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This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young Publisher Comments With pervasive authority and great wit, an acclaimed historian and biographer creates a compelling and comprehensive narrative of Britain's post-World War II relationship with the rest of Europe.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Who Murdered Chaucer a Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones Synopsis Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer. He offers an introduction to Chaucer's writings as evidence that might be held against him, interwoven with a portrait of one of the most turbulent periods in English history,... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War by Christopher Meyer Publisher Comments A candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Macke Stuart Publisher Comments On a November day in 1895, crowds of curious sightseers gathered outside St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York, intent on spotting a small dapper bridegroom whom they knew to be a great English aristocrat awaiting his bride-to-be. When she... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Rise of the Welfare Monarchy: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy by Frank Prochaska Publisher Comments Royal Bounty is a pioneering study of the monarchy's social role and its influence in the institutional and civic life of Britain from George III to the present. Drawing on previously unused material from the Royal Archives and elsewhere, the book opens... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bridging Divides by Eve Darian Smith Publisher Comments A cutting-edge work of legal anthropology, centering on the Channel Tunnel between England and France and the legal, political, and metaphorical complexities of the newly united Europe.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Welsh Woods & Forests a History by W Linnard Synopsis This edition describes the Welsh woodlands and forests from the formation of the Forestry Commission in 1919 to the establishment of the Welsh Assembly and the publication of the Welsh forest strategy in 1999.... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise Powells.com Staff Pick The story of the "Italian boy" murder case was fodder for many of the lurid body-snatching tales that later emerged from the pens of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker. This absorbing narrative evokes Fagin and Bill Sykes, the charred alleys,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diaries Into Politics 1972 1982 by Alan Clark Publisher Comments The second volume of memoirs which covers the period from 1973, with Clarke's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (where rival candidates included Micheal Howard and Norman Fowler), to his downfall after the election of... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Historic Britain from the Air by Nicholas Best Publisher Comments A unique aerial exploration of England, Scotland and Wales. Includes the greatest buildings and sites from a very unusual perspective.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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   Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff Publisher Comments A sequel to Woodruff's bestselling memoir of a Lancashire childhood, "The Road To Nab End" which begins in the 1930s and tells the story of how the one-time steelworker won a place at Ruskin College, Oxford against the odds, and provides a moving account... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter by Anna R Beer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London by Daniel Hahn Publisher Comments The strange six-hundred-year history of the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London. From a polar bear who fished the Thames nightly for his dinner to elephants who drank only wine, the inhabitants of the southwest corner of the Tower of London were a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy Publisher Comments In hundreds of hours of taped interviews, Diana Mosley not only spoke to the author with extreme frankness about her life and beliefs but, during the course of several years, gave unprecedented access to her private papers, letters and diaries. The only... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dr. Johnson's London: Coffe-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freak Shows and Female Educatio by Liza Picard Publisher Comments The practical realities of everyday life are rarely described in history books. To remedy this, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the lives of our ancestors, Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals, almanacs and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive by Celia Sandys Publisher Comments In this biography of a dashing, brash young Churchill, Celia Sandys reconstructs her celebrated grandfather's adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War at the end of the last century—events that took him... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs Synopsis The period May 24-28 1940 altered the course of history as members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. These five days are the focus of Lukacs' book. Conveying their drama and importance he takes us... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian by Brian Thompson Publisher Comments Born to fanatically snobbish Victorian parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. She was supposed to marry well and restore the family fortune, but soon proved to have other ideas. Her scandalous affair with a married... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Prime Minister & Cabinet Today by Graham P Thomas Publisher Comments This comprehensive account of a crucial but rather neglected aspect of British government examines the role and significance of the prime minister and cabinet today. Post-war premiers and their cabinets up to and including 1997 provide the focus. The... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Major a Political Life by Anthony Seldon Publisher Comments Far from the "grey man" of popular myth, John Major emerges from this illuminating portrait as a knowing political operator, a quixotic and passionate personality, and an authoritative member of the exclusive club of world leaders. For the last three... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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