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Louis Fischer / The Life of Lenin (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock

Since there's never been a really good English biography of Lenin, the idea of doing something about it came more or less simultaneously to three authors. As soon as each heard the others were at work, the race to get published was on. Stefan Possony won it, but Authors Payne & Fischer were close behind.Each biography seems tailored to a specific audience. Robert Payne, a prolific & catholic writer, has produced a Book-of-the-Month selection aimed at romantics. Stefan Possony, political studies director at Stanford's Hoover Institution, will appeal most obviously to believers in conspiratorial views of history, since his research comes from police & foreign office files, ranging from Japan to France, covering mostly Lenin's life as a fugitive conspirator. On balance, Louis Fischer's is the best of the three. Fischer has devoted much of his long lifetime to the study of Russia (The Soviets in World Affairs; Russia, America & the World). He soberly weighs those episodes the other two biographers sometimes accept as fact, offering the pros & cons of each argument. For example, there's a genuine riddle about Lenin's racial background. Payne insists "there was not a drop of Russian blood" in Lenin, claiming his ancestry was German, Swedish & Chuvash, & that it shaped his personality. Without citing any evidence, Possony argues that the "evidence indicates" Lenin's grandfather "was born a Jew." Fischer places the responsibility where it belongs, on the Soviet government. "The records were undoubtedly available in Russia's bulging archives, but the Bolsheviks saw fit to suppress them. This feeds the suspicion that there is something to conceal."What emerges most strikingly from all three biographies is the awesome power of a singleminded man to change the course of history. If the Kaiser had refused to let Lenin cross wartime Germany & enter Russia, if Kerensky's government had succeeded in arresting &

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Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock

The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great HungerIreland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home, her family's land, their crops, everything. His dogs are always well fed, even as famine sets in. Upstairs in the Big House, where Nell is forbidden to enter, is Johnny Browning, newly arrived from England: the young nephew who will one day inherit it all. And as hunger and disease run rampant all around them, a spark of life and hope catches light when Nell and Johnny find each other. This is a love story, and the story of a people being torn apart. This is a powerful and unforgettable novel from the phenomenally talented Sarah Crossan.

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Talisman of Troy (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Charles Davis / God's Grace in History (Vintage Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Mitford Scandal (Book 3) by Jessica Fellowes (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Many Murders of Michael Malloy by Simon Read (Large Paperback) (April 2025) ✓ In Stock
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Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Land by Maggie O'Farrell (Large Paperback) (June 2026) ✓ In Stock
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An Enemy of the Crown by David Burke (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Isabel Allende / My Name Is Emilia del Valle (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Daughter Of Time : A gripping historical mystery ✓ In Stock
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Seek the Fair Land : The First Adventurous and Exciting Story in the Famous Irish Trilogy ✓ In Stock
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Longitude ✓ In Stock
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The Medieval Castles of Ireland ✓ In Stock
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Denis G Marnane( Editor) - Tipperary Historical Journal 2014 ✓ In Stock
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The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866 ~ A Belfast Panorama ✓ In Stock
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Mel Mermelstein - By Bread Alone : The Story of A4685 - A Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust - PB ✓ In Stock
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West ✓ In Stock
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Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald (Editor) - A Terrible Beauty : Poetry of 1916 - PB - BRAND NEW ✓ In Stock
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Colum Kenny - Myths and Lies of the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW ✓ In Stock
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Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940 - 1943; James Holland ✓ In Stock
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Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 ✓ In Stock
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Marcus Williams / Double Century : Cricket in the Times Volume Two 1935-1990 (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Patsy McGarry / Book of Jesus Reports XXX-XXXIII AD (The Irish Times) (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Strongbow : The Story of Richard and Aoife ✓ In Stock
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James Patterson The Munich Affair ✓ In Stock
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Peter Tremayne / Shroud for the Archbishop (Older Edition Small Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Eyewitness to War and Peace ✓ In Stock
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Snow by John Banville (PB) ✓ In Stock
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Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden ✓ In Stock
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The Three Musketeers; Alexandre Dumas ✓ In Stock
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Ken Follett Fall of Giants ✓ In Stock
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Catch-22; Joseph Heller ✓ In Stock
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Biography of James Hudson Taylor ✓ In Stock
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George V : Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Jean Plaidy / Daughters of Spain (Vintage Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Thomas Mullen / The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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A Wild & True Relation by Kim Sherwood (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Silk House; Kayte Nunn ✓ In Stock
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The Midnight News by Jo Baker ✓ In Stock
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Vatican II: Facing the Future ✓ In Stock
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Dermot A. Lane / Catholic Theology Facing the Future Historical Perspectives (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Thomas G. Wyckoff / Resurrection Day (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone (Outlander 9) by Diana Gabaldon (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Leslie Thomas / The Magic Army (Vintage Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Jane Borodale / The Book of Fires (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Gerard Donovan / Schopenhauer's Telescope (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 7th Revised Edition - 1981 ✓ In Stock
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Simon Winchester / The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary (Older Edition Small Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Guinness Girls – A Hint of Scandal : A truly captivating and page-turning story of the famous society girls ✓ In Stock
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Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's most Notorious Minister; Robert Hutchinson ✓ In Stock
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Christopher Hudson - The Killing Fields ( Vintage Pan Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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The Children of Croke Park : Bloody Sunday 1920 by Michael Foley (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Peter Scholl-Latour / Eyewitness Vietnam (Large Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Elizabeth Lord / For All the Bright Promise (Older Edition Small Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Holly Webb A Girl's Guide To Spying ✓ In Stock
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Gulag : A History of the Soviet Camps ✓ In Stock
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