Boeken Minister-president

Texas Titans: George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker, III: A Friendship Forged in Power

George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker, III: A Personal and Political Friendship for the Ages The friendship between George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker, III began over fifty years ago on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club when they found themselves paired as a doubles team, winning back-to-back championships in 1966 …

Kennedy Curse

Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen

Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen is the biography of the Cambodian leader whose private life has been a closely guarded secret. Fully updated and revised from the authors’ first edition (Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia, published 1999), this volume is based on recently declassified archival documents and hours of new interviews with Hun …

Joseph Cook

British Prime Ministers - Blair

Biography of the last British Prime Minister of the 20th Century.

Gordon Brown: Prime Minister (Text Only)

The gripping inside story of Gordon Brown’s rise to become Prime Minister. Gordon Brown’s arrival at the Treasury in May 1997 was greeted with great excitement – not to mention anticipation. Officials of every rank looked on expectantly to see what miracles the chancellor would work. And so, as Master of the New Era, Brown …

The Real Modi

Who were the people who accompanied Narendra Modi in his baraat*?* Who introduced him to cricket, a sport he loved playing? What was his first responsibility after joining the RSS in Ahmedabad? Who imparted the first lessons in savings to Modi? What was the fate of the tape recorder that was gifted to him by …

The Lost Prime Ministers

After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years. From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie …

Beck Paperback 1015 - Kleine Geschichte der Sowjetunion 1917-1991

Die Sowjetunion ging vor mehr als drei Jahrzehnten unter, doch ihr Erbe wirkt bis heute nach. Das vorliegende Buch bietet ein chronologisches, knapp gefasstes Porträt der einstigen Supermacht und zeigt ihre Entwicklung von den Anfängen über den Bürgerkrieg, den Stalinismus, den Zweiten Weltkrieg, den Kalten Krieg bis hin zur Auflösung unter Gorbatschow. Ein Ausblick fragt, …

British Prime Ministers - Attlee

Former British Prime Minister best known for the creation of the National Health Service.