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Cleopatra the Great

23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joann Fletcher

£7.99 23 Jul 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The first major biography of Cleopatra for over thirty years -- a gripping, intimate account of the life of an amazing woman.

Memoirs

18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Marie Mancini and Hortense Mancini

By Marie Mancini, Hortense Mancini

£31.00 18 Jul 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

The memoirs of Hortense (1646-99) and Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, members of court of Louis XIV, represent earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. This title chronicles the beginnings of women's rights within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.

African American Leaders of Maryland

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Portrait Gallery

By Suzanne Ellery Chapelle, Glenn O. Phillips

£13.50 17 Jul 2008 Paperback Maryland Historical Society

A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. It includes luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall.

The Ascent of the Matterhorn

16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edward Whymper

£9.99 16 Jul 2008 Paperback Gibson Square Books Ltd

In July 1865 Edward Whymper became the most talked-about man in the Victorian age. He had climbed the Matterhorn, one of the last mountains to be conquered in the Alps, but he earned his glory at a huge cost. A rope snapped during the descent and four of his team fell to their deaths.

John Ringo, King of the Cowboys

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone

By David Johnson

£20.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University of North Texas Press,U.S.

John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. This title offers information on Ringo.

The Centennial Senator

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

True Stories of Strom Thurmond from the People Who Knew Him Best

By R. J. Duke Short

£23.95 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs

A portrait of US Senator J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina through personal reflections from more than one hundred fifty friends, staffers, colleagues, and constituents.

The Education of Henry Adams

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Centennial Version

By Henry Adams

£13.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Massachusetts Historical Society

Using the author's background information, this book places the protagonist in front of life's various pitfalls with the object of providing those stepping out into the world with the tools they need to handle themselves in the face of adversity.

The Persistence of Hope

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Albert Alcalay

By Albert Alcalay

£37.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Associated University Presses

A story of the impact of the Nazi rise to power on the life of a Jewish youth from Belgrade who becomes a vibrant artist in Rome, then Boston, where he joins the Harvard faculty.

Buffalo Bill on Stage

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sandra K. Sagala

£20.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University of New Mexico Press

Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, "Buffalo Bill" led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. This book chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions.

A Missouri Railroad Pioneer

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Louis Houck

By Joel P. Rhodes

£27.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University of Missouri Press

Reviews the life of Houck from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. This title tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through "Swampeast Missouri".

Colored Memories

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton

By Susan Curtis

£27.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University of Missouri Press

Lester A Walton was African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist. This book, while exploring the contours of his life, seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed.

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (v. 30)

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ulysses S. Grant

£68.50 15 Jul 2008 Hardback Southern Illinois University Press

In the final weeks of the 1880 campaign, Ulysses S Grant left Galena and headed east to stump for the Republican ticket. At rallies in New England, upstate New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City, sometimes several times a day, the reticent Grant warmed to his role.

Captain Alex MacLean

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jack London's "Sea Wolf"

By Don MacGillivray

£66.95 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University of British Columbia Press

Alex MacLean was a sailor and sealer, originally from Cape Breton. When he was just 21, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America, where he operated for 35 years. This is not only the story of this character but also the construction of his legend.

Captivated

10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of Neverland

By Piers Dudgeon

£18.99 10 Jul 2008 Hardback Vintage

Piers Dudgeon knew Daphne du Maurier and worked with her in the 1980s. When he discovered that she had put a moratorium on publication of her adolescent diaries until fifty years after her death, he was prompted to begin his researches into her background. What was the mystery that had Daphne been so keen to suppress?

Rebel Giants

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin

By David R. Contosta

£17.99 09 Jul 2008 Hardback Prometheus Books

12 February 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the extraordinary and influential men in history - Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. This title examines the lives and careers of Lincoln (the political rebel) and Darwin (the scientific rebel), and notes.

Cochrane the Dauntless

07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860

By David Cordingly

£8.99 07 Jul 2008 Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Features the adventures of Thomas Cochrane.

