Historical Books

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  The Professor And The Madman: A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, And The Making Of The Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)

  by Simon Winchester  

  Price:   Rs.489 Rs.354
  Discount: Rs. 135 (28%)
  Delivered in 2-4 working days.
  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Hailed by the "New York Times" as "a fascinating, spicy, learned tale," this runaway national bestseller takes an extraordinary look into literary genius, madness, and the making of the"Oxford English Dictionary." The Professor and the Madman, mas  read more
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  Destined To Witness: Growing Up Black In Nazi Germany

  by Hans J. Massaquoi  

  Price:   Rs.572 Rs.457
  Discount: Rs. 115 (20%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, H  read more

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  The Greatest Traitor

  by Ian Mortimer  

  Price:   Rs.499 Rs.404
  Discount: Rs. 95 (19%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the south coast, and sailed to France. There he was joined by Isabella, the Quee  read more
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  Woman In Charge, A

  by Carl Bernstein  

  Price:   Rs.550 Rs.457
  Discount: Rs. 93 (17%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  A Woman in Charge reveals the true trajectory of Hillary's astonishing life and career. From a staunchly Republican household and apparently idyllic Midwestern girlhood - her disciplinarian father here revealed as harsher than she has ackno  read more
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  Freedom From Fear And Other Writings: Revised Edition

  by Aung San Suu Kyi   Desmond M. Tutu(Foreword )   Michael Aris(Editor)   Vaclav Havel(Foreword )  

  Price:   Rs.450 Rs.385
  Discount: Rs. 65 (14%)
  Delivered in 2-4 working days.
  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. Today, she is newly liberated from six years' house arrest in Rangoon, where she was held as a prisoner   read more
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  The Story Of My Life

  by Giacomo Casanova  

  Price:   Rs.699 Rs.555
  Discount: Rs. 144 (21%)
  Delivered in 4-9 working days.
  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Synopsis

  Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbucker, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller.

  He lived a life stranger than most   read more
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  Rome In Crisis

  by Plutarch  

  Price:   Rs.699 Rs.562
  Discount: Rs. 137 (20%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Synopsis

  Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdo  read more

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  An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru

  by Jawaharlal Nehru  

  Price:   Rs.499 Rs.426
  Discount: Rs. 73 (15%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Through all its details there runs a deep current of humanity which overpasses the tangles of facts and leads us to the person who is greater than his deeds and truer than his surroundings.' €" Rabindranath Tagore
  
  Jawaharlal  read more
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  Mohandas-A True Story Of A Man,His People And Anempire

  by Rajmohan Gandhi  

  Price:   Rs.599 Rs.467
  Discount: Rs. 132 (22%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  €˜A more heroic tale has yet to be told . . . [Mohandas] is meticulously researched, written in felicitous prose and is a delight to read' €"Khushwant Singh, Outlook
  
  A candid recreation of one of the most influen  read more
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  The Kings & Queens Of Britain (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  by Anne Hargreaves   John Cannon  

  Price:   Rs.791 Rs.687
  Discount: Rs. 104 (13%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  This browsable dictionary gives a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish Monarchs, the entries are ordered in s  read more
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  Maus II: A Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

  by Spiegelman Art  

  Price:   Rs.892 Rs.686
  Discount: Rs. 206 (23%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
  
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  Mao

  by Jon Halliday   Jung Chang  

  Price:   Rs.716 Rs.641
  Discount: Rs. 75 (11%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Editorial Reviews - Amazon
  
  The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before &#  read more
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  Jeff Wall (Contemporary Artists)

  by Thierry De Duve   Thierry Duve  

  Price:   Rs.2459 Rs.1919
  Discount: Rs. 541 (22%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  The work of Canadian artist Jeff Wall has established photography at the forefront of contemporary art. He deploys state-of-the-art film and computer technology while invoking the composition, scale and subject matter of painters such as Velazquez, Goya a  read more
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  Generals: Ten British Commanders who Shaped the World

  by Mark Urban  

  Price:   Rs.615 Rs.494
  Discount: Rs. 121 (20%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure figures, whose achievements or failures m  read more
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  The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

  by Malcolm X  

  Price:   Rs.350 Rs.264
  Discount: Rs. 86 (25%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the cruci  read more
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  Passionate Minds: The Great Scientific Affair

  by David Bodanis  

  Price:   Rs.750 Rs.533
  Discount: Rs. 217 (29%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Dangerous Liaisons meets A Beautiful Mind in this thrilling history of the turbulent love affair that fired the Enlightenment's intellectual revolution.
  
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  The Baburnama: Memoirs Of Babur, Prince And Emperor (Modern Library Classics)

  by W.M. Thackston Jr.  

  Price:   Rs.599 Rs.445
  Discount: Rs. 154 (26%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur was the first Mughal, or Mongol, emperor of India. A devoted warrior who fought by the bloodthirsty standards of his time, Babur was also a gifted scholar and ethnographer, and his memoir, The Baburnama--which translator and   read more
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  Herculine Barbin: Being The Recently Discovered Memoirs Of A

  by Michel Foucault  

  Price:   Rs.701 Rs.539
  Discount: Rs. 163 (23%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage  read more
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  Maharani: Memoirs Of A Rebellious Princess

  by Elaine Williams  

  Price:   Rs.395 Rs.326
  Discount: Rs. 69 (17%)
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  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  From the Author
  

  My first meeting with Princess Brinda, Maharani of Kapurthala, took place at tea in the crystal-chandeliered dining room of the old and elegant Hotel Sulgrave on Park Avenue. The appointment was arranged by my literary agent   read more

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  The Forger: An Extraordinary Story Of Survival In Wartime Berlin

  by Cioma Schonhaus  

  Price:   Rs.629 Rs.485
  Discount: Rs. 144 (23%)
  Delivered in 2-4 working days.
  Language: English | Binding: Paperback

  Book Summary of The Forger: An Extraordinary Story Of Survival In Wartime Berlin

  In Nazi Germany, twenty-yea  read more

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