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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) check for new and sale copies 
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by Simon Schama Publisher Comments The third volume of Simon Schama's triumphant "A History Of Britain" tackles the major themes of historical importance for Britain from the reign of George III to the end of the twentieth century. Taking us from the succession of wars against the French,... (read more) Your price $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Stone Publisher Comments Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. "The Causes of the English Revolution" examines the factors leading up to the deposition of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Blakewell Publisher Comments "The Smart" is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute. In the early 1770s, she becomes involved with... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Chitham Publisher Comments Rowley Regis, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, was for a long time a separate entity, being in succession a chapelry, a parish, an Urban District, and a borough. It was made up of a number of separate villages, which later developed into... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $23.70 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nigel Saul Publisher Comments The three Richards who ruled England in the middle ages were among the most controversial and celebrated English kings. Richard I ('Coeur de Lion', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gri Gillingham Publisher Comments A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Seymour Jones Publisher Comments This life of the brilliant and beautiful Beatrice is a very modern story of choices--of socialism over love, and social commitment over social privilege. An intriguing biography of an independent Englishwoman with important reverberations for our own... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Gordon Menzies Publisher Comments History is where we come from, history is who we are. From the Stone Age to the present, this book charts the impact of Celts, Picts, Romans, Irish, Vikings, and English, of battles, wars and empire. The great and the good figure prominently, of course... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne De Courcy Publisher Comments Chapter One Exceptional beauty is an attribute which defines its possessor's life. When Diana Mitford was only ten, her sixteen-year-old cousin Michael Bowles fell violently in love with her. Her looks, charm and gaiety, enhanced by the setting of a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Louis Frewer Publisher Comments This work, based on the annual published lists of book titles, contains in addition all relevant material which has appeared in article form in some 120 British and Commonwealth journals, together with references to book reviews in the same periodicals.... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price $69.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leonore Davidoff Publisher Comments "Worlds Between" presents a series of pioneering essays by Leonore Davidoff which together constitute nothing less than an urgent reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. Among the topics discusses are the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Barone Publisher Comments The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Naomi Mitchison Publisher Comments Naomi Mitchison, Scotland's grand old lady of literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker, kept a wartime diary at the request of Mass-Observation, a social research agency. From the day Hitler invaded Poland to the day America dropped the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Calum I Maclean Publisher Comments Of the books written on the Scottish Highlands, many have been penned by outsiders with only the most superficial knowledge of Gaelic culture and language. In this new edition of his classic work, the late Calum I. Maclean, a Gaelic-speaking Highlander... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugh Douglas Publisher Comments The flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie was one of history's greatest manhunts. It created Scotland's most treasured legend during 1746, when Charles Edward, heir to the Stuart throne, was ruthlessly hunted down after the Battle of Culloden. This book tells... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $9.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Dillon Synopsis Between 1720 and 1751, the "gin craze" nearly overwhelmed London. Patrick Dillon's book follows the history of gin, or "geneva", from its introduction from Holland after the Glorious Revolution, to its role as the sustenance of the poor - a quick trip to... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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