Marie Therese

07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

By Susan Nagel

£25.00 07 Jul 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

In January, 1796, Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI arrived in Vienna in the care of her first cousin, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, who had smuggled her out of France after the Reign of Terror. This biography sheds light on the life of daughter of Marie Antoinette.

Hadrian

07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

£40.00 07 Jul 2008 Hardback British Museum Press

Hadrian is known for his ambitious nature, his interest in architecture and his passion for Greece and Greek culture. This book offers an appraisal of this Emperor, exploring the contradictions in his personality and his role as a ruthless military leader, against the backdrop of his 21-year reign, in which he travelled throughout his empire.

Hadrian

07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

£25.00 07 Jul 2008 Paperback British Museum Press

Hadrian is known for his restless and ambitious nature, his interest in architecture and his passion for Greece and Greek culture. This book and exhibition offer an appraisal of this Emperor, exploring the sharp contradictions in his personality and his role as a ruthless military leader.

King's Mistress, Queen's Servant

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Henrietta Howard

By Tracy Borman

£12.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Vintage

Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. Providing an insight into the dynamics of the Georgian court, this biography reveals a woman who was far more than the mistress to the King: a dedicated patron of the arts; and a lively and talented intellectual in her own right.

The Plot Against Pepys

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By James Long, Ben Long

£9.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Catholic agents are plotting to overthrow the king. Now Samuel Pepys finds himself charged with treason. Imprisoned in the Tower of London Pepys sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott, and uncovers a life riddled with ambition, forgery, treason and, ultimately, murder.

The Man Who Outshone the Sun King

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Drazin

£17.99 03 Jul 2008 Hardback Arrow Books Ltd

Tells the story of Nicolas Fouquet's adventures as a tax-collector, caught up in rebellion in the Dauphine, of the loyalty and service that he gave to Cardinal Mazarin and of the financial wizardry that somehow kept France's finances together.

The Perfect King

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

By Ian Mortimer

£8.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Vintage

He usurped his father's throne, he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years, and taxed his people more than any other previous king. Yet for centuries Edward III was celebrated as one of the brilliant kings England had ever had. This work shows how Edward provided the impetus for his fifty-year reign.

Mary Queen of Scots

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

And the Murder of Lord Darnley

By Alison Weir

£8.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Vintage

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, the naked corpses of Darnley and his valet. Neither had died in the explosion, but both bodies bore marks of strangulation.

Royal Affairs

02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British

By Leslie Carroll

£8.99 02 Jul 2008 Paperback New American Library

"Royal Affairs" is a funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals.

Political Portraits: Fidel Castro Reflects on Famous Figures in History

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Castro, Fidel

£9.31 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Ocean Press (AU)

A prominent figure himself on the world stage for fifty years, Fidel Castro offers some fascinating and perceptive comments on historical figures and some of his contemporaries, including: Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara, Jos Mart, Simn Bolvar, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Oswaldo Guayasamn, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Joseph Stalin, and Jesus Christ.

With remarkable objectivity, and surprisingly little rancor or bitterness toward his foes, this selection offers as much insight into Fidel Castro as it does into those he discusses.

This is the perfect complement to other Ocean Press books by Fidel Castro, such as Fidel Castro Reader (Spring 2007), Fidel and Religion, and My Early Years. The book includes twelve pages of photographs of Fidel with some of the personalities he discusses here.

This title is also published in Spanish.

Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of the Original People's Princess

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chambers, James

£14.99 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Old Street Publishing

Historian and author Chambers presents the tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians.

Young Men & Fire

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By MacLean, Norman

£13.71 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Highbridge Classics

On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in Montana wilderness. Less than an hour later, all but three were dead or fatally burned in a "blowup," an explosive 2,000 degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall.

Winner of a 1992 National Book Critic Award, "Young Men & Fire" consumed 14 years of Norman Maclean's life. He sifted through grief and controversy in search of the truth about the Mann Gulch tragedy, then wrote about it in excruciating detail. The sobering story of the worst disaster in the history of the Forest Service also embraces the themes of honor, death, compassion, rebirth, and the human spirit.

