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Agincourt: A New History by Anne Curry Publisher Comments As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march after the taking of Harfleur and diminished by the dysentery they had suffered there, can little have dreamt that the battle of the next... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Blood & Roses by Helen Castor Publisher Comments The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths.... (read more) Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Wilfrid Blunt's Egyptian Garden by Tim Coates Synopsis In 1901, while Egypt is under the protection of the British Empire, a pack of hounds is shipped out to provide sport for the officers. The pack invades the garden of the rich and eccentric poet Wilfrid Scarwen Blunt. Correspondence and scandal ensue.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Farm the True Story of One Family & the English Countryside by Richard Benson Publisher Comments The true story of Richard Benson and his family's move back to the country. He gives us a warm, funny, moving yet unsentimental portrait of life on a fifty-acre Yorkshire smallholding at the turn of a new century. 'A delight, superb. An engaging, tender... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cavalier the Story of a 17TH Century Playboy William Cavendish by Lucy Worsley Publisher Comments From the Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces in England, a vivid portrait of a seventeenth-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War. William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy Publisher Comments The eminent British historian John Guy has unearthed a wealth of evidence that upends the popular notion of Mary Queen of Scots as a femme fatale and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Guy draws on sources as... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives by Katie Hickman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer Staff Pick This is the book you will want to pack before you power up your time machine to visit the 14th century. It is your travel guide to knowing what to wear, how to buy food, how to travel, and how to communicate and even joke with ye olde natives. Ian... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature #67: The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England by Jenni Nuttall Publisher Comments The arguments used to justify the deposition of Richard II in 1399 created new forms of political discussion which developed alongside new expectations of kingship itself and which shaped political action and debate for centuries to come. This... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $24.97 Sale - Hardcover
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John Prebbles Scotland by John Prebble Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-one, John Prebble set out to 'discover' Scotland, and just as Sir Walter Scott had been enthralled by this 'fiercely distinctive land,' so Prebble's imagination was similarly enchanted and challenged. The book draws upon a rich... (read more) Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During England's Tumultuous Civil War by Helen Castor Publisher Comments In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder, yet until now... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Staff Pick Sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes poignant, Bill Bryson takes a trip to the villages of his beloved Britain.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments Quarrel with the Kingtells the story of the first four earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants, and allies, following their high and glamorous trajectory from the 1520s through 1650—the most turbulent and dramatic years of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Lives of the English Rakes by Fergus Linnane Publisher Comments Rake (n): "a dissolute man, esp. one in fashionable society." The English rake strides through the pages of romantic fiction, impossibly handsome, cynical, and dangerous—a gambler, a deadly swordsman leaving a trail of broken hearts and slain rivals... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955 by Barbara Leaming Publisher Comments Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality in this tumultuous political drama of his last ten years of public life. Here is Churchill at his most outrageous, maddening, and devious—but also at his most human, courageous, and defiant.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister by John Campbell Publisher Comments The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics. Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher's impact on twentieth... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Raleghs Last Journey a Tale of Madness Vanity & Treachery by Paul Hyland Publisher Comments Hyland unearths the final months of Sir Walter Ralegh's life - a journey which revealed a web of deceit and grotesque behaviour. 35 b/w plates.... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.) by Amanda Macke Stuart Publisher Comments When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis Publisher Comments Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, London was reborn to become the greatest metropolis of the age. London Rising tells the story of five extraordinary men and the city they transformed. By the middle of the seventeenth century... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" by Linda Porter Publisher Comments It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English history—remembered best for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake. Linda Porters pioneering... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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