Imperial Warrior: The life and times of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby 1861-1936

‘Bull’ Allenby, a cavalryman with a massive frame and ferocious temper, was the general who liberated Jerusalem in Decem

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Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, is an interesting and controversial figure of the late Georgian and early Victorian Brit

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Archibald Wavell was born a few years before Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and died shortly after the end of the

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Major Dhyanchand's name is synonymous with Indian hockey. The great hockey player was born on 29th August; 1905 in

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This is a vivid account of what their gods meant to the Romans from archaic times to late antiquity, and of the rites an

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This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Re

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'Life and Times of Mr S' worked for me like magic. It unsettled my notion of what was real, what possible, and

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'A genuinely fascinating book, the best kind of popular history' Literary Review This first, and some would

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