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Drawing on the War Cabinet papers, other government documents, private diaries, newspaper accounts, and memoirs,Never Surrender tells the story of summer of 1940, the ...
Andrew Robert's much-admired biography of one of the most influential and controversial British politicians of the 1930s.
Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal ...
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with ...
Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman ...
William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by ...
William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death- killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or ...
Just as this book is being published, Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her ...
The maps featured provide fascinating insights into topics such as: the development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding industry, the villages which were gradually subsumed ...
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human ...
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and ...
A major new study of the kingship of James VI and I and Charles I in Scotland, England and Ireland, from 1567 to the outbreak ...
'An erudite and fascinating work' Jan Morris, New York Times
'An artful combination of history, archaeology and the imagination' Mary Beard, New York Review of ...
