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Language
English
Description
A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
Author
Series
Divine cities volume 3
Language
English
Description
After the assassination of his former friend and ally, Prime Minister Shara Komayd, fugitive and exile Sigrud je Harvaldsson sets out on a mission of revenge.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the United States--before returning to their cherished homeland....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider - a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany - who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Biographer Kati Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. Famously private, the Angela Merkel who emerges in The Chancellor is a role model for anyone interested in gaining...
Author
Language
English
Description
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. In The...
7) Golda Meir
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Presents the biography of Golda Meir against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 859 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Presents the biography of Benazir Bhutto against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment."-Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.
15) Indira Gandhi
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1980]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
18) Remote control
Author
Publisher
Kodansha International
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Aoyagi, a former delivery-truck driver in the city of Sendai is unemployed-- and now he's the main suspect in the assassination of a newly elected prime minister. As Aoyagi runs, he must negotiate trigger-happy law enforcement while trying discover why he was set up and who is responsible.
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