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The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660 by Blair Worden Publisher Comments One of the most renowned historians of the English Civil War has written a crisp and lucid narrative of the complicated events of 1640 to 1660not just the war between King and Parliament of 1642-46 but the second civil war, the execution of King... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall Publisher Comments Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $14.50 Your price: $7.98 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 deviousbut also at his most human, courageous, and defiant.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Lutz Publisher Comments At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer Publisher Comments The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered... (read more) List Price $16.00 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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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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After the Victorians 1901 1953 by A N Wilson Publisher Comments A follow-up to the bestselling "The Victorians" in which A.N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. He paints the portrait of the age, covering the advances in science and technology, rise of feminism and changes in culture as well... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The King's Speech by Mark Logue About the Author Peter Conradi's books include The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer, Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovksy and the New Russian Nationalism, and Hitler's Piano Player.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn Publisher Comments It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap—a fugitive with a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Victorian London Life of a City 1840 1870 by Liza Picard Publisher Comments Vivid social history of London in one of its most dramatic and exciting periods. From rag-gatherers to royalty, fish knives to Freemasons, this tells of everyday life in London drawing on a huge wealth of primary source material, including unpublished... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The London Encyclopedia by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in more than 10 years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organized alphabetically, cross-referenced, and supported... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Churchills: In Love and War by Mary S Lovell Publisher Comments The First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens by Lisa Hilton Publisher Comments England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very center of power--the king's bed. From Matilda of Flanders, William the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 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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Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock Publisher Comments She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary.” Now, in this impassioned and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Finest Hour by Tim Clayton Publisher Comments New small format edition of the bestselling tie-in to the acclaimed series, a powerful and incisive account of the events of 1940, told through the diaries, letters and memoirs of those that survived - and those that did not. Co-written by the creator... (read more) Your price: $7.98 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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The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain by Diane Purkiss Publisher Comments Drawing on exciting new sources, including letters, memoirs, ballads, plays, illustrations, and even cookbooks, Purkiss creates a rich and nuanced portrait of the turbulent era of the English Civil War which rejected divine right monarchy in favor of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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