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A Very Private Celebrity: The Nine Lives of John Freeman
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Product Description: John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century; an achiever and thrower-away of high office after high office; a celebrity who sought anonymity. In the 1940s he was a war hero, then an MP who reduced Churchill to tears...read more
By Hugh Purcell
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9781849548618 | Gardners Books, July 1, 2015, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century; an achiever and thrower-away of high office after high office; a celebrity who sought anonymity.

We're Going On!: The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham
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The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham.
By Hugh Purcell (editor)
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9780955106101 | Dufour Editions, September 15, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham.

The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949
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Product Description: “Spain woke me up politically. I rediscovered democracy, the power that can come from people working together when a popular front is not just a manoeuvre but a reality.” Drawing on his political and fighting experience in the Spanish Civil War, Tom Wintringham wrote the best-seller New Ways of War – a do-it-yourself guide to killing people – but also a highly subversive call for a socialist revolution...read more
By Hugh Purcell and Phyll Smith
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9781845194482 | Enl rev up edition (Sussex Academic Pr, May 7, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: “Spain woke me up politically.

Maharajah of Bikaner, India: The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath
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Product Description: The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, Ganga Singh commanded his own camel corps called the Ganga Risala, fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army and persuaded the maharajas to unite into the Chamber of Princes...read more
By Hugh Purcell
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9781905791804 | Haus Pub, December 14, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, Ganga Singh commanded his own camel corps called the Ganga Risala, fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army and persuaded the maharajas to unite into the Chamber of Princes.

After the Raj: The Last Stayers-On and the Legacy of British India
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Product Description: As August 1947 approached the British prepared to leave India. While the vast majority of the British left, some stayed on and others who had grown up in India shortly returned. Over the next 60 years they adapted to modern India while always being conscious of their legacy, the inheritance of the Raj...read more
By Hugh Purcell
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9780750947862 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 2008, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: As August 1947 approached the British prepared to leave India.

Lloyd George
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By Hugh Purcell
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9781904950585 | Haus Pub, November 6, 2006, cover price $16.95

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