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Hillary Rodham Clintons inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as Americas 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.All of us face hard choices in our lives, Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted.Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harms way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day.Secretary Clintons descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use smart power to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing worldone in which America remains the indispensable nation.

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A lasting work of social history THE TIMES A genuinely new history of our nation DAN JONES This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history SPECTATOR Philippa Gregory uses all her bestseller skills to weave a narrative with pace ANTONIA FRASERFROM THE MULTI MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE S WORKDid you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry That the Peasant s Revolt was started and propelled by women protesting a tax on women Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they d evolve to become ever more inferior These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory s Normal Women In this ambitious and ground breaking book she tells the story of our nation over 900 years but for the very first time women some fifty per cent of the population are no longer invisible in this history of England but are at its beating heart Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women beggars and shepherdesses through newspapers and diaries to find murder

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Exquisite a beautiful book one of the finest meditations on animal companionship that I have ever read Kathryn Hughes Guardian An instant New York Times bestseller this is an unforgettable story about love loss and redemption from a highly acclaimed writerCaleb Carr lived with cats ever since he was a young boy He grew up in a turbulent household where famous Beat poets artists and addicts came and went and his steadiest companions were pets Since then he had many feline companions with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones But only after building a three story home in rural upstate New York did he encounter someone extraordinary Masha a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten and was languishing in a shelter She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters but somehow she chose him For the seventeen years that followed Caleb and Masha were inseparable Masha ruled the house and the dangerous wilderness surrounding it When she was hurt only Caleb could help her When he suffered long standing physical ailments Masha knew what to do Caleb learned to decode much of Masha s inner life but their bond went far beyond owner and pet Inspiring heart breakin

To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie to Catherine the Great she was Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna granddaughter in law This is the story of Princess Juliane Henriette Ulrike of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld the Rebel Romanov Born in 1781 in a small impoverished duchy of Germany Julie s quiet life took a fairy tale turn when she married into the Russian Imperial Family the Romanovs But this world of baroque splendour of opulent palaces and grandeur was no happily ever after Taken to Russia at just fourteen her marriage was hastily brokered to save the Saxe Coburg duchy from financial ruin Her husband Grand Duke Konstantin was cruel and abusive Julie was uprooted from her home family language and culture As Russia and Europe were thrown into tumult by the murder of Emperor Paul and the rise of Napoleon Julie finally made her escape back to Germany where she lived for two decades as a social pariah denied a divorce by the Imperial Family Forced to give up two illegitimate children to protect her family s honour she eventually built a life for herself in Switzerland where she entertained poets and philosophers regaling them with tales from the Russian court Helen Rappaport recreates the extraordinary life of this forgotten figure In doing so she sheds n

Macintyre does true life espionage better than anyone else John Preston From the author of Sunday Times 1 bestsellers COLDITZ SAS ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking Hyde Park in London There they took 26 hostages including embassy staff visitors and three British citizens A tense six day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff while the SAS hitherto an organisation shrouded in secrecy laid plans for a daring rescue mission Operation Nimrod Drawing on unpublished source material exclusive interviews with the SAS and testimony from witnesses including hostages negotiators intelligence officers and the on site psychiatrist bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes readers on a gripping journey from the years and weeks of build up on both sides to the minute by minute account of the siege and rescue Recreating the dramatic conversations between negotiators and hostages the cutting edge intelligence work happening behind the scenes and the media frenzy around t

Legendary cricket broadcaster takes readers on a charming journey through modern cricket while looking back at the great games of yesteryear

14 YEARS 5 PRIME MINISTERS THE PARTY IS OVER

The first hundred years of the American Mafia s existence would come to be seen as a golden age From small town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas the mob had carefully expanded and consolidated their power until their influence touched almost every aspect of American society But in the 1960s everything changed In CLASH OF TITANS the second volume of former Mafia associate Louis Ferrante s groundbreaking Borgata trilogy we discover for the first time the true scale of the conflicts that rocked the organisation between 1960 and 1985 From Robert F Kennedy s personal crusade against the unexpecting mob to covert assassinations betrayal by government informants and full blown insurrections we follow the Mafia from the apex of their power to their descent into civil war This story takes place against the backdrop of a changing America where shadowy CIA conspiracies brutal Justice Department battles and J Edgar Hoover s FBI all leave their mark on the Mafia tale Ferrante s insider history sheds new light on men so powerful they have since become household names Jimmy Hoffa Crazy Joe Gallo Carlo Gambino and more And as ruthless infighting leads to rebellion we watch as a bitter power struggle between Paul Castellano and the young John Gotti begins

