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The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century.The Tory War Minister, John Profumo, had been sleeping with the teenage Christine Keeler, while at the same time she had been sleeping with a Russian spy.The ensuing investigation revealed a secret...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2013-12-06
Format(s) : ePub
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The chances are good that every one of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. We come to this challenge in the most personal way possible—we want to help someone we love, but we don't know how, and we're afraid of losing ourselves in this...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2013-10-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression.In...
Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2013-04-25
Format(s) : ePub
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A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-04-18
Format(s) : ePub
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Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher,Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation's...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2013-03-28
Format(s) : ePub
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Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hurd traces its most interesting and influential exponents.He starts with...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-03-28
Format(s) : ePub
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'Adds enormously to our understanding of the man' Evening StandardGeorge Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century. He left an enduring mark on our language and culture, with concepts such as 'Big Brother' and 'Room 101.' His reputation...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-03-14
Format(s) : ePub
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Theodore Knell went through hell in the SAS - but his biggest battle began when he left. A Hell for Heroes is a searingly honest autobiography about what life in the military service is really like. This is my life story and the story of my time in the SAS. I hope that...
Editeur : Coronet
Parution : 2012-10-25
Format(s) : ePub
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In his sixtieth year, Tim follows up his bestselling book of 37 years earlier, Bullshit & Jellybeans, with this extraordinary take on his life as a 'mayor of two cities'. Every New Zealander knows Tim Shadbolt. We know him for his wide-mouthed smile, inimitable oratory,...
Editeur : Hodder Moa
Parution : 2012-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Every Aucklander of a certain age knows that we should have listened to Mayor Robbie back in the 1970s' - Labour Party MP Phil Twyford.
But who was he? And why is he still relevant today? From a working class Jewish boy in Sheffield to long serving Mayor of Auckland...
Editeur : Hodder Moa
Parution : 2012-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold a staggering 130 million albums and collected 14 Grammys. Their success has madeBono one of the most recognisable faces in the world.Here, in a series of...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-12-22
Format(s) : ePub
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An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrant From his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2011-11-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe,...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2011-11-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was also a scholar, murderer, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and one of the most remarkable women in history.The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded....
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-07-14
Format(s) : ePub
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When you fall in love with someone serving in the Armed Forces, it’s hard to imagine the impact their career will have on your life. In Don’t Say Goodbye, Fiona Stanford tells the untold story of the people left behind when our soldiers go off to fight. She reveals the...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-02-03
Format(s) : ePub
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A landmark autobiography and the definite account from a member of America's most heralded family.As a young man, Edward M Kennedy played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother, John F. Kennedy. In 1962, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-02-03
Format(s) : ePub
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CNN, AOL/Time Warner, Jane Fonda, The America's Cup: Ted Turner's story is the stuff of legend. Never before has the controversial businessman shared his personal journey. Here, for the first time, he will. In this exceptional book, Turner spares no details of his...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2010-01-07
Format(s) : ePub
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The Washington Post Bestseller - Now Updated with Five New Chapters and a New Epilogue Unlike President George. W. Bush, Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, is rarely "misunderestimated." Many of the president's opponents see Rove's hand in everything the president...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2009-06-17
Format(s) : ePub
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From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is?From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2009-06-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2007-12-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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