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Mrs Kennedy (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed): Leaming Mrs Kennedy (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed)
Leaming
R498 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing from recently declassified top-secret material, as well as revelatory eyewitness accounts, Secret Service records, and Jacqueline Kennedy's personal letters, bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming answers the question: what was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Brilliantly researched, Leaming's poignant and powerful chronicle illuminates the tumultuous day-to-day life of a woman who entered the White House at age thirty-one, seven years into a complex and troubled marriage, and left at thirty-four after her husband's assassination. Revealing the full story of the interplay of sex and politics in Washington, Mrs. Kennedy will indelibly challenge our vision of this fascinating woman, and bring a new perspective to her crucial role in the Kennedy presidency.

To the Fire of Normandy and Beyond - Behind Enemy Lines During World War II (Hardcover): Frank Kozol To the Fire of Normandy and Beyond - Behind Enemy Lines During World War II (Hardcover)
Frank Kozol
R887 R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Save R134 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Blood of Lambs (Paperback): Kamal Saleem, Lynn Vincent The Blood of Lambs (Paperback)
Kamal Saleem, Lynn Vincent
R507 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Face You'll Ever See - The Culture of Death Row (Paperback): Ivan Solotaroff The Last Face You'll Ever See - The Culture of Death Row (Paperback)
Ivan Solotaroff
R392 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these men and of those they have to put to death, The Last Face You'll Ever See also addresses some of the deeper issues of the death penalty and connects the veiled, elusive figure of the executioner to the vast majority of Americans who, since 1977, have claimed to support executions. Why do we do it? Or, more exactly, why do we want to?

The Last Face You'll Ever See is not about the polarizing issues of the death penalty -- it is a firsthand report about the culture of executions: the executioners, the death-row inmates, and everyone involved in the act. An engrossing, unsettling, and provocative book, this work will forever affect anyone who reads it.

Star of the Morning - The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope (Hardcover): Kirsten Ellis Star of the Morning - The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope (Hardcover)
Kirsten Ellis
R1,069 R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Save R286 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shackleton (Paperback): Ranulph Fiennes Shackleton (Paperback)
Ranulph Fiennes
R550 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R79 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
First Wave (Paperback): Kenneth James Stuart Ballantyne First Wave (Paperback)
Kenneth James Stuart Ballantyne
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Elizabeth - Renaissance Prince (Paperback): Lisa Hilton Elizabeth - Renaissance Prince (Paperback)
Lisa Hilton
R627 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R115 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Duchess Countess - The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London (Paperback): Catherine Ostler The Duchess Countess - The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London (Paperback)
Catherine Ostler
R543 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - A Biography (Paperback): Edward Rice Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - A Biography (Paperback)
Edward Rice
R811 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R120 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "New York Times" best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile; to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina; and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of "Arabian Nights"), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the man himself.

The Long Garden Master in the Gold Coast - Life and Times of a Colonial Agricultural Officer in the Gold Coast, 1929-1947... The Long Garden Master in the Gold Coast - Life and Times of a Colonial Agricultural Officer in the Gold Coast, 1929-1947 (Paperback)
Charles Lynn, Marjorie Lynn, Sylvia Lynn
R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Too Much And Never Enough - How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man (Hardcover): Mary L. Trump Too Much And Never Enough - How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man (Hardcover)
Mary L. Trump
R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 In Stock

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A first-hand witness, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humour to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald's place in the family spotlight and Ivana's penchant for regifting to her grandmother's frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favourite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists and journalists have sought to explain Donald Trump's lethal flaws. Mary Trump has the education, insight and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick.

She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider's perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world's most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Charlie Mike - A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home (Paperback): Joe Klein Charlie Mike - A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home (Paperback)
Joe Klein
R476 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
All the Things You are (Paperback): Kenneth James Stuart Ballantyne All the Things You are (Paperback)
Kenneth James Stuart Ballantyne
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Gulag Archipelago - (Abridged edition) (Paperback): Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago - (Abridged edition) (Paperback)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Introduction by Jordan Peterson 2
R350 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R70 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. 'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III

Evelyn Waugh - A Life Revisited (Paperback): Philip Eade Evelyn Waugh - A Life Revisited (Paperback)
Philip Eade
R610 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R95 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cynic - The Political Education of Mitch McConnell (Paperback): Alec Macgillis The Cynic - The Political Education of Mitch McConnell (Paperback)
Alec Macgillis
R397 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Back To The Front - A Memoir (Paperback): Leon Levy Back To The Front - A Memoir (Paperback)
Leon Levy
R265 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R58 (22%) In Stock

Leon and his twin Norman were born in August 1929, the youngest of four children born to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. His father died when Leon was six; to heroic degree, his mother carried the family – financially, practically and emotionally – in her widowhood. Leon was an intensely bookish boy but left school aged sixteen to help makes ends meet through a series of jobs. Deeply affected by the events of the Second World War and the Holocaust, Leon was radicalised in the Hashomer Hatza’ir, a left-wing Zionist youth movement. He was seventeen when he joined the Communist Party and became a committed young activist.

In 1953, at the age of twenty-four, Leon became a full-time trade unionist. ‘It was a defining moment in my life story,’ he writes. ‘It gave practical form to my political beliefs; it also determined the shape and scope of my life. It transpired that I would spend the next six decades and more working in trade unions, industrial relations and mediation.’