Thirty-Six Years in the White House

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pendel, Thomas

£8.76 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Applewood Books

In his 1902 memoir, Thomas Pendel documents his experiences as White House doorkeeper from the Lincoln presidency to the adminstration of Theodore Roosevelt. First assigned to duty at the White House on November 3, 1864, Pendel had only been at the White House a short time when he was chosen to be Lincoln's guard. In his post, he observed not only the tragedy of two assassinations, those of Lincoln and Garfield, but also the joys of the personal lives of the Presidents and those who worked for him. As he notes, "there have been many happy days at the White House; many dark and dreary ones as well" (New York Times, October, 10 1886). Pendel's work is full of amusing anecodotes and insights into the personalities of those living and working in the White House.

Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Perret, Geoffrey

£24.70 01 Jul 2008 Non-Book Item Blackstone Audiobooks

Perret's absorbing biography explains how Grant he triumphed in war by creating a new approach to battle, and why, as Americas first modern leader, he was so widely misunderstood and underrated as president.

Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Perret, Geoffrey

£65.93 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Blackstone Audiobooks

Marching Through Georgia

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ellis, Jerry

£21.57 01 Jul 2008 Non-Book Item Brilliance Audio

Marching Through Georgia

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ellis, Jerry

£13.71 01 Jul 2008 Non-Book Item Brilliance Corporation

Davy Crockett: My Own Story

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Crockett, David

£10.98 01 Jul 2008 Non-Book Item Tantor Media

Legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett uses the master storytelling abilities that made him a dynamic political campaigner to record this narrative of his life.

Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dalin, David G. Rothmann, John F.

£10.98 01 Jul 2008 Non-Book Item Tantor Media

The definitive account of the little-known 1920s Palestinian leader who allied himself with Hitler and forms the hidden link between the fascism of the twentieth century and the new fascism of the twenty-first.

Davy Crockett: My Own Story

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Crockett, David

£21.97 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Tantor Media

Legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett uses the master storytelling abilities that made him a dynamic political campaigner to record this narrative of his life.

Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dalin, David G. Rothmann, John F.

£27.47 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Tantor Media

Davy Crockett: My Own Story

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Crockett, David

£10.98 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Tantor Media

Legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett uses the master storytelling abilities that made him a dynamic political campaigner to record this narrative of his life.

Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dalin, David G. Rothmann, John F.

£13.73 01 Jul 2008 Compact Disk Tantor Media

Lady Anne Blunt: A Biography

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Biography

By Winstone, H. V. F.

£9.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Barzan Publishing

Lady Anne Blunt's biography comes at the end of a line of famous portraits including that of her grandfather, Lord Byron. She is the first European woman to make a recorded journey into Central Arabia. Her sketches and diaries of her journeys were transformed into books describing the people and experiences she encountered along the way.

Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vache's War Letters & Other Writings

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rosemont, Franklin Vache, Jacques

£10.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Charles H Kerr

The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stuart, Nancy Rubin

£15.91 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Beacon Press

Making Peace with Cochise: The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sladen, Joseph Alton

£10.96 01 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Oklahoma Press

A tribute to the legendary chief and his people and a rememberance of two courageous officers

A Priest, a Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans a Priest, a Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans: The Lives of Fourteen

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Blevins, Don

£8.21 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Two Dot Books

King of the Pirates

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Swashbuckling Life of Henry Every

By E. T. Fox

£14.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback The History Press Ltd

A biography of Henry Every, covering his birth and early career, mutinies and an examination of the evidence surrounding his eventual disappearance.

Charles Tyson Yerkes

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Traction King of London

By Tim Sherwood

£16.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback The History Press Ltd

Yerkes' impact upon London was seismic and his legacy controversial. He made his fortune in the Chicago Street railways but his shady deals and turbulent private life led him to London seeking a new playground, having married his latest mistress, 40 years his junior.

