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Facts are Subversive
Timothy Garton Ash

For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has travelled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. This collection of his writings since the millennium addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the present on a scale by turns panoramic and human: urgent, exhilarating and necessary.

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Back from the Brink
Peter Snowdon

Lifting the lid on the most captivating story in British politics today, this charts the Conservative Party's remarkable journey from the political wilderness to the threshold of power. Based on unprecedented access to key figures in the Conservative party, including every leader from John Major to David Cameron, political journalist Peter Snowdon sheds new light on the dramatic decline and renaissance of the party that dominated 20th century British politics. Packed full of fresh insights into what really goes on behind closed doors at Westminster, the book exposes the bitter rivalries and recriminations that have blighted the Conservatives in Opposition, and gets to the heart of Cameron's quest for power and ambitions for office.

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Dancing to the Precipice
Caroline Moorehead

Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule, Lucie survived extraordinary times with great spirit. She recorded people, politics and intrigue, alongside the intriguing minutia of everyday life: food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes. Caroline Moorehead's richly novelistic biography sets Lucy and her dairies in their wider context, illuminating a remarkable period of history.

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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Frances Stonor Saunders

7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raised her old revolver and fired at the Italian head of state. What brought her to that moment? The daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, she had once consorted with royalty and the peerage. Yet she was a serious-minded young woman in an age when girls were meant to marry well and think little. Her spiritual quest took her to a kind of left-wing Catholicism, sympathy for Irish nationalism and a passionate love for Italy. When Mussolini's thugs took it into the moral cesspit of Fascism, she felt she had to act. She paid for it for the rest of her life, confined to a lunatic asylum, like other difficult women of her class. Frances Stonor Saunders' moving and compulsively readable book rescues this gentle, driven woman from a silent void and restores her dignity and purpose.

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Katherine the Queen
Linda Porter

The general perception of Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions. Yet she was attractive, passionate, ambitious and highly intelligent. Twice widowed, held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536-37, her life had been dramatic even before she became queen. It would remain so after Henry's death, when she hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour. She died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548. Despite the vivid interest of her life, this is the first full-scale, accessible biography of this fascinating woman who was one of the most influential and active queen consorts in English history.

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