The Sphinx

  • The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
    By Nicholas Wapshott

    In The Sphinx, Nicholas Wapshott recounts how an ambitious and resilient Roosevelt—nicknamed "the Sphinx" for his cunning, cryptic rapport with the press—devised and doggedly pursued a strategy to sway the American people to abandon ...

  • The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt The Isolationists And The Road To World Warii
    By Nicholas Wapshott

    In The Sphinx, Nicholas Wapshott recounts how an ambitious and resilient Roosevelt—nicknamed "the Sphinx" for his cunning, cryptic rapport with the press—devised and doggedly pursued a strategy to sway the American people to abandon ...

  • The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough
    By Hugo Vickers

    **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** **The Times Best Biography Audiobook of the Year 2021** 'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her contemporaries' SUNDAY TIMES 'Best Paperbacks of ...

  • The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough
    By HUGO. VICKERS

    **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' SUNDAY TIMES 'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account of a unique figure, the stuff of great ...

  • The Sphinx
    By Jeff Weigel

    Who is The Sphinx?

  • The Sphinx
    By Pete DiPrimio

    The Sphinx legend began in Egypt over 4,500 years ago when ancient Egyptians were giving their gods animal forms. Built to guard the royal tombs of the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx had the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.

  • The Sphinx: A 4,000-Year-Old Riddle
    By Ruth Owen

    Overlooking the River Nile and guarding the Giza pyramids is one of the world’s oldest and largest statues—the Sphinx.