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Benazir Hukoomat: Phela Daur, Kia Khoya, Kia Paya? Benazir Bhutto has been the main protagonist on Pakistan's political stage ever since the...	From Purdah to Parliament Best Price: $49.98 Born before the last vestige of Mughal civilization had quite disappeared from the subcontinent,...	White Rajahs of Sarawak Best Price: $194.12 Robert Payne has produce a short history of the Broke dinasty in Sarawak (in todays Malaysian...	Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph Best Price: $68.41 In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and...	Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 Best Price: $150.00 I have just completed editing a volume of Gouverneur Morris's diaries, for the years he...



Oliver Franks: Founding Father Oliver Franks was a man of formidable ability, unsurpassed achievements and unimpeachable moral...	Selected Writings Best Price: $16.56 This is an excellent selection of the writings of Karl Marx. This includes many writings which...	The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II: Achievement, 1851-1869 Best Price: $75.23 Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the...	Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy Best Price: $56.46 Paul C. Gutjahr has rendered a great service to American religious historians, theologians, and...	Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello Best Price: $4.41 Unlike other reviewers, I don't believe that "Secrets" requires extensive...



When Character Was King Best Price: $150.59 Ronald Reagan is easy to ridicule. He was a simple, direct, optimistic person whose decision to...	Desert Royal Best Price: $6.48 All Sultana's histrionics on behalf of women amount to just about squat. A major reason for...	John Major - The Autobiography	De Gaulle : The Ruler, 1945-1970	C.S.Lewis I do not lie when I say that this should be the only biography read on Lewis. The others are...

Juan Carlos Best Price: $44.52 A powerful biography of Spain's great king, Juan Carlos, by the pre-eminent writer on...	The Quest for C: Sir Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the British Secret Service Best Price: $1.06 A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service...	Man & Wife - Richard And Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years	Adventure of Faith Best Price: $3.00 Michael Green is one of Britain's leading evangelical churchmen, a gifted evangelist, pastor...	The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (Library of Latin America) Best Price: $4.11 An extraordinary book. One of Oxford University Press' 'Library of Latin America'...

George Washington's Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America Best Price: $12.95 For an Architect practicing in any era since Monticello was built, it has always been easy to...	Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History Best Price: $29.93 If you were asked what historical New Englander loved solitude and independence, kept a...	Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works Best Price: $65.00 Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works by Herbert A. Davidson (Oxford University Press) offers...	Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s Best Price: $8.52 FREEDOM'S ORATOR is a superb book about a major figure from the 1960s. As an historian,...	Secular and Nationalist Jinnah Best Price: $11.19 Mohammad Ali Jinnah is the most misunderstood and misrepresented figure in the political history...

Gautama Buddha Book Review of Gautama Buddha, Iqbal Singh, Oxford University Press Singh wrote this book in...	Robert Knight: Reforming Editor in Victorian India Best Price: $14.00 This volume is a historical biography of Robert Knight--a pioneering editor and the founder of ...	Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom Best Price: $4.55 Words are not enough to portray the emotion packed into the telling of Zoya's Story. Brought...	Today I Am a Ma'am: and Other Musings On Life, Beauty, and Growing Older Best Price: $1.85 THIS IS A FUNNY, FUNNY BOOK FROM A TRULY GREAT LADY! I am a 40 year old man and I still enjoyed...	American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines (Brasseys Commemorative Series Wwii) Best Price: $46.95 there are books like this one, perhaps now merely for those who are academically interested in...

God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (Brassey's Commemorative Series, Wwii) Best Price: $25.00 This is one of the best books I've ever read. Very thoroughly documented based on interviews...	The Romanovs - The Final Chapter	Patrick Kennedy: The Rise to Power Best Price: $12.19 I was initially alarmed at the slender length of the book, and had braced myself for choppy...	Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh Best Price: $8.97 `Had Hatchepsut been born a man, her lengthy rule would almost certainly be remembered for its...	Theodore Roosevelt: An American Mind Best Price: $4.75

The Life of Margaret Thatcher	At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life Best Price: $30.00 Although few of us would choose the Marquis de Sade as a friend, there can be no doubt that he...	Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918 Best Price: $215.76 Richard Holmes, the author, provides a fascinating, masterful portrait of British soldiers'...	The Last Playboy : the High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa Best Price: $39.72 If you have never heard of Porfirio Rubirosa, that's no surprise. He died in 1965, and...	Collins Gem Royal Britain: Fascinating Insight Into British Royal Life Best Price: $84.86 A fascinating illustrated guide to the British royal family, this book covers individual members...

The Reagan Diaries: Collector's Edition (Leather,Slipcase)	Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones Best Price: $0.02 Just who does David Cameron think he is? In an engaging series of landmark interviews?that will...	Odd Destiny the Life of Alexander Hamilton Best Price: $69.24 In this detailed and sympathetic biography Hecht creates a lively impression of both an...	Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents Best Price: $12.95 The author's unique approach of using boxing ranking as an approach to the president's...	George Bush: His World War II Years Best Price: $12.56 September 1944: perched on the wing of his stricken torpedo bomber, 3,000 feet above a Pacific...

