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How the sale of a Leonardo Da Vinci painting for US$500milion ended up financing Donald Trump's election campaign through a Florida piece of real estate.

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Few military organisations speak more to our dark imagination than the Wagner Group, a savage private mercenary group dedicated to committing war crimes as well as the challengers of the Kremlin on 23-24 June, 2023.From its inception in 2014 this nebulous organisation operating from Russia was intentionally cloaked in questions. How was it able to operate alongside Russia's top government officials? How could it deploy the logistical systems o...

A timely return of this Everest classic autobiography on the 70th anniversary of climbing Everest for the first time together with Sir Edmund Hillary.

The first comprehensive history of Russia seen through its secret services from 1917-2036 (the end of Putin's term in office as Russia's President).

A unique and gripping adventure story that set the world alight, set in a time when technology was in its infancy and expeditions could not rely on rescue missions to save their lives.

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Diana Mitford's gripping autobiography: both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler adored her, and Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, yet she spent WWII in Holloway prison.

This is the story of a beautiful, lifelong friendship of laughter that centred around the Villa Marchio near Lucca, Tuscany, where John Fleming and Hugh Honour, both art historians and the last great British eccentrics, had created the perfect life for themselves. They first met Susanna Johnston, their quirky neighbour-to-be, at Oris Origo's villa set on a rocky promontory in Lerici when we she was down and out looking for a job as a teenager....

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Spares Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have rarely been out of the news since 2019. They both have proved to have a rare knack for creating a royal soap opera and turning their humdrum lives into an embarrassment to their family.Royal author Nigel Cawthorne unravels their princely lives in this dual portrait and asks (and answers) who is likely the most spare of them all. Join this frank celebration of royal pain from wives, money, relatives, h...

How 10 minutes can change the course of history... In May 1982, eight young officers of the Welsh Guards-whose colonel-in-chief is the King-found themselves despatched at short notice to fight 8000 miles away in the Falklands. Until now, no one has told their story which included the fiercest attack on British troops since World War II when Britain lost half a battalion and the Argentine air force successfully bombed four navy ships at the t...

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The bestselling history of the rise of modern terrorism prompted by the Saudi royal family's entanglement with the Bush family. Updated paperback edition.

Six years after the death of Napoleon, Sir Walter Scott wrote the first, hugely successful biography of Napoleon that riveted Britain and the continent and led to him being challenged to a duel by former Napoleon generals. It was probably the first book ever to be extracted in a newspaper. Scott's bracing but fair portrait of his contemporary inspired a new wave of historians to engage with history in a way that we now recognise as modern. Ori...