Biography

Thomas Hardy


by Tim Dolin

Thomas Hardy is best known for his 'Wessex Novels', and his home country of Dorset is known to literary tourists as 'Hardy Country'. Yet Hardy's own relationship with his background was a complex one.

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Bismarck

The Iron Chancellor
by Volker Ullrich & Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in the history as 'Iron Chancellor', a reactionary and a militarist whose unification of Germany in 1871 set Europe on the road to the disaster of the First World War. Yet as this comprehensive study shows, the real Bismarck was a much more complicated figure than this traditional stereotype suggests.

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Rosa Luxemburg


by Harry Harmer

In a world in which capitalism is presented as all that exists, the writer, speaker and agitator Rosa Luxemburg - murdered in Berlin by an unholy alliance of Right and Left in 1919 - is the last heroine of revolutionary socialism. Did Luxemburg, a contemporary of Lenin and Trotsky, offer a genuine alternative, a libertarian and democratic socialism that might have saved the 20th century from scourges of depression, dictatorship and war? Or was she the lifelong victim of an illusion, a misreading of history that led her inexorably to a bloody death? This biography takes a fresh view, re-examining Luxemburg's tempestuous career and complex personal life, posing new questions about her politics and her dream of socialism.

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Patrice Lumumba

Africa's Lost Leader
by Leo Zeilig

Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his murder in 1961 he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle.

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Captain John Smith

And His Brave Adventures
by R E Pritchard

Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas. However this was only one small part in a life that was filled with extraordinary adventures.

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