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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Arthur Herman · 736 pages
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain's most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India
Joseph Lelyveld · 452 pages
Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld, the former executive editor of The New York Times, will visit us to discuss his acclaimed new book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India. This stirring book deepens our sense of Gandhi’s accomplishments and disappointments while examining the man as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations who oversaw a profound social and political t
Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
Vinay Sitapati
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence
Jaswant Singh · 669 pages
Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1876-1948, statesman and founder of Pakistan.
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography
Andy Marino · 351 pages
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand · 432 pages
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World
Eknath Easwaran · 213 pages
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
Katherine Frank · 567 pages
Chronicles the life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, providing information on her relationship with her father, her role as India's third prime minister, her assassination by her own bodyguards, and other related topics.
1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
Sanjaya Baru · 216 pages
Political biography of P.V. Narasimha Rao, 1921-2004, former prime minister of India.
Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha · 672 pages
A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa. "In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish him
Napoleon: A Biography
Frank McLynn · 744 pages
Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and historians. In this compelling biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men -- as military leader, emperor, and lover. Tracing Napoleon's extraordinary career, the author examines the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the year
Ho Chi Minh: A Life
William J. Duiker · 695 pages
"This book chronicles Ho's childhood as the son of a willfully poor and brilliant scholar. It follows Ho through his early years as an itinerant expatriate - forced to leave French Indochina to escape arrest, he shipped out as a cook on a passenger steamer and traveled the globe. It tells of his years in the heady environment of London and Paris during and after World War I, where he supported hi
Atatürk: The Rebirth Of A Nation
John Patrick Douglas Balfour · 560 pages
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Kate Evans · 220 pages
"A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an inc
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Edvard Radzinsky, Edvard Radzinskii · 471 pages
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Philip Short · 550 pages
"The man the world knew as Pol Pot headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times. An idealistic reclusive figure of great charisma and personal charm, he initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. In the process, his country descended into madness and his name became a byword for sanguinary oppression. During the three-and-a-half ye
Cromwell
Antonia Fraser · 774 pages
From the Author's Note... To write the biography of Oliver Cromwell is admittedly an ambitious undertaking. In view of the wonderful wealth of material on the subject in existence, to say nothing of the living giants of seventeenth-century research who stalk the land, I hope it may not also seem presumptuous. My aim has however been a different one from that of the scholars from whose works I h
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin · 1,184 pages
"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly domin
The Shah
Abbas Milani · 488 pages
An Iranian scholar chronicles the life and legacy of the last Shah of Iran, including his role in the creation of the modern Islamic republic.
Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey
Andrew Mango · 602 pages
"In this new biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first to appear in English based on Turkish sources, Andrew Mango strips away the myth to show the complexities of one of the most visionary, influential, and enigmatic statesmen of the century - his high ideals and ruthless tactics, his championship of women's rights and his inability to sustain an equal relationship with women, his nationalism