
Review Luftwaffe Fighter Ace / Grub Street Publishing:
Edition: POLS
Publication date: 2008-08-21
Dewey code: 328.73092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.14
Review Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide (For Beginners (Steerforth Press)) / FOR BEGINNERS:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1999-07-12
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.50
Review Patton: A Genius for War / HarperPerennial:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-02-23
Dewey code: 944.035
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.95
Review Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France / Portrait:
Publication date: 2004-07-22
Dewey code: 305.56209421
RRP: £12.00
Price: £3.30
Review The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class / Granta Books:
Authors
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- M.K.Gandhi
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1982-11-25
Dewey code: 320
Price: £9.99
Review An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-04-02
Dewey code: 967.6204092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £79.95
Review I Dreamed of Africa / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Stirling Moss
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1996-11-18
Dewey code: 629.20922
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.20
Review The Healey Story: A Dynamic Father and Son Partnership and Their World-beating Cars (Complete Story) / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-11-25
Price: £16.00
Review The Shorter Pepys (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 1974-09-26
Price: £15.99
Review The Life and Times of King James VI of Scotland, I of England (Kings & Queens of England S.) / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2007-07-26
Dewey code: 942.7085092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.64
Review At Her Majesty's Pleasure / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 1992-06-11
Dewey code: 822.3
Price: £19.99
Review The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe / Jonathan Cape Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-01-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.66
Review Those Who Trespass Against Us: One Woman's War Against the Nazis / Pimlico:
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £8.88
Price: £4.21
Review Stet: An Editor's Life / Grove Press:
Publication date: 2004-03-04
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.31
Review Soldier Five: The Real Story of the Bravo Two Zero Mission / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.96
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: 1st UK hardback
Publication date: 2007-10-21
Dewey code: 941.082092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £14.49
Review Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens / Frances Lincoln Publishers:
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