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by Danny Danziger  Synopsis On June 15 1215, the Magna Carta was signed, challenging royal authority and laying the foundation for modern democracy. This title explores what it was like to be alive in that momentous year. Politics is interwoven with other issues - fashion, food... (read more)  Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David Yeadon Publisher Comments The Outer Hebrides of Scotland epitomize the evocative beauty and remoteness of island life. The most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, a tiny island formed from the oldest rocks on earth, a breathtaking landscape of soaring mountains, wild... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nuala Ofaolain Publisher Comments Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, was born to power and command. Scion of one of Britain's most aristocratic families, cousin of Churchill and confidant of the king, owner of vast coal fields and landed estates,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Gaskin Publisher Comments Churchill called it his nation’s greatest trial and its finest hour. Europe had fallen to Hitler and Britain stood alone. Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the “... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Mackay Publisher Comments Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas—a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. James MacKay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugo Vickers Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-448) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerrold Packard Publisher Comments Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time... Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ackroyd 
Synopsis Here are two thousand years of London's history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar's and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Starkey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [766]-818) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Starkey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Guy Publisher Comments The eminent British historian John Guy has unearthed a wealth of evidence that upends the popular notion of Mary Queen of Scots as a femme fatale and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Guy draws on sources as... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Clare Beckett Synopsis 'Margaret Thatcher ... carried the authority of her office always with her. It was in her handbag. ... She was asserting it the whole time.' -- Douglas Hurd... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Kelly Publisher Comments "If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable." -- Beau Brummell Long before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Chandos Publisher Comments Although English public schools project an image of clean, polite, and uniformed boys living together in collective worship of God, team games, and academic standards, the early years of these schools had a reality that was far different. The public... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $2.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy Jenkins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [953]-957) and index.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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