American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy

By Heymann, C. David

£9.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Atria Books

In the definitive history of the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy, the bestselling author of "RFK" brings to light new evidence that reveals, as never before, the contrasting lives of the children of Camelot. of b & w photos.

The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Porter, Linda

£15.36 01 Jul 2008 Hardback St. Martin's Press

Porter offers this groundbreaking new biography of Mary Tudor, a queen best remembered for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake, but whose passion, will, and sophistication have for centuries been overlooked. 16-page b&w photo insert.

Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Colonel Edward M. House

By Godfrey Hodgson

£15.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Yale University Press

The importance of Colonel Edward M House in 20th-century American foreign policy is enormous: from 1913 to 1919 he served not only as intimate friend and chief political adviser to President Woodrow Wilson but also as national security adviser and senior diplomat. This book establishes his contributions as one of the greatest American diplomats.

My Life with Che: The Making of a Revolutionary

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gadea, Hilda

£12.06 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the legendary figure, revealing his lesser-known side as a romantic wanderer, a philosopher, and doting suitor and father.

Stop Press: A Life in Journalism

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Life in Journalism

By Aziz, Inam

£10.99 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press, USA

These are the memoirs of Inam Aziz, a respected journalist, who rose to become the editor of Jang, Pakistan's most widely circulated Urdu daily. He is also remembered for his editorship of the Urdu daily Millat during the time of Pakistan's former ruler General Ziaul Haq when he fought a lonely battle for representative government in the country against the dictatorial policies of the General.

Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Very Short Introduction

By Boehmer, Elleke Lodge, Tom

£7.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

As well as being a remarkable statesman, Nelson Mandela has become a universal symbol of justice, a secular saint. Elleke Boehmer examines not only the great anti-apartheid leader's life, but also the ways in which images and representations have been used to create the Mandela we know today - an internationally recognized icon of freedom.

The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ronald, Susan

£8.76 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Harper Perennial

Historian Ronald offers a fresh look at Elizabeth I, focusing on her uncanny instinct for financial survival and her superior intellect that propelled and sustained her rise, including her use of piracy to transform her realm into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. 16-page b&w photo insert.

A Daughter's Love

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thomas and Margaret More

By John Guy

£25.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning author of 'My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots'.

Spitfire Pilot

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Crook, Richard Overy

£8.99 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Grub Street

Written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich, this work presents a personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that epic contest.

Hadrian

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

£40.00 30 Jun 2008 Hardback British Museum Press

Hadrian

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

£25.00 30 Jun 2008 Paperback British Museum Press

Secret Lives of the Civil War

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cormac O'Brien

£9.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Quirk Books,US

Presents facts about Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S Grant, Robert E Lee, John Wilkes Booth, and Harriet Tubman. This book includes 30 portraits by Monika Suteski and some rendered maps.

The General and Mrs Washington

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bruce Chadwick

£8.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Sourcebooks, Inc

In telling the story of George and Martha Washington, noted historian Bruce Chadwick explains not only the couple's remarkable devotion to each other, but also why the wealthiest couple in Virginia became revolutionaries who risked the loss of not only their vast estates, but also their very lives.

Anne Frank

27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Biography

By Melissa Muller

£10.99 27 Jun 2008 Paperback Henry Holt & Company Inc

Presenting revelations, this book returns Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalised and so all the more affecting. It offers an understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived.

A Very Unimportant Officer

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele

By Alexander Stewart

£18.99 26 Jun 2008 Hardback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The extraordinary letters and diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart, who served during the First World War, edited by his grandson, Cameron Stewart. This book is a vivid and moving picture of trench warfare punctuated with flashes of dark humour.

Casanova

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ian Kelly

£20.00 26 Jun 2008 Hardback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The definitive history of the world's greatest lover, from the author of the bestselling BEAU BRUMMELL

Billy the Kid

21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Endless Ride

By Michael Wallis

£9.99 21 Jun 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

From the bestselling author of "Route 66" comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes. Award-winning historian Wallis re-creates the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), who became a legend in his own time. Archival photos.

