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(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Boards badly faded and marked.Stamp on endpaper,text unmarked. Born in India the family returned to the uk on the outbreak of the 2nd Afghan war, the author lived in Switzerland, England Germany and Italy before returning to India in 1900 where she married. Returning to England at the start of the First world… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Brigadier Alastair 'Jock' Pearson DSO and 3 Bars, MC. A remarkable record of a Second World War Parachute Regiment Officer who commanded a battalion at the age of 27. A legendary figure within The Parachute Regiment, Alistair Pearson is regarded by many as one of its finest battalion commanders. By the age of… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Baird was one of the most able military commanders in India at the time of Wellesley's Governorship. His experiences included incarceration as a POW for 4 years, the campaign and battle of Seringapatam, his campaign in Egypt 1801-2, the capture of the Cape of Good Hope 1805, and the Corunna Campaign 1808-9 where… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) This third volume in Han Suyin's autobiography covers the years between 1938 and 1948, which were dominated politically by the Japanese invasion and the decline of Chiang Kaishek's power. Ex library with dewey number on spine and title page. Date label removed from back endpaper. No obvious marks. (Published: 1968) (Publisher: Jonathan Cape)… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Part of Marguerite Duras's autobiography with two wartime stories conveying life in Paris in the summer of 1944 and the late spring of 1945. (Published: 1986) (Publisher: Flamingo) (ISBN: 0006542255) (Pagination: 183pp) (Condition: Good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Well used but unmarked. Useful study copy. A biography of General Joseph W. Stilwell and a study of American - Sino relations between the fall of the Manchu Empire after the 1911 Revolution, and the rise of Mao Tse-Tung in the 1940s. Stilwell loved China and served there during the… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Covers creased. Signs of use but text unmarked. The three most powerful leaders of the Second World War and their rise to power and their leadership, in the case of Stalin and Roosevelt, in the 1930s while Churchill was in the wilderness. The three only met twice at Yalta and… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Signs of use but unmarked. Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933, the founder of the Fascist Movement in England (Published: 1983) (Publisher: Fontana) (ISBN: 0006366449) (Pagination: 274pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) A political biography of Benito Mussolini. (Published: 1983) (Publisher: Granada Publishing) (ISBN: 0586084444) (Pagination: 495pp illustrations) (Condition: Very good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Creasing on bottom right hand corner. Good. Stalin was the overlord of the Gulag, the assassin of both Lenin and Trotsky, and a megalomaniac tyrant over millions. The result of 35 years scholarship, Robert McNeal's biography focuses on the cult of personality surrounding Stalin. (Published: 1989) (Publisher: Papermac) (ISBN: 0333373529) (Pagination: 389pp, 14… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Covers slightly creased.Pages browning. The campaign of the 21st Army Group from the breakout in Normandy to the end of the Second World War in Germany. The chapters on the Ardennes are particularly revealing. Also Montgomery as Military Governor in Germany, CIGS, the Commanding General of the Western Union and… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Covers, creased, pages browning. Useful study copy.The first volume of the full official biography of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. This volume includes his WWI service, his experiences in Ireland, France and Belgium 1939-40 commanding the 3rd Division and at Dunkirk, front line commander against the German invasion threat, his transfer… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback.Good. The author was the wife of a professor at Hamburg University. When war came all contacts with four of her five children who were suddenly in enemy countries was severed. She kept a diary for them, thinking that she would not survive. (Published: 1982) (Publisher: Pan Books) (ISBN: 0330261304) (Pagination:… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) International affairs in the 1930s by Anthony Eden, one of the leading participants in the pre-war years. These include the rise of Hitler and the experiences of the author in dealing with Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, the war in Abyssinia and Japanese aggression in the Far East. (Published: 1962) (Publisher: Cassell) (Pagination: xviii… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Compiled from diaries and letters, edited by his wife, after his death in December 1945, these are General Patton's contemporary views and recollections of his campaigns and battles in North Africa, Sicily, France, The Ardennes and Germany. No date but c1948. Red boards with a Boots Library sticker on the front board. Further… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) French text. Préface de Madame Leclerc de Hauteclocque. Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque was a Free-French general during the Second World War. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc. Card covers browning and marked. Creasing on corners and… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Pages browning. Good. The story of Wiesenthal's lifelong struggle for justice. It tells of Mengele's trail of faked deaths, the pursuit of Eichmann. the successful identification of war criminals and ex Nazis camouflaged by powerful positions in police and judiciary and the discovery of ODESSA the escape organisation. (Published: 1989)… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Pages browning but very good. The life of Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. A legend in his lifetime and revered by his men, the 'Auk' was the inspiration of the Commonwealth troops from Tobruk to Burma during the Second World War. He rose from Indian Army Subaltern stalking the Pathan to… Read more about this item

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Mass market paperback. Pages browning. The biography Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, DSO, DFC. One of the outstanding bomber pilots of RAF Bomber Command in WWII. Cheshire was an official British observer of the Atomic attack on Hiroshima. (Published: 1966) (Publisher: Arrow Books) (Pagination: 217pp, 34 ills) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX