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Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
by Lois Gordon  Publisher Comments Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the life of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a...
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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 Englands First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsinghams official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was Englands first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant...
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by Julia Fox Publisher Comments In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and...
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Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill's First Speech as Prime Minister
by John Lukacs Publisher Comments On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Europe was in crisis: Three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low Countries. Facing only feeble resistance, Hitler’s...
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On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families
by Jeremy Paxman Publisher Comments The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power. Increasingly, they tend towards the condition of pipsqueak principalities like Liechtenstein and Monaco—fancy...
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by Eric Metaxas Publisher Comments Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of...
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Churchill
by Roy Jenkins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [953]-957) and index....
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Winston Churchill - Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War
by Douglas Russell Synopsis Considering he has been and will remain to be one of the most studied personalities of the 20th century, relatively little has been written about the military service and war experiences of Winston Churchill - even his own writings give scant coverage of...
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Churchill and America
by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship with the United States. Churchill and America...
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Edward III (Revealing History)
by W M Ormrod Publisher Comments The fifty-year reign of one of England's most charismatic leaders is assessed in this lucid and incisive work. W.M. Ormrod traces Edward's life from his birth, when the very future of the monarchy in England was under threat, to his death when he...
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the...
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Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Antonia Fraser Synopsis Antonia Fraser takes a sympathetic look at the lives of Henry VIII's wives. Taking each in turn, she portrays them as women of spirit, and looks beyond their tragic ends....
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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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Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully
by Carrie Barratt Publisher Comments In 1837, Thomas Sully, who had created a vogue for full-length portraiture among the elite of Philadelphia, was offered a commission to paint the young Queen Victoria. He had already painted Andrew Jackson and Lafayette, but it was his refined and...
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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...
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Life of Thomas More
by Peter Ackroyd Synopsis Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history. This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and...
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Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood
by Nancy Schoenberger Publisher Comments You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was clutching her portrait when he died). She was Lady...
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Elizabeth I
by Felix Pryor Publisher Comments Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years, and her reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. She was Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, but is also...
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Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III (England's Forgotten Queens)
by Michael Hicks Publisher Comments Anne Neville was queen to England’s most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalized by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her husband’s murderer. Anne’s...
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Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson
by Paula Byrne Publisher Comments This compelling and richly researched book presents a fascinating portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author. Though one of the most flamboyant free...
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