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Author: David Starkey
Bestselling royal historian David Starkey,s captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy,s most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense, Henry VIII was Britain,s most absolu ... |
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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End
Author: Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi
Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle's refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Lo ... |
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The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Author: Anne Sebba
One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a woman of Wallis Simpson, Duchess ... |
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The Story of Science and the Royal Society
Author: Bill Bryson
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th ann ... |
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Her Life in Our Times
Author: Sarah Bradford
Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presi ... |
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The Woman Behind the Throne
Author: Sally Bedell Smith
This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmati ... |
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Author: Henrik Eberle
Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, havin ... |
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The Impact of the Norman Conquest
Author: Donald Matthew
Donald Matthew describes these interactions during the period 1000- 1300, and cogently assesses what advantage was taken of these opportunities on the broadest possible front. |
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Author: Marc Morris
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever ... |
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Henry VIII and His Italian Ambassador
Author: Catherine Fletcher
It's 1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he faces an almighty challenge. Henry wants ... |
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
"London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stat ... |
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Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
Author: David Edgerton
This title was selected for "Guardian" books of the year. The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history sho ... |
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A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War
Author: Adam Hochschild
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include ... |
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Calling Time on the Grand Project
Author: Iain Sinclair
In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012. Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a ... |
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A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
Author: Mary S. Lovell
There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles ... |
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Author: Ben Macintyre
A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves tr ... |
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The American Revolutionary War
Author: Hugh Bicheno
Controversial and revisionist history of America's first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series - written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes. Most people vi ... |
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The First Men in Tanks
Author: Christy Campbell
The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War I: the British pioneer volunteers who were the first tank-men into battle. Inspired by a visit to ... |
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The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey
Author: Leanda de Lisle
The dramatic untold story of the Grey sisters, heirs to the Tudor throne. Lady Jane Grey is an iconic figure in English history. Misremembered as the 'Nine Days Queen', she has been mythologized as a child-woman destroy ... |
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A History of England Through the Monarchy
Author: David Starkey
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. ... |
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