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  • Winston Churchill

    Simon Adams

    Library Binding (Raintree, March 3, 2003)
    In 1900 Winston Churchill was a young army officer. By 1945 his leadership had helped defeat the Nazis. How did this happen?
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  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Simon Adams

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Jan. 1, 2003)
    A biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian political and spiritual leader who led his country to freedom from British rule through his policy of nonviolent resistance.
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  • Mao Zedong

    Anne Faulkner

    Library Binding (Raintree, March 3, 2003)
    In 1918 Mao Zedong was working as a library assistant in Beijing. By 1949 he was leader of the People's Republic of China. How did this happen?
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  • Adolf Hitler

    Liz Gogerly

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, March 1, 2003)
    A biography of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and, later, the German nation and whose ambitions led the world to war.
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  • Nelson Mandela

    Ann Kramer

    Library Binding (Raintree, March 5, 2003)
    In 1964 Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison. In 1994 he was elected president of South Africa. How did this happen?
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  • Fidel Castro

    Richard Platt

    Library Binding (Raintree, March 3, 2003)
    In 1945 Fidel Castro was an unknown law student. Today he is the leader of the only communist state in the western hemisphere.
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  • Sigmund Freud

    Liz Gogerly

    Library Binding (Raintree, March 5, 2003)
    In 1875 Sigmund Freud was a young medical student. By the 1920s he had founded an entirely new branch of science. How did this happen?
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Nicola Barber, Anita Ganeri

    Library Binding (Raintree, July 30, 2003)
    For better or worse, the world would not be the same without them. Whether through small individual acts of personal courage and integrity, or through exercises of power that affected the world’s nations, the lives of individuals in this remarkable series helped define the 20th century. Detailed maps, contemporary photographs and illustrations, and first-person accounts paint an inspiring and sometimes shocking portrait of how particular individuals shaped the world we live in today.
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  • Anne Frank

    Emma Johnson

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Sept. 1, 2002)
    A comprehensive look at the life of Anne Frank, her family, and the friends who helped them and other Jews to elude Nazi soldiers for two years by hiding in an attic.
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  • Twentieth Century History Makers: Gandhi

    SimonM Adams

    Paperback (Franklin Watts Ltd, June 8, 2006)
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  • Kings & Queens

    Pamela Egan

    Hardcover (Parragon Publishing, March 15, 1999)
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  • Martin Luther King

    Anita Ganeri

    Paperback (Franklin Watts Ltd, June 8, 2006)
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