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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson  
Publisher Comments "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."<P>After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to...
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments Queen Elizabeth I and England's First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant...
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1215 the Year of Magna Carta
by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments Vivid exploration of one of the most important years in history. Danziger skilfully weaves the events surrounding the signing of the document, in 1215, with an assessment of its political impact on the life of the era's Everyman. Danziger's "The Year...
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The Diana Chronicles
by Tina Brown Publisher Comments "Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical...
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Kings & Queens of England & Scotland
by Plantagenet Som Fry Publisher Comments From the first Saxon king to Charles, Prince of Wales, this compact visual guide to the royal heritage of Great Britain and Scotland conveys the drama and history of Britain's royal lineage....
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Life of Thomas More
by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments "Ackroyd tells More's story with imaginative sympathy and impeccable scholarship. When one finishes the book one has the sense that not only does Ackroyd know all the available facts about More and his milieu, he knows More himself... this is a wonderful...
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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....
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Statecraft: Strategies for Changing World
by Margaret Thatcher Publisher Comments In Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher, a unique world figure, discusses global military, political, and economic challenges of the twenty0first century. The former British Prime Minister brings her unrivaled political experience to comment on the threats that...
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham Publisher Comments Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the...
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The Princes in the Tower
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments "A SURPRISINGLY FRESH AND TREMENDOUSLY THOROUGH CONTRIBUTION to the debate...Weir's book is, no doubt, not the last on this subject, but it might be the best....[She] constructs a devastating case...[and] brilliantly illuminates the nature of late...
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Farm the True Story of One Family & The
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...
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Kings & Queens (Collins Gem)
by Neil Grant Publisher Comments An illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present. Includes key biographical details of each monarch and concise summaries of their reign. Also features dynatic charts of the royal houses of...
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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....
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Duke
by Philip Guedalla Publisher Comments This classic study of the Duke of Wellington, from the struggle against Napoleon to the post-war attempt to build a new Europe, was widely read by Britain's leaders in World War II. Guedalla's excellent account is particularly noted for his coverage of...
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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...
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A Concise History of England from Stonehenge to the Atomic Age
by F. E Halliday Publisher Comments England A Concise History is a superbly illustrated volume which presents the history of England in a form short enough to be grasped--and seen--as a whole. The author emphasizes the achievements and constructive features of English history--above all...
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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...
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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....
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Nelson: The Immortal Memory
by Stephen Howarth Publisher Comments Here, from two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians, is an immensely human portrait of Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant and most honored naval leader Britain has ever known. A great seaman and tactician who possessed an extraordinary ability...
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The English Revolution 1688-1689
by George Ma Trevelyan Synopsis Records the events surrounding the expulsion of James II from the throne of England....
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