Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A reconstruction of the 18th-century empress's life that includes coverage of such topics as her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
Nicholas and Alexandra : The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie--also available are Peter the Great and The Romanovs In this commanding book, Robert K. Massie, prize-winning author of Catherine the Great, sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial ...Show more
Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was 93 per cent and he went on to become Labour's longest-serving premier. On his first election campaign, Blair had promised that ...Show more
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
Road to Ruin - How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government by Niki Savva
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Kevin Rudd was given no warning, but even he lasted longer than Abbott. Julia Gillard had plenty of warnings, but even she lasted longer than Abbott. Abbott ignored all the warnings, from beginning to end - the public ones, the private ones, from his friends, his colleagues, the media. His colleagues we ...Show more
The Fall of the Ottomans - The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Sunday Times Top Ten Best-seller. The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from best-selling historian Eugene Rogan. For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1 ...Show more
First Among Equals: Australia's Prime Ministers from Barton to Turnbull by Kim Wildman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Since Federation in 1901, 28 men and one woman have served in the position of Australian prime minister. From Barton to Turnbull, they are the leaders who have helped forge Australia's national identity. Some have had the position thrust upon them. Some have plotted and schemed their way to the top. Fou ...Show more
100 Events That Made History
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
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Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was ...Show more
If This is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more