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1.A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World WarsA Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
from Oxford University Press, USA
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2.The Queen Mother: The Official BiographyThe Queen Mother: The Official Biography
from Knopf
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Eventhough with the majority of biographies you always know the ending, I still cried a little at William Shawcross's description of the Queen Mother's funeral in the final pages of his fascinating book on her life.
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3.The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
from Pantheon
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I loved this book. For me it captured some sense of the transition from "natural philosophy" (thinking about and speculating about nature) to science (making careful observations and weaving those observations into theories of nature). I loved how Richard Holmes brought some of the people involved... more info

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4.Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
from Knopf
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Once again Christopher Andrew has written the quintessential history of intelligence and in this case 20th century British internal intelligence & security. What remains to be done is the 19th century history of British intelligence from the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and Victorian... more info

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5.Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its AftermathTears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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This is a great historical book concerning the Bataan Death March and the hardships endured by US POW in the Phillipines during WWII.

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6.The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the AtomThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
from Basic Books
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Graham Farmelo's biography of Dirac is a grand accomplishment--a fascinating account of a brilliant physicist who said practically nothing about himself. While many biographers rely on extensive records of personal reflections by the subjects themselves to piece together their chronicles, Dirac was... more info

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7.EnduranceEndurance
from Blackstone Audio Inc.

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"ENDURANCE", what a tale. It is hard to imagine a modern group of men from the civilized world enduring such an adventure. Surrounded by all our modern technology, modern civilized man is probably not capable of "enduring" such a physical and mental epic. Modern technology would not allow the... more info

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8.1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C)1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C)
from Yale University Press
Price: $26.40

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A superb history of one of the foundation events upon which the modern Western/liberal state was built.
Professor Pincus brings broad and deep scholarship to this book, which, in turn, provides impressive value to the serious reader.
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9.For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their RevolutionsFor Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions
from Tantor Media
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This is excellent history demonstrating the friendship of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette as well as the connections between the American and French Revolutions.
Gaines shows us how much the French Revolution was a result--primarily economic--of the American and the book flows... more info

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10.ChurchillChurchill
from Viking Adult
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A hagiography written from the commanding conservative heights: Winston Churchill, a man of action and character, enjoyed a highly interesting and long life, both public and private, with but a few policy missteps along the way. The unlikely saving of Great Britain in World War II was this great... more info

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