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A countdown of the 40 worst Members of Parliament in British political history. You could be forgiven for thinking that our current crop of MPs are a bunch of sleaze-ridden, money-grabbing, self-ser……続きを見る

Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson o……続きを見る

This classic collection of stories from Jerome K. Jerome include ON BEING IDLE, ON BEING IN LOVE, ON BEING IN THE BLUES, ON BEING HARD UP and many others. 続きを見る

This classic text by H.G. Wells is described as “Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters." 続きを見る

In the 1950s, public relations practitioners tried to garner respectability for their fledgling profession, and one international figure helped in that endeavor. President Dwight D. Eisenhower embra……続きを見る

One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had……続きを見る

'An excellent and important work' Literary Review 'Anyone concerned about how the bear will respond will find this historically informative account an accessible and stimulating guide' Sunday Expres……続きを見る

Marie Fleming became a household name in Ireland with her trail-blazing campaign for the right to die with dignity, when she took a landmark case against the Irish State to lift the ban on assisted ……続きを見る

A Memoir by Clarissa Eden, born a Churchill and a Prime Minister's wife at the age of 34. In 1955, at the astonishingly young age of 34, Clarissa Eden entered No. 10 Downing Street as the wife of th……続きを見る

A genuinely original biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire. 'A superb history of a memorable subject' Andrew Roberts, bestselling au……続きを見る

**New York Times bestseller Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how theyーand Americaーhave changed in the last two decades.** J……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Midnight, Tuesday 6 June 1944: the beginning of D-Day, the operation to invade Nazi-occupied Western Europe and initiate the final phase of Wor……続きを見る

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Harriet Tubman, the slave who helped hundreds of other slaves to escape Emmeline Pankhurst who wanted women to be able to vote Maria ……続きを見る

The true story of the life and mysterious murder of the most talked-about and glamorous member of Kenya’ s notorious Happy Valley set. Since Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, was discovered dead in ……続きを見る

The definitive inside account of the Falklands War, written by Margaret Thatcher herself. On 21 May 1982, the British people watched with a mixture of pride and fear as their troops landed under hea……続きを見る

The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this e-book edition. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential poli……続きを見る

A frank and honest memoir by Britain’s former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. The West’s mission in Afghanistan has never been far……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacob……続きを見る

First published as Johnson’s Life of London, now released with new material following Jubilee and Olympic celebrations in 2012. This updated history of London shows that the ingenuity, diversity, cr……続きを見る

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-200……続きを見る

It seems to me that, for the nation as for the individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities, which separately are common enough, and, alas……続きを見る

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conv……続きを見る

At the beginning of the financial crisis, in September 2008, Gordon Brown called an emergency press conference in which he declared, 'we will do whatever it takes to restore stability in the financi……続きを見る

The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden. In 1654, to the astonishment and dis……続きを見る

The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game’s social origins. All his life John Major has loved crick……続きを見る

An inspirational and vivid behind-the-scenes biography of the Gandhi family and the tumult of India’s independence by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. The granddaughter of……続きを見る

The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator ……続きを見る

The authorised – but not uncritical – life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, who was also an eminent man of letters. Michael Foot was a c……続きを見る

The first biography of Airey Neave, Colditz escapee, MI6 officer, mastermind of Margaret Thatcher’s leadership campaign and on the verge of being her first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland wh……続きを見る

From the playing fields of Eton via the horrors of the Western Front to the pinnacle of political power in 20th-century Britain – a brilliant collective biography of Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisbury……続きを見る