Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 973.04960730092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.50
Review Obama: From Promise to Power / HarperCollins:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 940.547252092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.10
Review Diary of Girl in Changi, 1941-45 / Simon & Schuster Australia:
Publication date: 2004-12-07
Dewey code: 352.236
RRP: £22.99
Price: £20.01
Review Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies / Palgrave Macmillan:
Creator: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Edition: First Edition
Publication date: 2007-05-10
Dewey code: 949.5907092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £5.39
Review The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury / Libri Publications Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-07-15
Dewey code: 942.054092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.05
Review Mary Tudor (Routledge Historical Biographies) (Routledge Historical Biographies) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2001-03-15
Dewey code: 940.547243
RRP: £19.95
Price: £9.99
Review Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper / Pen & Sword Books Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-02
Dewey code: 813.6
Price: £17.01
Review American Wife / Random House:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-01-19
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.05
Review Lady Hester Stanhope: The Unconventional Life of the Queen of the Desert / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2008-02-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.50
Review Conflict of Loyalty (Politico's Great Statesmen) / Politico's Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-01-03
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.99
Review Putin's Progress / Pocket Books:
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2005-08-02
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.60
Review Terror of Tobermory / Birlinn Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-05-09
RRP: £20.00
Price: £14.29
Review Custer: Cavalier in Buckskin / Salamander Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-03-02
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Girlitude: A Portrait of the 50s and 60s / Vintage:In Strangers, her first foray into biography, Emma Tennant chronicled the lives of her eccentric, aristocratic forebears and their Scottish Gothic castle, Glen, in a languid, romantic memoir. Her next instalment, the delightfully entitled Girlitude: A Portrait of the 50s and 60s, concentrates on Tennant's own "long adolescence" from 18 to 30, her three marriages, her lovers, her experiences as a magazine journalist and first-time novelist, all set against the back-drop of the post-war boom of the 1950s and the free love and revolution of the 1960s. Tennant writes in glittering, witty prose of her life at this time: one of the last debutantes to be presented at court, she became a young woman lurching from one marriage to the next, with a small child to support, a fledgling writing career and a host of connections on the London literary scene. She remained dependent on her parents until her late 20s and never felt she had grown up until her daughter was born in 1969. "If I have given birth to a woman, I ponder afterwards, can I at last give up being a girl?" Wry and poignant by turns, Girlitude is a sparkling portrait of the writer's golden years, and a vivid account of her changing times. -Catherine Taylor.
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.14
Review Nasser (Life & Times) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Publication date: 2008-10-30
RRP: £30.00
Price: £28.50
Review Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell / Faber and Faber:When Enoch Powell died in February 1998, British politics lost one of its most remarkable and intelligent figures. A controversial politician, Powell is most widely remembered for his infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech on immigration in 1968 while the Labour government was trying to pass its race relations legislation. He was sacked from the Shadow Cabinet as a result of the ensuing outcry. Whatever the consequences for race relations in Britain-and many would still maintain that Powell helped to engender a climate of fear and mistrust in which National Front activity steadily increased for more than a decade afterwards-the speech destroyed Powell's political career. In a controversial account of a controversial man, Heffer goes some way towards rescuing Powell from demonisation-though there's no getting away from how hilariously curmudgeonly he often was. He seemed to spend his entire childhood being 81 years old; Heffer's account of the proud, spiky Classical scholar (Powell's precocity in this area was astonishing) poncing about like Socrates, his flirtation with morbid German Romanticism and his desire for war, and his success in the army despite his mannerisms and brusque, self- assured superiority do eventually make him a human, almost sympathetic character; but one is not always sure that Heffer is right to attribute irony to Powell's more drastic remarks rather than, say, arrogance or naivety. What Heffer has done-remarkably swiftly, given that he only saw Powell's most personal papers after his death-is to provide an enormous, well-sourced and sympathetic biography of a towering yet flawed figure. It has wit and an attention to detail that would have pleased the pedantic Powell in his guise of scholar. The youngest ever British professor, promoted from private to brigadier during World War Two, and a much-loved politician for two parties, Powell also wrote tolerable romantic poetry (in the mould of A. E. [+]Housman). One is left with a sense of sadness that such an intelligent and hard-working man was so coldly intellectual as never to appreciate the appalling consequences of his discussion of race and immigration. Whether or not Powell was a racist (and even his enemies seem to have doubted this) his ideas were received rapturously by those who were. But there was more to the man than that; and this is a surprisingly engaging portrait of a sometimes disagreeable genius. -Robert Potts.
Publication date: 2005-01-07
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £8.99
Review Living with the Enemy: My Secret Life on the Run from the Nazis / Metro Books,London:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-09-26
Dewey code: 943.084092
RRP: £35.00
Price: £23.10
Review Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (New Studies in European History) (New Studies in European History) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Derrick Murphy
Publication date: 2004-04-20
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.00
Review Thatcher (Flagship Historymakers) / Collins Educational:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2005-09-19
Dewey code: 941.083092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.50
Review The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Creator: B. Pearce
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £6.95
Price: £3.00
Review Tales of Sub-lieutenant Ilyin / New Park Publications Ltd:
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