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  • Chaim Weizmann: President of Israel

    Tom Biracree, William P. Hansen, John Haney, Richard Amdur

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1988)
    Presents a biography of the leader who worked to establish a national homeland for Jews in Palestine and served as Israel's first president in 1949
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  • Napoleon

    Leslie McGuire

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Dec. 1, 1985)
    Traces the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte, describes his major militrary victories and defeats, and assesses his influence on European history
    Z

  • Martin Luther

    Sally Stepanek

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1986)
    A biography of the German monk who led the Protestant Reformation in Europe from its beginning in 1517 until his death in 1546.
    T

  • Mao Zedong

    Bernard Garfinkel, Hedda Garza

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Oct. 1, 1987)
    A biography of the man who transformed China from a culture steeped in ancient traditions into a revolutionary communist state.
    S

  • George Washington

    Roger Bruns, Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, Nov. 1, 1989)
    Traces the life of the American planter, soldier, and statesman, describes his role in the American revolution, and assesses his accomplishments as president
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  • Dag Hammarskjold

    Richard N. Sheldon

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 1987)
    A biography of the Swedish diplomat who served as secretary-general of the United Nations and was awarded the Nobel peace prize after his death in 1961.
    T

  • Winston Churchill

    Judith Rodgers

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1986)
    Traces the life of the British Prime Minister, describes his education and early political career, and assesses his role in leading Britain through World War II

  • Mary Queen of Scots

    Sally Stepanek

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1987)
    Presents the eventful life of the Scottish queen, proclaimed so at the age of one week, who married three times and was beheaded for plotting against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England.

  • Vladimir Ilich Lenin

    John Haney

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1988)
    Follows the life of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, who became the first head of the Soviet state
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  • The Gemayels

    Matthew Gordon

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Publishers, Aug. 16, 1988)
    Examines the life of the current president of Lebanon and that of his predecessor, who was his brother.
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  • Catherine the Great

    Catherine McGuire-Max

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1986)
    Recounts the story of the eighteenth-century Empress of Russia, describing her life as wife, mother, and ruler.
    X

  • Peter the Great

    Kathleen McDermott

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1990)
    A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries
    Y