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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 
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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
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by Maureen Waller Publisher Comments In this fascinating narrative history, Waller combines drama with biographical insight as she delves into the lives of the six women who have ruled England. 16-page color photo insert.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lorna Sage 
Publisher Comments In this extraordinary personal history, the late author and influential literary critic Lorna Sage tells the searing tale of her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-World War II Britain--a story of courage, humor, and pain that brings to life... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nigel Saul Publisher Comments Nigel Saul paints a picture of Richard as a highly assertive and determined ruler, one whose key aim was to exalt and dignify the crown. In Richard's view, the crown was threatened by the factiousness of the nobility and the assertiveness of the common... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Flora Fraser Publisher Comments In this sumptuous group portrait of the six daughters of “Mad” King George III, acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser takes us into the heart of the British royal family during the tumultuous period of the American and French revolutions. Drawing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Manchester Publisher Comments Alone is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion, the first volume of which was critically acclaimed: Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by E M Tillyard Publisher Comments This small book has come out of an attempt to write a larger one on Shakespeare's Histories.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Hardman Publisher Comments What really happens when the most powerful man in the world invites the most famous woman in the world to dinner? What is life really like in the 650 rooms beyond the gates of Buckingham Palace? Who are the 50 people in the line of succession to the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cynthia B Herrup Publisher Comments Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But in 17th century England, a sex scandal in which the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for crimes so horrible that "a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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
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by Lorna Sage
Publisher Comments Lorna Sage's adventure in autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial Britain. Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Herman
Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how Britain's Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to power unprecedented in history. From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis Drake, the Royal Navy toppled one... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Hobsbawm Synopsis This title charts the social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830. As capitalism penetrated deeper and deeper into the countryside with the onset of the industrial revolution, farmers rioted all across rural England. These uprisings... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Murray Kendall Publisher Comments I have tried to indicate clearly, either in the text or in the notes, what is fact and what is my own conjecture; and for conjectures of any importance I have given the reasons or evidence on which they are based. If the events of Richard's life and the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dominic Green Publisher Comments In a dramatic narrative, acclaimed historian Green recounts the clash between Victorian Britain and a militant Islamist state that eerily foreshadows the 21st century. of full-color photos.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Spencer Publisher Comments Best known in recent history for Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales when she married Prince Charles in 1981, the Spencer family has had close ties to English royalty for at least 500 years. Indeed, Diana's grandfather claimed that "the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Stothard Publisher Comments Tony Blair was America's closest ally in the war against Saddam Hussein. It was a powerful yet precarious position for the British Prime Minister, as he fought for his own future in backing George W. Bush and sending Britain's forces into Iraq. In this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Underdown Synopsis The town is Dorchester in Dorset; the time the beginning of the seventeenth century. Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English country town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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