Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 by David Kynaston
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Category: British
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 1957-62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston g ...Show more
Tales from the Dead-House: A Collection of Macabre True Crimes by Richard Whittington-Egan
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Category: British
Macabre crimes have long fascinated us as people, and our murky past ensures that we have no shortage of tales to chill and entertain in equal measure. From Jack the Ripper to John George Haigh, from Dr Crippen to Dr Shipman, history is riddled with examples of the darkest examples of human nature. In t ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies: Volume IV by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: British | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: British | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
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Category: British
With a new commentary by David Carpenter "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his eq ...Show more
The London Scene by Virginia Woolf
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Category: British | Series: (with Virginia Woolf)
Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets (#4) by Alison Weir
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Category: British | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers KATHERINE OF ARAGON: THE TRUE QUEEN, ANNE BOLEYN: A KING'S OBSESSION and JANE SEYMOUR:THE HAUNTED QUEEN, paints a spellbinding portrait of Anna of Kl ...Show more
William II: The Red King by John Gillingham
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Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had t ...Show more
Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
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Category: British
Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence. From his emergence in the aftermath of the 1916 rebellion as the republican l ...Show more
The Royal Art of Poison - Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
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Category: British
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, the royal families of Western Europe have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned priso ...Show more