A comrade in the trade union movement nicknamed Leon, TsabaTsaba – which means “here, there and everywhere”. Anyone who reads Leon’s account of his years as a full-time unionist will agree that the soubriquet was well earned. (Alongside trade union work, Leon was also committed to the remarkable Discussion Club, which he co-founded and ran throughout the 1950s; he was also secretary of the South African Peace Council from 1951 to 1961.) In the mid-1950s, he was part of a small group of progressive trade unionists who pushed for the formation of the first non-racial trade union federation in South Africa. These aspirations were realised in March 1955 with the launch of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). Later that year Leon was elected president and remained in that position for nine years. SACTU linked day-to-day concerns of workers with support for national liberation and the abolition of apartheid and was one of the five organisations which formed the Congress Alliance. As SACTU leader, Leon served on the committee that directed the activities of the Alliance; he was present at Kliptown when the Freedom Charter was adopted – and as SACTU president was one of the five original signatories of the Freedom Charter.

Political activism of this order came at a high price. Leon Levy was served with banning orders and arrested several times; he was Accused No 4 of the 156 people arrested and charged with treason, and from November 1958 was one of the final 30 (and with Helen Joseph one of only two whites) who faced charges until the trial was finally dismissed in March 1961. He was detained for five months during the 1960 State of Emergency. In May 1963 he was the first person to be detained under the notorious General Laws Amendment Act, known as the 90-day Act. Unable to continue his work he chose to go into exile in the United Kingdom. There, he studied politics, economics and industrial relations at Oxford – and then applied what he had learned in a series of positions in industrial relations. After 1994, he was determined to make the skills and knowledge that he had acquired available to a democratic South Africa – and he and his wife Lorna returned to the country of their birth in 1997. In a remarkable final phase of his career, Leon took office shortly after his 70th birthday as a full-time commissioner for the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration – and spent the next 19 years in this capacity.

Age Shall Not Weary Them - 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (Paperback): Roy Rees Age Shall Not Weary Them - 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (Paperback)
Roy Rees
R393 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. A personal memoir of the highs and the lows following Roy Rees during World War Two, his pre-war training and activities through to eventual retirement from the Army in 1946.

Haldane - The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain (Paperback): John Campbell Haldane - The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain (Paperback)
John Campbell
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick' universities and the Medical Research Council? This book reveals that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence, education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his time-the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in 1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal government, unjustly vilified as a German sympathiser. John Campbell charts these ups and downs, reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his enormous relevance in our search for just societies today. Amidst political and national instability, it is time to reinstate Haldane as Britain's outstanding example of true statesmanship. A Sunday Times Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year, 2020. A Telegraph Best Book of the Year, 2020.

Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type /... Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Nicholas Reynolds
R768 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R121 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) - "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) - "CAPTIVATING" (Missourian) A riveting international cloak-and-dagger epic ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Western Europe, wartime China, the Red Scare of Cold War America, and the Cuban Revolution, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures in espionage and intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s (including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo"), a hidden chapter that fueled both his art and his undoing. While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was deeply involved in mid-twentieth-century spycraft -- a mysterious and shocking relationship that was far more complex, sustained, and fraught with risks than has ever been previously supposed. Now Reynolds's meticulously researched and captivating narrative "looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before" (London Review of Books), revealing for the first time the whole story of this hidden side of Hemingway's life: his troubling recruitment by Soviet spies to work with the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, followed in short order by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies. Starting with Hemingway's sympathy to antifascist forces during the 1930s, Reynolds illuminates Hemingway's immersion in the life-and-death world of the revolutionary left, from his passionate commitment to the Spanish Republic; his successful pursuit by Soviet NKVD agents, who valued Hemingway's influence, access, and mobility; his wartime meeting in East Asia with communist leader Chou En-Lai, the future premier of the People's Republic of China; and finally to his undercover involvement with Cuban rebels in the late 1950s and his sympathy for Fidel Castro. Reynolds equally explores Hemingway's participation in various roles as an agent for the United States government, including hunting Nazi submarines with ONI-supplied munitions in the Caribbean on his boat, Pilar; his command of an informant ring in Cuba called the "Crook Factory" that reported to the American embassy in Havana; and his on-the-ground role in Europe, where he helped OSS gain key tactical intelligence for the liberation of Paris and fought alongside the U.S. infantry in the bloody endgame of World War II. As he examines the links between Hemingway's work as an operative and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway's secret adventures influenced his literary output and contributed to the writer's block and mental decline (including paranoia) that plagued him during the postwar years -- a period marked by the Red Scare and McCarthy hearings. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences played a role in some of Hemingway's greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, while also adding to the burden that he carried at the end of his life and perhaps contributing to his suicide. A literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work, and fate of one of America's most legendary authors.

James Garfield and the Civil War - For Ohio and the Union (Paperback): Daniel J Vermilya James Garfield and the Civil War - For Ohio and the Union (Paperback)
Daniel J Vermilya
R704 R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Save R107 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Hardcover): Neil Churches The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Hardcover)
Neil Churches
R623 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these three men came together - along with the partisans - to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches' son Neil, takes us from Ralph and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.

Payback - Five Marines After Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue ed.): Joe Klein Payback - Five Marines After Vietnam (Paperback, Reissue ed.)
Joe Klein
R457 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Saddam's Secrets - How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein (Paperback): Georges Hormuz Sada Saddam's Secrets - How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein (Paperback)
Georges Hormuz Sada
R384 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R92 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Georges Sada was one of Saddam's top generals and foremost military advisors. A truth-teller in a government that made the truth dangerous. A devout Christian in a Muslim country. And a man who would stand up for what was right―even at the risk of his own life.

In this eye-opening expose, General Sada shares his bizarre yet amazing journey as an insider to one of history's most sinister regimes. He also, for the first time, reveals the disturbing truth about Saddam's plots to destroy Israel, hide weapons of mass destruction and overtake the Arab world. As an eye witness to history, Sada paints a painfully truthful picture of Hussein and his country that is at once personal and alarming, truthful and compelling, candid and sobering. It is a story guaranteed to send shock waves around the world.

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