Publication date: 2008-04-08
Dewey code: 960
RRP: £14.95
Price: £14.95
Review Kenya Cowboy / 30 Degrees South Publishers:
Publication date: 2008-11
Dewey code: 941.082092
Price: £26.02
Review Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 / Harper:
Publication date: 2000-05-18
RRP: £25.00
Price: £26.02
Review Margaret Thatcher Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter / Jonathan Cape Ltd:Love her or hate her, there is no escaping the impact that Margaret Thatcher has made upon post-war British Politics. The 1980s are indelibly marked as the Thatcher years, and her rise from Grantham grocer's daughter to Finchley MP in 1959, Leader of the Conservative Party by 1975, and Prime Minister by 1979 was as tenacious as it was controversial. Since being ousted from power, biographers have been busy reassessing her legacy. By far the most distinguished account to date is John Campbell's Margaret Thatcher. Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter. Campbell's credentials for the job are impeccable, having already written the acclaimed biography of Thatcher's great rival, Edward Heath, winner of the 1994 NCR Book Award. As he explains from the outset, this is not an authorised biography, but Thatcher's office made no attempt to prevent the reconstruction of Thatcher's life from her birth in Grantham to her entry into Downing Street. This is a blessing, as Campbell's immensely readable and even-handed book challenges the idealised myth of Thatcher's early life and indoctrination into the "Victorian values" of her Methodist father Alderman Roberts. According to Campbell, Thatcher reinvented herself as a wealthy Home Counties lady, through her difficult years at Oxford, marriage to Denis, and sexist responses from her party throughout her early years in Opposition. However, as her status as a "conviction politician" grew, and with the General Election of 1979 looming, she radically changed her image: "In place of the Home Counties Tory lady in a stripy hat, married to a rich husband, whose children had attended the most expensive private schools, she forced the media to redefine her as a battling meritocrat who had raised herself by hard work from a humble provincial background. [+]" Campbell's story is always compelling, his research meticulous, and his sweep of the political skulduggery of the 60s and 70s masterful. Margaret Thatcher is an absorbing story of the creation of a modern political myth. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-08-01
Dewey code: 303.34
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.35
Review The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Publication date: 2001-05-03
Price: £10.99
Review Margaret Thatcher: The Grocer's Daughter v.1: The Grocer's Daughter Vol 1 / Pimlico:Love her or hate her, there is no escaping the impact that Margaret Thatcher has made upon post-war British Politics. The 1980s are indelibly marked as the Thatcher years, and her rise from Grantham grocer's daughter to Finchley MP in 1959, Leader of the Conservative Party by 1975, and Prime Minister by 1979 was as tenacious as it was controversial. Since being ousted from power, biographers have been busy reassessing her legacy. By far the most distinguished account to date is John Campbell's Margaret Thatcher. Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter. Campbell's credentials for the job are impeccable, having already written the acclaimed biography of Thatcher's great rival, Edward Heath, winner of the 1994 NCR Book Award. As he explains from the outset, this is not an authorised biography, but Thatcher's office made no attempt to prevent the reconstruction of Thatcher's life from her birth in Grantham to her entry into Downing Street. This is a blessing, as Campbell's immensely readable and even-handed book challenges the idealised myth of Thatcher's early life and indoctrination into the "Victorian values" of her Methodist father Alderman Roberts. According to Campbell, Thatcher reinvented herself as a wealthy Home Counties lady, through her difficult years at Oxford, marriage to Denis, and sexist responses from her party throughout her early years in Opposition. However, as her status as a "conviction politician" grew, and with the General Election of 1979 looming, she radically changed her image: "In place of the Home Counties Tory lady in a stripy hat, married to a rich husband, whose children had attended the most expensive private schools, she forced the media to redefine her as a battling meritocrat who had raised herself by hard work from a humble provincial background. [+]" Campbell's story is always compelling, his research meticulous, and his sweep of the political skulduggery of the 60s and 70s masterful. Margaret Thatcher is an absorbing story of the creation of a modern political myth. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- John McCarthy
- Jill Morrell
Dewey code: 323
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.99
Review Some Other Rainbow / Bantam Press:
Authors
- Coryne Hall
- John Van Der Kiste
Publication date: 2004-02-25
Dewey code: 947.083092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.66
Review Once a Grand Duchess / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-04-20
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.56
Review Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 951.0099
RRP: £19.95
Price: £11.35
Review Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient China (Chronicle) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-04-11
RRP: £10.00
Price: £7.51
Review Winter in the Morning: Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-45 (Virago classic non-fiction) / Virago Press Ltd:
Creator: Michael Maloney
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-04-30
Dewey code: 941.066092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.73
Review The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Selections / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2006-11-23
RRP: £30.00
Price: £17.93
Review Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution / Profile Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-06-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.89
Review Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer / Vintage:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-11-11
Dewey code: 332.64273
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.68
Review Once in Golconda: True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-38 (Wiley Investment Classics) / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1996-03-31
Dewey code: 355
Price: £4.89
Review The Walking Dead: a Marine's Story of Vietnam / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1995-10-01
Dewey code: 978
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.00
Review Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-49 v. 1 (Covered Wagon Women): Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 ... Trails, 1840-1849 v. 1 (Covered Wagon Women) / University of Nebraska Press:
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
Publication date: 2005-06-22
Dewey code: 327.1247073092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.09
Review Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight - the Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring / Da Capo Press Inc:
Creator: John McIlwain
Publication date: 2005-03-01
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.58
Review Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot (Pitkin Guides) (Pitkin Guides) / Pitkin Unichrome Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-02
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.00
Review Walter Schellenberg: The Memoirs of Hitler's Spymaster / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Creator: David Crooks
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 940.544941092
RRP: £16.00
Price: £7.77
Review Johnny Checketts: The Road to Biggin Hill - A Gripping Story of Courage in the Air and Evasion on the Ground / Grub Street:
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