Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.91
Review Odette / Headline Review:
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.70
Review The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant / The History Press:
Publication date: 2002-06-05
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.95
Review Wellington: The Iron Duke / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:We associate Wellington so much with the battle of Waterloo that it's easy to forget that, before the battle, he had had a long military career already and that, after it, he had an even longer career as politician, prime minister and pillar of the establishment. Richard Holmes's admirably clear and succinct biography of the Duke has a chapter on his youth as a slightly awkward loner from the Anglo-Irish nobility and a concluding chapter which races swiftly through the 37 years of his post-Waterloo life. However the bulk of the book, unsurprisingly, is given over to a description and analysis of his military exploits. As viewers of his TV series and readers of his previous books will know, Holmes is a brilliant interpreter of battlefields and what took place on them. He has visited most of the sites of Wellington's battles, not only those in Europe but those in India where the young Arthur Wellesley, as he then was, gained his first experiences as a general. (Wellington himself, in later life, claimed that his finest military achievement was not Waterloo but the winning of the Battle of Assaye during the Maratha Wars in 1803. ) He uses his knowledge of the battle sites and his familiarity with all the extensive literature on the Peninsular War and Waterloo to produce a vivid account of Wellington's string of successes as a general. As the quotes in this book from his writings and despatches show, Wellington had a gift for the striking phrase and for concise description of complicated events. It's a gift his biographer shares and Holmes has produced a very readable and enjoyable book. -Nick Rennison.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-19
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.24
Review Galloper Jack / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2008-04-15
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £10.03
Price: £6.99
Review Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich / Hambledon Continuum:
Authors
- George Kamberelis
- Greg Dimitriadis
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-03-24
Dewey code: 370.1
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.02
Review Theory for Education (Theory 4) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2006-10-19
Dewey code: 941.0823092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.99
Review Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee, 1914-1919 / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-04-20
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.81
Review Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2008-09-15
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £15.50
Price: £6.25
Review The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman Versus Conspiracy / University Press of Kansas:
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 947.083092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.07
Review To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin / The History Press LTD:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-07-05
Dewey code: 951
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.73
Review This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood / Abacus:
Authors
- Sidney Blumenthal
- S. Blumenthal
Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 973.929
Price: £11.78
Review The Clinton Wars / Plume Books:
Publication date: 2002-04-05
Dewey code: 942.45307092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.99
Review The Goode Mr.Garbet of Wem: The Life of the Revd.Samuel Garbet, M.A. of Wem, Shropshire, 1685-1756 / Bridge Books:
Authors
- John R. Bruning
- David Bellavia
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.74
Review House to House: A Tale of Modern War / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Creator: Frank Shuffelton
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 973.440922
RRP: £11.12
Price: £6.25
Review The Letters of John and Abigail Adams / Penguin Books:
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Dewey code: 940
Price: £18.99
Review The Girl in the Red Coat / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-08-19
RRP: £20.00
Price: £5.89
Review Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:Rarely have the heroic endeavours of Captain James Cook been accorded a biographical odyssey that can match the ambition of Tony Horwitz's Into the Blue; this is an epic treatment of an epic subject. More than the picture of a remarkable and enigmatic personality, this is a panoply of an age of exploration and adventure. The three dangerous voyages that he undertook between 1768 and 1779 were unquestionably daunting for Cook and his covoyagers, but they also signified the final glorious flowering of the voyages of discovery across the surface of the planet. Cook had the distinction of discovering more of the far-flung corners of the earth than any of his predecessors. From Tahiti to Siberia, from the mysteries of Easter Island to the exotic dangers of the Great Barrier Reef, Cook and his crew brought back to the "civilised" world news of some of the most shocking aspects of the human condition and as Horwitz reports, "people listened agog to his descriptions of the horrors of cannibalism and ritualistic sexual excess. " But who was Captain James Cook? To create a complex picture of a complex man, the author revisited the exotic corners of the world that Cook had discovered, and the author's own adventures are described with maximum vividness. A picture emerges of Cook as a driven man who abandoned the tedium of farm life and Georgian London to search out strange new worlds (the jacket blurb even-bizarrely-quotes Star Trek's famous split infinitive: "Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before"). Told with as much humour as turbulent excitement, Into the Blue is a passport to a mesmerising voyage into the life of an intriguing figure. -Barry Forshaw.
Edition: Vintage Books Ed
Publication date: 1990-02
Dewey code: 973.923092
Price: £13.06
Review The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power: 1 (Years of Lyndon Johnson) / Vintage Books:
Publication date: 2006-10-10
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £11.09
Price: £7.66
Review The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House / Random House Trade:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-03-18
Dewey code: 782.42162130092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.20
Review How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger / Villard Books:
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