Churchill's Cigar

20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Lifelong Love Affair Through War and Peace

By Stephen McGinty

£7.99 20 Jun 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan

Explores Churchill's passion for cigars and the solace they brought. This book also examines Churchill's lasting friendship with Antonio Giraudier, the Cuban businessman who for twenty years stocked Churchill's humidor, before fleeing Castro's revolution.

Memoirs

20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Marie Mancini and Hortense Mancini

By Marie Mancini, Hortense Mancini

£12.50 20 Jun 2008 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Memoirs

20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Marie Mancini and Hortense Mancini

By Marie Mancini, Hortense Mancini

£31.00 20 Jun 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

African American Leaders of Maryland

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Portrait Gallery

By Suzanne Ellery Chapelle, Glenn O. Phillips

£13.50 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Maryland Historical Society

Blind Jack of Knaresborough

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Arnold Kellett

£9.99 19 Jun 2008 Paperback The History Press Ltd

Jack Metcalf was blinded by smallpox at the age of six, but he did not let this stop him from leading an astonishing and adventurous life - becoming an expert horseman, gambler and guide. He eloped at the age of twenty-one; ran numerous enterprises; joined the military as a musician, and led the Yorkshire Blues onto the battlefield at Culloden.

Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession

18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer

By Corey Sandler

£9.99 18 Jun 2008 Paperback Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

First in Peace

17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How George Washington Set the Course for America

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

£13.99 17 Jun 2008 Hardback The Perseus Books Group

An internationally acclaimed historian and essayist explores the presidency of Washington and considers his conflict with Jefferson-a conflict that determined the future of America

The Ascent of the Matterhorn

16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edward Whymper

£9.99 16 Jun 2008 Paperback Gibson Square Books Ltd

Madame De Maintenon

16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Secret Wife of Louis XIV

By Veronica Buckley

£25.00 16 Jun 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Tells the story of Francoise d'Aubigne's progress from governess to royal mistress and thence, in secret, to the compromised position of Louis' uncrowned Queen. This book presents a rags-to-riches tale of the marquise de Maintenon that reveals each layer of the vibrant and shocking world that was France in the age of Louis XIV.

John Ringo, King of the Cowboys

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone

By David Johnson

£20.50 15 Jun 2008 Hardback University of North Texas Press,U.S.

The Centennial Senator

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

True Stories of Strom Thurmond from the People Who Knew Him Best

By R. J. Duke Short

£23.95 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs

A portrait of US Senator J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina through personal reflections from more than one hundred fifty friends, staffers, colleagues, and constituents.

Colored Memories

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton

By Susan Curtis

£27.50 15 Jun 2008 Hardback University of Missouri Press

Thomas Jefferson

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Draftsman of a Nation

By Natalie Bober

£10.50 15 Jun 2008 Paperback University of Virginia Press

To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. This book takes into the Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time.

The Union vs. Dr. Mudd

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hal Higdon

£17.50 15 Jun 2008 Paperback University Press of Florida

One question remains unanswered in the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Was Samuel A Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, guilty or innocent of participating in the conspiracy to murder the president? This book offers an account of Mudd's testimony, trial, and imprisonment.

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (v. 30)

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ulysses S. Grant

£68.50 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Southern Illinois University Press

Wade Hampton

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer

By Rod Andrew

£27.50 15 Jun 2008 Hardback The University of North Carolina Press

Few Southern elites gave more to the Confederate cause or suffered more in its defeat than General Wade Hampton III of South Carolina. This book reveals Hampton's critical role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, US senator, and Redeemer; and his heroic image in the minds of white Southerners.

Devil's Game

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham

By Carman Cumming

£11.99 15 Jun 2008 Paperback University of Illinois Press

Traces the career of Charles A Dunham, Civil War spy, forger, journalist, and master of dirty tricks. This book offers assessment of Dunham's motives, personality, and the complex effects of his schemes that changes assumptions about covert operations during the Civil War.

