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Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill's essential, abridged memoirs of that time are reintroduced with an updated cover and a new low price. The quintessence of the war as seen by it's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives by Katie Hickman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson Publisher Comments Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in England in the first half of the twentieth century was engaged in the bold experiment of refashioning not just their art, but their daily lives. They reinvented the home, challenging and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genuis of the Golden Age by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments An intimate portrait of history’s most fascinating monarch.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn Publisher Comments The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 (Penguin History of Britain) by David Mattingly Publisher Comments The definitive history of Roman Britain In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mosley (Life & Times) by Nigel Jones Publisher Comments Released from jail after the war, Mosley tried to reform his movement from exile, attacking Britain's new immigrants and advocating a united white Europe. With the rise of the far right in European politics, race and nation are again urgent issues; this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kings & Queens of Britain by John Cannon Publisher Comments This brand new dictionary gives a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, the entries are ordered in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Childhood in Scotland (Canongate Classics) by Christian Miller Publisher Comments With a uniquely gentle and surreal cast of mind, Christian Miller recalls her deprived upper-class child-hood in Scotland in the 1920s, where shooting came second only to religion, where questions were frowned on, toys discouraged, and reading a waste of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Great Britain on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd?s brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Plot Against Pepys by James Long Synopsis Part history, part bone-rattling suspense, this work tells the forgotten story of two of the most dangerous years in the life of legendary diarist Samuel Pepys, who, in 1679, was charged with treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Days of Charles I by Graham Edwards Publisher Comments Written to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Charles I on January 27 1649, this book recounts in detail the events leading to the fateful day, from the King's tribulation in the months before the trial, though the trial itself to the gruesome... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The English Revolution 1688-1689 by George Ma Trevelyan Synopsis Records the events surrounding the expulsion of James II from the throne of England.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list State Were In by Will Hutton Publisher Comments Paperback edition of this surprising hardback bestseller that was number one for eight weeks. Will Hutton, the >Guardian<'s Economics Editor, has produced a challenging and creative book on the malaise affecting virtually every aspect of British... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Oxford illustrated history of Britain by Kenneth O Morgan Publisher Comments This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Britain and its peoples over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe.With the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [766]-818) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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