Tempestuous Genius: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher

No man ever made his mark on the British Navy the way that Lord Fisher did. While many of his contemporaries considered

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Includes 12 illustrations The name of Horatio Nelson still rings across the United Kingdom, and further afield, as a gre

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Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major

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Nelson admired him. Marie-Antoinette counted him among France’s national heroes. The exiled Napoleon sighed for what mig

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This is the first time in paperback for this standard biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who was the controversi

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A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid—and brilliant—Carrie Fisher In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like U

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In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still

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