David A. Macpherson & Roger W. Spencer 
Lives of the Laureates, seventh edition [EPUB ebook] 

Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in p …

A novel chronicle that speaks of cruelty and torture in Uzbekistan. …

A new comprehensive biography of this hugely important Christian martyr, 60 years after his execution at the hands of the Nazis Bonhoeffer has gained a position as one of the most prominent Christian …

This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betra …

Sabiha Sertel was born into revolution in 1895, as an independent Turkey rose out of the dying Ottoman Empire. The nation»s first professional female journalist, her unrelenting push for democracy a …

‘Funny and brutal. A big-hearted book, I enjoyed it.’ Stuart Conquest, Grandmaster’Carl is gifted as both a natural entertainer and storyteller. Although this memoir is primarily about chess, the tal …

First published in 1949, The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths, which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by, but which churches and …

As the title shows, it has two main subjects: WWII and Potters Bar — which is my hometown, almost but not quite a suburb of London. The global public already has extensive knowledge of WWII, yet the …