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Pike

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Published 17-Jan-2013


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The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio: poet, daredevil - and Fascist.


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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

By Stephen Grady

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Published 14-Feb-2013


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An extraordinary French Resistance wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.


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Everybody Matters

By Mary Robinson

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Published 13-Sep-2012


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Moving memoir from the first female President of Ireland, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.


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Commander

By Stephen Taylor

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Published 06-Sep-2012


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Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a man overboard. This title presents his portrait.


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Black Count

By Tom Reiss

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Published 20-Sep-2012


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Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantation slave, General Alexandre Dumas did not have an auspicious start in life. This book traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father.


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Ed

By Mehdi Hasan

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Published 01-Oct-2012


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Ed Miliband is perhaps the least understood political leader of modern times. This book reveals where he has come from and where he is going.


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Memoirs of a Revolutionary

By Victor Serge

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Published 28-Jun-2012


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Homage to Catalonia

By George Orwell

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Published 30-Mar-2000


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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War.


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Infidel

By Ayaan Ali

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Published 08-Mar-2008


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The astonishing and bestselling life story of the renowned campaigner for religious tolerance and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.


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Just Boris

By Sonia Purnell

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Published 01-Mar-2012


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A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life.


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