Biography

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

For more than two years, the Frank family lived like ghosts in a cramped set of rooms at the back of an office building in Amsterdam. The diary Anne Frank kept of her time in hiding still captivates the world.

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Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin was an unrivalled polymath and the intellectual architect of many revolutionary ideas, yet he started his career as a runaway with a few coins in his pocket. This acclaimed biography is part of a Folio collection of America's Founding Fathers.

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Thomas Jefferson

R. B. Bernstein

In examining the many-faceted character of Thomas Jefferson – farmer, inventor, natural historian, architect, brilliant lawyer and politician – Pulitzer-Prize-nominated historian, R. B. Bernstein reveals the complexity and passion of the author of the Declaration of Independence.

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George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

George Washington, commander-in-chief of the army and America's first president, remains the most celebrated figure in the pantheon of the American Revolution. Ellis’s aim was to create ‘not another epic, but rather a fresh portrait’. The result is a landmark work.

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If This is a Man

Primo Levi

On arriving at Auschwitz in February 1944, more than 500 of his fellow deportees were sent straight to the gas chambers. Survivor Primo Levi was one of the 'lucky' ones. In this heart-breaking and searing memoir he tells his story.

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Lives of the Later Caesars

In the spring of AD 218 the self-appointed last descendant of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius ascended the imperial throne of Rome, so elevating to dominion over the known world the most extravagant and hedonistic ruler ever seen.

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Napoleon

Georges Lefebvre

Whether viewed as an inspired leader or obsessed tyrant, few individuals have left such a mark on history as Napoleon. Georges Lefebvre’s classic work, published here in a single volume in English for the first time, is a definitive portrait of the Napoleonic era.

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