General Hastings "Pug" Ismay
Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography
ISBN: HB: 9781911723202,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2024
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 28 illus.
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 28 illus.
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A biography of the unsung general at Churchill's side throughout the Second World War, instrumental in events from Indian and Pakistani independence to the establishment of NATO.
General Lord Ismay's name is little known toda...
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Saffron "Modernity" in India
Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in th...
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Prison Diaries
The Rebel Who Founded a Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781787383999,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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An unflinching account of life in a Pakistani prison by a founding leader and the first elected prime minister of Bangladesh.
Born in 1920, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman studied law. One of the founders of the Awami League in 1949, he...
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Girl Prince
Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax
ISBN: HB: 9781805260066,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2023
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 illus.
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A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy.
In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blacken...
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Iconoclast
Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
ISBN: PB: 9781805260370,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383104,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2023
504 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
504 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A revealing profile of Japan's longest-serving prime minister and his controversial legacy.
Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned aft...
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Fugitive of Empire
Rash Behari Bose, Japan and the Indian Independence Struggle
ISBN: HB: 9781805260424,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2023
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 20 illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 20 illus.
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A lively biography of an important Indian revolutionary, from his attempted assassination of the Viceroy to his anti-imperialist activities in exile.
In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colon...
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Daughter of the Agunmukha
ISBN: HB: 9781805260608,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2023
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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How does a girl from a tiny Bangladeshi island end up reading Tagore, Marx and de Beauvoir and become a leading feminist campaigner?
This is the riveting personal story of Noorjahan Bose, born in 1938 in present-day Bangladesh...
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Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
A Life in Geopolitics
ISBN: HB: 9781787389373,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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An award-winning critical biography of Finland's towering leader, charting his statecraft, his political journey and his strategic bravado, carving out independence between Stalin and Hitler.
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf...
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£25.00
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Duce: The Contradictions of Power
The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini
ISBN: HB: 9781787389533,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
400 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
400 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A compelling reinterpretation of the authority and ideology of the much-mythologised Mussolini, weighing his successes and failings in government.
Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what...
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£30.00
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House of Jaipur
The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family
ISBN: PB: 9781787389595,
ISBN: HB: 9781787385566,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus.
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The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and "Dickie" Mountbatten, ent...
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£15.99
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£25.00
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