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From the Revolutionary War to his death in 1831, James Monroe's life was dominated by partisan politics. Monroe not uniquely among the American founders hated political parties, even writing that he "always considered their existence as the curse of the country." Yet his career saw the rise, fall, and rebirth of American political parties.

In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations Executive. Across the continent, SOE recruited women to "set Europe ablaze." Working as secret agents and saboteurs, these individuals bolstered resistance from within and provided much needed support and weapons. F Section's actions in France are renowned, and today some operatives have become household names.

How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.

Des Powell left school with no qualifications and little in the way of formal education. At nineteen he signed up to join the Parachute Regiment. Famously, the Paras is home to the UK military's second-toughest training regime after the SAS. Des Powell knows all about both. In fact, Des knows SAS selection better than anyone because he's done it twice. In SAS: Trial by Fire he tells the story of those gruelling tests: how Para training turned him into a soldier but, more crucially, how the SAS process turned him into a member of the elite.

Un cayuco ha aparecido hace unos días en la isla de Barbados, con una decena de migrantes africanos fallecidos en su interior; se desconoce de dónde y cuándo partieron de África y las autoridades locales tratan de identificar los cuerpos”. Aquel flash informativo me dejó paralizado. Era la una de la tarde del domingo 30 de abril de 2006…” Así comienza En este gran mar, el tercer libro africano del periodista Juan Manuel Pardellas, que desentraña las claves de uno de los episodios más dramáticos de la migración de jóvenes africanos hacia Europa: la historia de 53 jóvenes ...

Claire Wallace flees New York in 1894--as far away from her dead father's bank robbing gang as she can. But apparently, even two thousand miles isn't far enough. Toby Gilbert, an undercover Pinkerton's operative, places an ad for a wife as part of his cover. He has no intention of falling in love for real. What happens when Claire's father's associates come looking for her, thinking she's making a deal with the government? And what happens when Toby's plans fall by the wayside? Will he love her by laying down his life? Or does God have other plans?