Golda Meir

14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The First Woman Prime Minister in the West

By Elinor Burkett

£17.99 14 Jun 2008 Hardback Gibson Square Books Ltd

The Guynd

13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Scottish Journal

By Belinda Rathbone

£8.99 13 Jun 2008 Paperback The Quantuck Lane Press

My Father's Roses

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

One Family, Two Wars, Three Generations Divided by Fate and Bound Through Love

By Nancy Kohner

£18.99 12 Jun 2008 Hardback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Like the story behind 'Suite Francaise, the author died shortly after completing this moving family memoir based on diaries and letters that her father brought out of Prague before the Holocaust.

Unwilling Martyr

11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life and Death of Jan Masaryk

By Susan Eisenhower, Ronald L. Goldfarb

£13.99 11 Jun 2008 Hardback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Churchill and the Jews

10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Martin Gilbert

£9.99 10 Jun 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

A fascinating and revealing exploration of Sir Winston Churchill's relationship with Israel, Jews and Jewishness, by his official biographer and one of the foremost historians of Judaism.

Dreams from My Father

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

£8.99 05 Jun 2008 Paperback Canongate Books Ltd

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. This memoir illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.

Nixon

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

£17.99 05 Jun 2008 Paperback Quercus Publishing Plc

Beginning with Nixon's birth to Quaker parents in 1913 and ending with his death in 1994, this work traces Nixon's career, assessing both his achievements and the evolution of popular and historical thinking about him since his death.

The Diary of Helena Morley

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Bishop

£8.99 05 Jun 2008 Paperback Little, Brown Book Group

The diary of a young Brazilian girl at the end of the nineteenth century. Introduced and translated by Elizabeth Bishop, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.

The Last Fighting Tommy

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches

By Harry Patch

£14.99 05 Jun 2008 Audio Cd Little, Brown Book Group

Poignant and fascinating memoir from the last surviving veteran of the trenches.

The Red Prince

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe

By Timothy Snyder

£20.00 05 Jun 2008 Hardback Vintage

Tattooed, bisexual, crossdressing, multilingual, Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg was a major - and symbolic - figure in 20th-century European culture and politics. This is a biography of the Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947).

A Woman in Charge

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

By Carl Bernstein

£10.99 05 Jun 2008 Paperback Arrow Books Ltd

Reveals the trajectory of Hillary Clinton's life and career. This book provides an account of the complex human being and political meteor who has helped define one presidency.

Golda Meir

03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The First Woman Prime Minister in the West

By Elinor Burkett

£17.99 03 Jun 2008 Hardback Gibson Square Books Ltd

Storm Command

03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By Peter De La Billiere

£11.99 03 Jun 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

To Father

03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623--1633

By Dava Sobel

£14.99 03 Jun 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

The story of Galileo's daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, as told through her letters to her father. A companion to the bestselling Galileo's Daughter, the letters are edited and introduced by Dava Sobel.

Germany Calling

02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Personal Biography of William Joyce - 'Lord Haw-Haw'

By Mary Kenny

£11.99 02 Jun 2008 Paperback Max Press

Blair Unbound

02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthony Seldon

£9.99 02 Jun 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

A stunning conclusion to Anthony Seldon's definitive account of the Blair premiership, covering his tenure from 9/11 to his departure from Number 10.

Journey to Nowhere

02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

One Woman Looks for the Promised Land

By Eva Figes

£14.99 02 Jun 2008 Hardback Granta Books

In the spring of 1939, six-year-old Eva Unger came to settle in London. Born in Berlin, her middle-class Jewish family managed to get out of Nazi Germany, leaving behind their orphan housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, with Eva assimilated into post-war British society, word arrived from Edith in Palestine, asking for her old job back.

The Last Fighting Tommy

02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches

By Harry Patch, Richard Van Emden

£7.99 02 Jun 2008 Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Tells the story of a man whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty prime ministers.