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Londonistan: by Melanie Phillips Publisher Comments The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Britains Century War Conflict & Dissent by Press Association Publisher Comments Britain's experience of conflict and dissent in the 20th century has been dramatic in its scope and impact. This book draws on the historic archive of the Press Association to recall some of the country's defining moments of revolt and war. The... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diana: The People's Princess by Richard Wood Publisher Comments Sensitive treatments recall the trials and triumphs of two remarkable -- and vastly different -- role models in easy-to-read photo essays. Time lines and chronologies summarize highlights for young researchers. Young readers can follow Princess Diana... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Constituency Electioneering: Local Campaigning in the 1992 General Election by D T Denver Publisher Comments In this first major study of grass-roots election campaigning for thirty years, David Denver and Gordon Hands survey the evolution of campaigning over the past century and describe in detail how the organised their constituency campaigns in the 1992... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Queen Elizabeth I by J E Neale Publisher Comments Long considered the definitive biography of the great Tudor Queen, this scholarly and immensely readable book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and has been translated into nine languages.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nelson: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments In this coloful, absorbing tale of Nelson’s life on and off the high seas, Hibbert illuminates the admiral’s personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Isles: A History by Norman Davies Publisher Comments Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that takes a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965 by Ian Gazeley Publisher Comments Ian Gazeley's comprehensive study examines changes in the definition and measurement of poverty in Britain during the first 60 years of the 20th century. Commencing with Rowntree's social survey of York in 1899 and ending with Abel-Smith and Townsend's... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $44.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During England's Tumultuous Civil War by Helen Castor Publisher Comments In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder, yet until now... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scotland's Parliament: Triumph and Disaster by Brian Taylor Publisher Comments Taylor has spoken--on and off the record--to all the key players in Scotland's developing political drama. He tells the inside story of Scotland's Parliament--the drama, the horse-trading and the gossip--as well as offering cool, dispassionate analysis.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $17.00 (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   In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain by David Cannadine Publisher Comments An intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Diana I knew :loving memories of the friendship between an American mother and her son's nanny who became Princess of Wales by Mary Robertson Publisher Comments Before she became the Princess of Wales and captured the hearts of millions around the globe, she was Lady Diana Spencer -- a shy, young nanny employed with the Robertsons, an American family living in London who would forge a lifelong friendship with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage by Mary Soames Publisher Comments Clementine Churchill -- shy, passionate, and high-strung -- shunned publicity but was in the limelight throughout her adult life. As a young woman, her character, intelligence, and good looks won the attention of the impetuous Winston Churchill. Their... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list After Diana: Irreverent Elegies by Mandy Merck Publisher Comments Leading cultural critics dissect the enormous welter of words and images to determine what can be made of this extraordinary response to the princess's death. For those perplexed by the events surrounding Diana's death, this book seeks to provide some... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $3.53 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Power & Place the Political Consequences by Simon Heffer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-312) and index.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England by Lita Ros Betcherman Publisher Comments The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest and social intrigue in seventeenth-century English society. The sisters' breeding, beauty, and cunning made them among the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Duke Hamilton is Dead!: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in Stuart Britain by Victor Stater Publisher Comments On the morning of November 15, 1712, the fourth Baron Mohun and the fourth Duke of Hamilton met in Hyde Park. In a flurry of brutal swordplay both fell mortally wounded. Mohun and Hamilton had argued over money and stood at opposite ends of a bitterly... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins Synopsis This biography illuminates in great detail the personal and private life of Elizabeth I, placing the lives of the Queen and her court within the historical context of 16th-century Britain.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diana :the secret years by Simone Simmons Publisher Comments Diana met Simone Simmons in 1993 at the Hale Clinic, where Simone worked as a healer. Their relationship blossomed into a close friendship as Simone encouraged Diana to live "a normal life". They spent long evenings at Kensington Palace talking, walked... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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