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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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith Publisher Comments In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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James Herriot's Yorkshire: A Guided Tour with the Beloved Veterinarian Through the Land of All Creatures Great and Small and Every Living Thing, by James Herriot Publisher Comments Here is James Herriot's best-selling personal tour through the beautiful, almost magical land of All Creatures Great and Small and his new volume of memoirs, Every Living Thing. The gorgeous northern English countryside, depicted so memorably in James... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wallington's World by Paul S Seaver Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens. This unique portrait of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King by Charles Beauclark Publisher Comments Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tells the story of one of England's great folk heroines. Born during a tumultuous period in England's past, Nell Gwyn was spotted selling oranges in the Theatre... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments There may be no more fascinating historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. Chaucer wrote... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill by Anne Sebba Publisher Comments Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a maverick politician and mother of the most famous British statesman of the century. Jennie Churchill was... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Women of Windsor: Their Power, Privilege, and Passions by Catherine Whitney Publisher Comments Who are the women of Windsor? Queen Elizabeth: Born to duty, adored by her parents, she swore as a teenager to serve her country above all else . . . and she has lived up to her promise, even when her crown has been a burden. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother:... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Henry VIII is perhaps England's most infamous monarch, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. He was married to six distinctly different women, and in this richly detailed and meticulously researched history, these remarkable, often... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana by Peter Hitchens Publisher Comments Prominent English social critic Peter Hitchens writes of the period between the death of Winston Churchill and the funeral of Princess Diana, a time he believes has seen disastrous changes in English life. The Abolition of Britain is bitingly witty and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen by Winston Churchill, its greatest leader As Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, Winston Churchill was not only the most powerful player in World War II but also the free... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sisters the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S Lovell Publisher Comments This is the Story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Diana Her True Story by Andrew Morton Publisher Comments HER LIFE HAS SEEMED LIKE A FAIRY-TALE COME TRUE...yet the shocking truth is that for Diana, Princess of Wales, life has been far from perfect. Written with the cooperation and support of members of Diana's family and her closest friends, and illustrated... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Second World War #0006: Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Langford Publisher Comments While the rest of eighteenth century Europe was embroiled in revolution and unrest, Britain embarked on an era of comparative calm and stability. Two attempts by the Stuarts to reclaim the throne were easily put down, not through the power of the British... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #17: Roman Britain by Peter Salway Publisher Comments Peter Salway's Very Short Introduction to Roman Britain weaves together the results of archaeological investigation and historical scholarship in a rounded and highly readable concise account. He charts life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of England by H V Morton Publisher Comments Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called "travel writing at its best. Bill Bryson must weep when he reads it." Whether describing ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Lion, Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester Publisher Comments Alone is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion, the first volume of which was critically acclaimed: Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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