It is impossible not to keep the pages turning Scotland on Sunday It s a brilliant book everyone go and get it Dan Snow Compelling and meticulously researched the riveting life of a maverick Scottish spy Charles Cumming THE THRILLING BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART BRITAIN S AGENT IN MOSCOW Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart 1887 1970 was an impressive figure a diplomat intelligence agent conspirator journalist and propagandist who played a key role in both world wars He was a man who charmed his way into the confidences of everyone from Leon Trotsky to Anthony Eden A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed could well have been prime minister And yet Lockhart died almost forgotten and near destitute a Scottish footnote in the pages of history Rogue Agent is the first biography of this gifted yet habitually flawed maverick It chronicles his many exploits from his time as Britain s Agent in Moscow and his role in a plot to bring down the communist regime to leading the Political Warfare Executive a secret body responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the Second World War Exploring Lockhart s unorthodox thinking and contributions to the development of psychological warfare as well as his hedonistic lifestyle late nig

Ingenious a glorious portrait of the great 15th century prince of learning Daily Telegraph

The first insider account of life as a chief whip inside Westminster from MP Simon Hart who has served under Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak

Cameron May Johnson Truss Sunak Five prime ministers one explosive memoir from the heart of Westminster Kingmaker lifts the lid on some of the leadership battles that have defined British politics for a decade and a half The last fourteen years have seen turbulence at the centre of politics that is perhaps unique in British history From coalition to Brexit Covid to Partygate Trussonomics to this year s election our government has never felt so fractured And as Prime Ministers have come and gone one man has been at the heart of every leadership challenge seeing all but saying nothing Until now Sir Graham Brady has been the Chairman of the 1922 Committee since 2010 As the leader of the group with the power to choose a new leader of the Conservative Party it is his hand that held the executioner s axe over five consecutive Conservative Prime Ministers heads Elected to parliament in 1997 as the youngest Conservative MP in the house Brady comes from a lower middle class background and fell into politics age 16 when he joined a campaign to save his grammar school This book is the story of how a boy from Salford came to be the definitive Tory insider With unique access to every key decision maker of the past fourteen years it offers insights into the

Riveting The New York TimesTHE LITTLE KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES FIGHT IN WWII S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA INDIA THEATER In April 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army captured Burma closing the

The definitive story behind the self destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty by the world s foremost expert When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917 Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises from war to social unrest Though Nicholas s life is often described as tragic it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy Based on a trove of new archival discoveries The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas s resistance to reform doomed the monarchy Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era it untangles the struggles between the increasingly isolated Nicholas and Alexandra and the factions of scheming nobles ruthless legislators and pragmatic generals who sought to stabilize the restive Russian empire either with the Tsar or without him By rejecting compromise Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments His blunders cleared the way for all out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union Definitive and engrossing The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution taking his family the Romanov dynasty and the whole Russian Empire down with him

This is the simplest tale in the world Two people meet and fall in love But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but

Donald McRae has followed boxing all his life In recent years his love has waned as criminality doping and dirty money gnaw away at the soul of boxing In 2018 grieving the death of his sister and with his parents seriously ill he sought refuge in boxing again At just this moment Tyson Fury completed one of the most shocking comebacks in the history of the sport proving that it still had the ability to offer thrills and redemption From Fury s comeback to the first undisputed heavyweight champion of this century McRae takes you ringside and into the to the inner sanctums of some of the greatest contemporary fighters He shows what s needed to become a champion like Katie Taylor or Oleksandr Usyk but he also reveals the physical and mental devastation of defeat and by telling the heartbreaking story of Patrick Day faces up to the very real threat of death in the ring In The Last Bell McRae s most personal and explosive book he tries to reconcile the contradictions which lie at the murky heart of a sport he s followed for 50 years and wonders if this might finally be the time to leave it all behind

From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK Diane Abbott has seen it all A Woman Like Me takes readers through Diane s incredible journey painting a vivid picture of growing up in 1960s North London with her working class Jamaican parents before entering the hallowed halls of Cambridge University to study history Ever since the day she first walked through the House of Commons as the first Black woman MP she has been a fearless and vocal champion for the causes that have made Britain what it is today whether it s increasing access to education for Black children and speaking out against the Iraq war or advocating tirelessly for refugees and immigrants A unique figure in British public life Diane has often had nothing but the courage of her convictions to carry her through incredibly hostile environments from torrential abuse in the mainstream media and on social media to being shunned by the political establishment including by her own party Written with frankness and wry humour A Woman Like Me is an inspirational account that celebrates how one woman succeeded against massive odds and built an extraordinary legacy