Elizabeth II: The Steadfast by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
$24.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Just as this book is being published, Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent significant periods of time in her company, and is also a distinguis ...Show more
Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another p ...Show more
The Special Relationship: Australia and the Monarchy by David Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: British
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to the ancient symbol of colonial power. How have the royals come to be as popular now as they ever were? David Hill tells the story of this relationship from the beginning. Many historie ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens ...Show more
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: British
This is a special 75th Anniversary Edition. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would ne ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: British
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
"Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating b ...Show more
Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand by Stephen Bates
$39.99 AUD
Category: British
It is an amazing feat in the 21st century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small, elderly woman in her mid-eighties, should be one of the most recognisable people on the planet. Her voice is redolent of another era, her interests are esoteric to many of her people, her opinions on anything from the weather to ...Show more
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence - Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present by Lawrence James
$29.99 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James ...Show more
Tudors - The History of England: Volume II by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how t ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: England's Medieval Queens | Reading Level: near fine
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
Cromwell : Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently maligned in the folklore of history. The central purpose of Antonia Fraser's book is the recreation of his life and character, freed from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. C ...Show more