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To Marry an English Lord by Gail Maccoll Publisher Comments AMERICAN HEIRESSES TAKE ON THE PEERAGE In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realmoXamong them, a duke, an earl, three... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation by Simon Jenkins Publisher Comments The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiarfrom the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore Publisher Comments Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn Publisher Comments IN 1501, ENGLAND HAD BEEN RAVAGED FOR DECADES by conspiracy, coups, and violence. Through luck, guile, and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, emerged as ruler—but as a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s throne, he... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments This grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization offers lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 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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1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford Publisher Comments For more than nine hundred years the Bayeux Tapestryone of the world's greatest historical documents and artistic achievementshas preserved the story of one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba Publisher Comments The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The Kings Speech. This is... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 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 $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley Publisher Comments Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two “dirty centuries”? Why, for centuries, did rich people fear fruit? In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Story of England by Michael Wood Publisher Comments Now a major PBS miniseries The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very center of England. It has an ancient church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial—and many centuries of recorded history. It has... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace by Lucy Worsley Publisher Comments Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bastard Prince by Beverly A Murphy Publisher Comments It took Henry VIII 28 years, three wives, and a break with Rome before he secured a legitimate male heir. Yet he already had the illegitimate Henry Fitzroy. Fitzroy was born in 1519 after the king's affair with a gentlewoman named Elizabeth... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 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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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 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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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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