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Wit & Wisdom of Wisdom Churchill by James Humes Publisher Comments An extremely entertaining compendium of bon mots, anecdotes, and trivia about Winston Churchill from a leading Churchill lecturer and performer -- useful for speakers, students, of history, and World War II buffs, as well as general readers.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose Publisher Comments In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 by Linda Colley Publisher Comments In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.95 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Churchill: An Unruly Life by Norman Rose Publisher Comments Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is often proclaimed as the greatest Briton in history and one of the worlds eminent leaders. Born into a dazzling political family, Churchill was awkward and eccentric as a young man but flourished in the army, where he... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill About the Author John Morrill is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jellied Eels and Zeppelins: Witness to a Vanished Age by Sue Taylor Publisher Comments Memories of an Edwardian working-class childhood.... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Seapower by Geoffrey Moorhouse Synopsis Henry VIII's domestic life overshadows a now almost forgotten fact: he founded what would become the Royal Navy. When Henry ascended the English throne, the country's fleet consisted of just five ships. At his death, he handed down to his son, Edward VI,... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Very Short Introductions #19: Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Gri Gillingham Publisher Comments A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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English Society 1580 1680 by Keith Wrightson Synopsis English Society brings together the results of recent historiography, together with much original research by the author, to provide a fascinating picture of society and social change in the period. The first section of the book discusses some of the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Second World War #0004: The Hinge of Fate by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments From uninterrupted defeat to almost unbroken success: a year when Rommel is gradually thrown back in North Africa, and in the Pacific the tide turns.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives by Katie Hickman Publisher Comments In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Diana Cooper... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Highlands by Calum I Maclean Publisher Comments Of the books written on the Scottish Highlands, many have been penned by outsiders with only the most superficial knowledge of Gaelic culture and language. In this new edition of his classic work, the late Calum I. Maclean, a Gaelic-speaking Highlander... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Betty Boothroyd the Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd Publisher Comments The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for—fair play, an unshakeable sense of honor, and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. This is a... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $2.25 Used - Hardcover
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library) by Amanda Foreman Publisher Comments The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection by Margaret D Stetz Publisher Comments This is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quest for Becket's Bones: The Mystery of the Relics of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury by John Butler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-175) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great British Speeches by Simon Heffer Publisher Comments 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. From King Henry V to Margaret Thatcher... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Very Interesting People #06: Elizabeth I by Patrick Collinson Publisher Comments Very definitive, very concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures--people whose... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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