A Conspiracy So Immense Best Price: $13.80 Historian David Oshinsky, Professor of History at Rutgers University, does a masterful job in...	The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste (P.S.) Best Price: $0.97 Elin McCoy's 'Emperor of Wine' is an absorbing account of the rise of wine critic...	Benazir Hukoomat: Phela Daur, Kia Khoya, Kia Paya? Benazir Bhutto has been the main protagonist on Pakistan's political stage ever since the...	From Purdah to Parliament Best Price: $49.98 Born before the last vestige of Mughal civilization had quite disappeared from the subcontinent,...	White Rajahs of Sarawak Best Price: $194.12 Robert Payne has produce a short history of the Broke dinasty in Sarawak (in todays Malaysian...

Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph Best Price: $68.41 In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and...	Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 Best Price: $150.00 I have just completed editing a volume of Gouverneur Morris's diaries, for the years he...	Oliver Franks: Founding Father Oliver Franks was a man of formidable ability, unsurpassed achievements and unimpeachable moral...	Selected Writings Best Price: $16.56 This is an excellent selection of the writings of Karl Marx. This includes many writings which...	The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II: Achievement, 1851-1869 Best Price: $75.23 Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the...

Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy Best Price: $56.46 Paul C. Gutjahr has rendered a great service to American religious historians, theologians, and...	The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.22 this book is interesting only that it is old, survived and was written by a women. if you want...	Charles I (Penguin Classic Biography)	Elizabeth I (Penguin Classic Biography) Best Price: $203.02 Jasper Ridley, in this book about the reign of Elizabeth I has some very strong opinions on his...	The Confessions of Saint Augustine Best Price: $5.00 Garry Wills' translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" brings this work...

John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father Best Price: $69.95 We heard John Paul the Great as an audio CD read by Peggy Noonan as we drove from Chicago to...	Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr Best Price: $4.24 Actor and author Scott Brick provides an excellent and powerful narration to the biography of a...	Washington: A Life Best Price: $10.60 "The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington...	When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir by Bob Kerrey Best Price: $0.24 Senator Bob Kerrey's memoir, "When I Was a Young Man", was written with a number...	Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever Best Price: $2.85 Gov. Cuomo has done a tremendous job weaving together his own commentary on our nation's...

Delta Force Best Price: $84.98 Col. Charlie Beckwith is the founder and first commanding officer of Special Forces Operational...	Napoleon: The Path to Power Best Price: $14.97 Some reviews here state that this book should not be recommended as your first on Napoleon. I...	Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman Best Price: $13.75 This book is probably the most fasinating biography I have read. Sherman was an talented...	Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Best Price: $4.64 A great book despite having been edited by what must be a plant by the Taleban! Marcus: thank...	Cleopatra: A Life Best Price: $6.90 Reality television is incredibly popular and draws millions of viewers each evening. ...

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Best Price: $4.48 From the description on the back of the book, a reader might assume that "Flyboys" is...	Dreadnought Best Price: $11.85 There's a "v" missing from Robert K. Massie's name. It should be Massive....	Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life Best Price: $29.99 Alison Weir has written a solid, workmanlike biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a figure of...	Road Song Best Price: $3.65 My father gave this book to me 6 years ago and and I reread it every few months. The true story...	Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Best Price: $5.29 The following is my review of the hardcover from the CNN website. "Walking With the...

Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, 135th Anniversary, 1867-2002 (Document / 107th Congress, 2d session) Best Price: $8.00 Contains a history of the committee and standing rules of the Senate relating to appropriations....	Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 Best Price: $58.70 16th edition. Includes biographies of each person who has served in the...	Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Bk. 3, October 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004 Best Price: $110.00	Abraham Lincoln at the National Archives and Records Administration Great Lakes Region (Chicago) : Celebrating 200 Years of an American Legend	Confessions Best Price: $72.87 There are three classes of support for Christian belief: the metaphysical, the historical, and...

The Letters (Oxford letters & memoirs) T.E.Lawrence is best known for his role in the 1916-18 Arab Revolt, recalled in David Lean's...	Medieval Technology and Social Change Best Price: $14.97 This is one of the classic works of medieval studies to emerge out of the past half century, and...	George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy Best Price: $8.70 One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on...	Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books) Best Price: $2.99 Although at times the essays in this do not always focus directly on Lincoln, in one he is...	Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet Best Price: $14.77 It is a sad fact that in these darkened times, the relationships between the world's...

At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA Best Price: $3.21 The "storm" metaphor seems to have almost unlimited applications to various...	Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 Best Price: $6.73 Although not being an American, I'm aware that there are many in the States who are not too...	Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life Best Price: $2.70 Kathleen Norris in her translation of "acedia" tells us that many of us have been...	Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir Best Price: $1.71 "Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir," by Joel Turnipseed, tells the story of a Marine...	Napoleon: A Life Best Price: $7.75 Paul Johnson has written an excellent short life of Napoleon, a man whose mind almost nobody...

Hitler Best Price: $8.08 Joachim Fest's book "Hitler" is a rare pleasure to read. His words create an...	Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President Best Price: $38.88 Professor Robert Dallek provides an incredible biography of one of the most complex presidents...	Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life Best Price: $6.04 Has slightly uneven feel, gripping and vivid in parts, cool and remote in others, but that...

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