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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 The Life of Elizabeth I (American) by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I reigned prosperously for more than forty years, from 1558 until her death in 1603. During her rule, however, she remained an extremely private person, keeping her own... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Winston Churchill: Personal Accounts of the Great Leader at War by Michael Paterson Publisher Comments Paterson juxtaposes Churchill's prolific commentaries on himself with the opinions of those who knew him. From his dramatic escape as a prisoner of war in South Africa to his resurgence as Britain's great wartime prime minister, this is a well-rounded... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elizabeth and Philip: 20 November 1947 by Val Horsler Publisher Comments As Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate their 60 years of marriage, the National Archives presents a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the royal wedding of 1947. The magnificence of the occasion captured the nation's imagination and brought... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Crown Jewels Robbery of 1303: The Extraordinary Story of the First Big Bank Raid in History by Paul Doherty Publisher Comments Many people know of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal the Crown Jewels during the reign of Charles II (1660-1685). However, Blood's conspiracy wasn't the first, and certainly not the most successful. In 1303, while Edward I of England was north of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Churchill by Roy Jenkins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [953]-957) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tower Menagerie by Daniel Hahn Synopsis When King Henry III was given three leopards by his brother-in-law, Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor, he ordered them to be sent to the Tower of London. Over the next 600 years the Tower played host to thousands more exotic animals. Hahn explores the... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941 by Gavin Mortimer Publisher Comments The first in-depth account of the WWII raid that almost defeated England. Seven months after the Nazi Blitz began in September 1940, London remained the center of the free world's resistance to Hitler's Germany. But-contrary to popular belief-the city's "... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nelson: The Immortal Memory by Stephen Howarth Publisher Comments Here, from two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians, is an immensely human portrait of Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant and most honored naval leader Britain has ever known. A great seaman and tactician who possessed an extraordinary ability... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.35 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement by A L Rowse Publisher Comments In this volume, Mr. Rowse brings vividly to life the age's poetry, music, science, painting, sculpture, minor acts, and the world of the theater.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.00 (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   The Queen Mother's Century by Robert Lacey Synopsis Born on August 4,1900, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon became a public figure in 1923 with her engagement and marriage to "Bertie, " the shy, stammering Prince Albert, Duke of New York. Now, on the eve of her hundredth birthday, and as the world awaits the new... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser Publisher Comments From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countryside blacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of naval hero Admiral Nelson, England's most famous native son. She served as model and muse to eighteenth-century Europe's most renowned... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Britain by Jon E Lewis Publisher Comments Beginning with the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 B.C., as seen through the eyes of Julius Caesar, and ending at the dawn of the third millennium, this new Mammoth volume heightens major events in three thousand years of British history with the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style 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 $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alice by Hugo Vickers Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-448) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Common Stream: Two Thousand Years of the English Village by Rowland Parker Publisher Comments The setting is the village of Foxton, in Cambridgeshire, and the common stream is the story of its development from the first traces of human settlement to the present day. The common stream is also the rivulet that runs through it.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D. by Simon Schama From Powells.com This first installment in the series from celebrated historian Simon Schama was both a colossal undertaking and a smashing success. In it, Schama (The Embarrassment of Riches, Rembrandt's Eyes) concisely lays out the themes and events that... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Things Can Only Get Better Eighteen Mise by John Ofarrell Publisher Comments Politicians, believe it or not, "do" have a sense of humour, and to prove it, this is the hilarious personal account of a Labour supporter's miserable eighteen years under a Tory government. The book has been shortlisted for Best Political Book of the... (read more) Your price $4.95 (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

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