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Eleanor The Secret Queen: The Woman who put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

17 Death The dowager Countess of Shrewsbury enjoyed Edward IV’s generosity for less than two years, for she died on Sunday 14 June 1467, at the age of 63, and ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2016 )
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Eliza Merrett knew very little of books—indeed, she was barely literate. But when she saw how keenly Doctor Minor collected and cherished his old volumes, and when she listened to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2016 )
Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Braddon [Russell Braddon]

CHAPTER XIII OLD ENEMIES AND NEW FRIENDS DENIS had had terrible difficulty catching up with Nancy and Hubert. ‘My dear, swarms of Germans chasing me everywhere,’ he vowed. Now that ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Richard Toye [Toye, Richard]

IV Menzies was no lone critic, however. The war was not going well and Churchill had to work constantly to maintain his position in Parliament. The German invasion of the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2016 )
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Nicholas Phillipson [Phillipson, Nicholas]

The civil Law is digested into a more regular System than the English Law has yet been, and tho’ the Principles of the former are in many respects different from ...
( Category: Great Britain December 23,2015 )
Churchill : The Unexpected Hero by Churchill; The Unexpected Hero
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
Churchill Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
The Western Front 1915 by Peter F Batchelor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by Guy John
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-10 | Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]

The Court of Philip and Mary Philip was accorded his own royal household. The queen’s household was located in what, during her father’s and brother’s reigns, was the part of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley
epub |eng | 2005-06-04 | Author:Lucinda Hawksley [Hawksley, Lucinda]

Lonely without Lizzie, Rossetti spent New Year’s Eve 1855 with the Madox Browns; contrarily, his animosity for Emma had dissipated now that she was no longer able to spend time ...
( Category: Great Britain December 5,2015 )
The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

When he suggested having Mark, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve had all these women and you live with them and you say you love them and then come back after ...
( Category: World War II December 5,2015 )
The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Mary S. Lovell

If you could have a look, as I have, at some of the less agreeable results of fascism in a country [she wrote to Sydney], I think you would be ...
( Category: England November 11,2015 )
Thomas Becket by John Guy
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:John Guy [Guy, John]

SUNDAY WAS MEANT to be a day of rest, but Becket spent it at the priory in earnest, anxious conclave with his clerks. “Scarcely,” reports William fitz Stephen, “was there ...
( Category: England November 5,2015 )
Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Michael Shelden [Shelden, Michael]

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain November 1,2015 )

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