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Kings & Queens of England & Scotland by Dk Books Publisher Comments Britain's monarchs brought to life through contemporary portraits, artefacts, paintings and photos.... (read more) Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations by Richard Langworth Publisher Comments Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the most inspiring leaders of the twentieth century, and one of its greatest wits. War reporter, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Prime Minister, Nobel Laureate, wordplay enthusiast, he was a powerful man of many... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 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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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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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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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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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: $10.98 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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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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Never Had It So Good-P by Dominic Sandbrook Publisher Comments Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change. He... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Anglo-Saxon England #33: Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 33 by Simon Keynes Publisher Comments It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding scholarly detective work, a fragmentary homiliary, containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after... (read more) List Price $77.25 Your price: $7.97 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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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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New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden Publisher Comments No period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underlying religious motivations for the savage violence and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe Publisher Comments In 1625 Charles I succeeded to the throne of a nation heavily involved in a European war and deeply divided by religious controversy. Within four years he had dissolved Parliament and begun a period of eleven years of personal rule. In the first... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Victorians by A N Wilson Publisher Comments The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Battle of Hastings by Jim Bradbury Publisher Comments This is the first time a military historian has attempted to make accessible to the general reader all that is known about the Battle of Hastings and to present as deatiled a reconstruction as is possible. Furthermore, the author places the battle in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 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 dangerousa 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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