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Margaret Thatcher The Authorized Biography
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Charles Moore |
In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volum… |
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The captain and "the cannibal"
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James Fairhead |
"Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quic… |
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The women who flew for Hitler
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Clare Mulley |
"Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a pas… |
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A bold and dangerous family
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Caroline Moorehead |
Mussolini was not only ruthless- he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him- arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible… |
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The bonanza king
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Gregory Crouch |
Traces the rags-to-riches frontier story of Irish immigrant John Mackay, describing how in mid-nineteenth-century Nevada he outmaneuvered the pernicious "Bank Ring" monopoly and thousands of rivals t… |
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The dog who could fly
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Damien Lewis |
"An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-land… |
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Ostende
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Volker Weidermann |
In 1936 brengt een groep Duitse schrijvers onder wie Stefan Zweig en Joseph Roth, die op de vlucht zijn voor nazi-Duitsland, de zomer door in Oostende. |
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Eugene V. Debs
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Steve Max,Paul Buhle,Noah Van Sciver |
Summary:"A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs. Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped… |
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