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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
$31.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fascinating biography of the iconoclastic English woman who in Baghdad in 1921 drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. Gertrude Bell was one of Oxford University's early female students, an archaelogist, a linguist, photographer, inveterate writer of letters and the greatest woman mountaine ...Show more
Napoleon and Josephine - An Improbable Marriage by Evangeline Bruce
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser.
No rags to riches story can compare with that of Napoleon and Josephine, two outsiders who rose to become Emperor and Empress of the French Republic.Evangeline Bruce's joint biography embraces the lives not only of her two central figures, but of all the vital personalities of the Revolutionary era. To ...Show more
The Last Romantic by Hannah Pakula
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser.
The granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at 17 Marie married the Crown Prince of Roumania. Drawing upon the young queen's diaries and letters, this book describes her struggle to gain an independent footing in the male-dominated court of Roumania, her early years as one of th ...Show more
The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
$27.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Sebastian Haffner examines Hitler's lifespan, his performance, his successes, errors, intellectual misconceptions, crimes and, last but not least, his great betrayal of his nation, the Western world and human civilisation. 'What makes Haffner's book different is that it is not one more biography but an ...Show more
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