Creator: Susan Massotty
Edition: Definitive ed
Publication date: 1997-03-27
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £9.36
Review The Diary of a Young Girl / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2006-04-18
Dewey code: 973.099
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.03
Review Assassination Vacation / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Authors
- Annette Dumbach
- Jud Newborn
Publication date: 2007-04-12
Dewey code: 943
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.04
Review Sophie Scholl and the White Rose / Oneworld Publications:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1996-10-24
Dewey code: 973.3092
RRP: £1.90
Price: £0.01
Review The Autobiography (Dover Thrift) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Creator: Ian McIntosh
Publication date: 1997-03-24
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £22.99
Price: £16.56
Review Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader / Edinburgh University Press:
Authors
- Francis Elliott
- James Hanning
Publication date: 2007-03-19
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.99
Review Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative / HarperPress:
Authors
- Vic Piuk
- Richard Van Emden
Dewey code: 940.40941
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.49
Review Famous / Pen & Sword Military:
Creator: Peter Bondanella
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2008-08-14
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.95
Review The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-08-01
Dewey code: 950.21092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.27
Review Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World / Three Rivers Press:
Publication date: 1998-05-18
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.49
Review Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant. Acquainted fairly young with Charles James Fox, her move from parties to Parties led her to become the intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School For Scandal. But, luckily for her biographer, she also had weaknesses that were to taint her life. As gin gripped the masses, so gambling thralled the aristocracy. By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts. Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that was personal relationships for the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the Duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into his bed and her heart). She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. [+]An impressive debut, in every sense. -David Vincent.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-02-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £5.99
Price: £43.72
Review Fifty Dead Men Walking / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.38
Review A Soldier's War in Chechnya / Portobello Books Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-03-08
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £10.95
Price: £5.28
Review Enemy Coast Ahead Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson / Crecy Publishing:
Publication date: 2001-10-26
Dewey code: 324
Price: £7.99
Review Taliban: The Story of Afghan Warlords / Pan Books:Ahmed Rashid's Taliban: The story of the Afghan Warlords is the single best book available on the subject of the regime in Afghanistan responsible for harbouring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region-he has personally met and interviewed many of the Taliban's shadowy leaders. Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the aftermath of that black day. It includes details on how and why the Taliban came to power, the government's oppression of ordinary citizens (especially women), the heroin trade, oil intrigue, and-in a vitally relevant chapter-bin Laden's sinister rise to power. These pages contain stories of mass slaughter, beheadings and the Taliban's crushing war against freedom: Under Mullah Omar, it has banned everything from kite flying to singing and dancing at weddings. Rashid is for the most part an objective reporter, though his rage sometimes (and understandably) comes to the surface: "The Taliban were right, their interpretation of Islam was right, and everything else was wrong and an expression of human weakness and a lack of piety", he notes with sarcasm. He has produced a compelling portrait of modern evil. -John Miller.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-02-03
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.22
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.
Authors
- Nicholas Fraser
- Marysa Navarro
Publication date: 2003-06-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.25
Review Evita: The Real Lives of Eva Peron / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Edition: 07
Publication date: 2007-04-19
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.96
Review "Titanic" Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1982-01-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.25
Review Liverpool Miss / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-03-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.46
Review The Life of Thomas More / Vintage:Peter Ackroyd is the quintessential London writer. His wonderful biography of Dickens was lit not only by his love and understanding of the writer, but also of the city which Dickens made his own. Recent novels such as The House of Doctor Dee and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem may have taken liberties with historical fact, but their London is a fascinating, pulsating place, more their true protagonist than their eponymous heroes. Thomas More is a prime candidate for the London treatment. Born in the city, with a life of official city duties at a time when London was highly distinct from Westminster and the court, he imbued his writings (especially Richard III and his print debate with Tyndale) with a real sense of London's uniqueness. Ackroyd's treatment is thus both apposite and, of course, highly readable. He possesses a real gift for making dry history come alive with telling detail and vivid swathes of local colour. But while the new angle might imply a new understanding of the man, ultimately, the picture is overly familiar. Ackroyd's More comes out looking very much like Robert Bolt's Man for All Seasons More-a hinge between dark medievalism and modern secular conscience. Only this time he has an inner London postcode. [+]-Alan Stewart.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-02-20
Dewey code: 941.084092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.13
Review Churchill (Questions & Analysis in History) / Routledge:
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