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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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by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French Dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her head.<P>Instead, Mary... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugh Douglas Publisher Comments Flora MacDonald's voyage over the sea to Sky with the fugitive Bonnie Prince Charlie dressed as her maid made her into an instant heroine and the subject of legend and song. The world admired her bravery, but after she returned to Sky, she and her new... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Turner Publisher Comments "The Tories and Europe" examines one of the most contentious issues in British politics over the past thirty years. It traces the way in which the issue of Europe has led to the electoral disintegration of a party which had previously dominated British... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juliet Barker Publisher Comments From a master historian comes an astonishing chronicle of life in medieval Europe and the battle that altered the course of an empire.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Barroitt Publisher Comments This study of the problem of Catholic and Protestant discord in Northern Ireland was written under the sponsorship of the Irish Association for Cultural, Economic, and Social Relations. The antagonism that plagues Northern Ireland's life is diagnosed in... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by P D Jephson Publisher Comments No One Knows more about Diana's struggles than P. D. Jephson, her closest aide and adviser during her years of greatest public fame and deepest personal crisis. -- Shadows of a Princess was denounced by Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Lisa Jardine Publisher Comments The statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lived a divided life. Was he a noble scholar, or a conniving political crook? Was he a homosexual? Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart draw upon previously untapped sources to create a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jenny Wormald Publisher Comments Covers Scottish history from prehistory to the twenty-first century. 8pp colour plates, 4 maps.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Titchmarsh Publisher Comments An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know—from Austen to Wordsworth; Jerusalem to the Scout's Honor; kings and queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory; Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St. shirt makers; tying a Windsor... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christop Catherwood Publisher Comments As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith Dockray Publisher Comments Edward IV (1461-83), so often overshadowed by his younger brother and eventual successor Richard III is a controversial figure in his own right. Was he a lazy and licentious lightweight who much preferred his mistresses to his misters and had little... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Catling Book News Annotation A visual tribute to the Great Gritty City by the Riverside, mostly large, bright, color photographs and paintings of historical buildings and scenes, including some fold-out pages. Organized conveniently for the visitor into sections on the four... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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