This is a paperbook from the same series by the same author as the Mozart book I reviewed recently. John seems now to have made his career with...
This is the story of the Strauss family of composers, particularly Johann Strauss the Elder (1804 - 1849) and his son Johann Strauss the Younger...
This is the story of Charles, 5th Duke of Rutland (1754-87), and his sailor brother Robert (1758-82), sons of the Marquis of Granby after whom...
The latest biography of the Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton...
This is a biography of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle GCB, 1765-1819, an important contributor to Nelson's success against Napoleon....
I think this is one of the more thought provoking books I've read for a while as it covers several controversial subjects and Chris gives his very...
This book is billed as "Lady Lucy Houston, aviation champion and mother of the Spitfire". This is a bit of artistic license, for she had no real...
This book looks at the life and death of Major General Sir William Ponsonby, the commander of the Union Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo where he...
When receiving this book I thought great, then on closer inspection I saw it was first published in 1924 under a pseudonym Captain X. Not so...
he first thing to state is that this book is not full of escapades of derring do by the SAS. What it is though, is a snapshot of the life of Jock...
Hello, Has anyone read this book or come across the author? I've got an opportunity to go to a book signing this weekend, and wondered if its...
Steven Lee Myers, former Bureau Chief in Russia for the New York Times, has written what is probably the best biography of Putin so far. It is not...
Until Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 Brutus was the most famous assassin in the world. The consequences of his action...
On the 15th of May, 1977, Robert Nairac went to meet a potential informant at a pub, The Three Steps Inn, at a place called Drumimtee. Shortly...
I seem to have managed to collect/obtain a fair number of books on military medicine and biographies of the men involved. This book as you can...
The book opens with the social-historical background which includes a lucid and valuable explanation on how entry, promotion, half-pay and...
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