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  • FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN TO THE KOREAN WAR
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    FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN TO THE KOREAN WAR
    STEPHEN WADE
    In 1941, Beryl Baxter, a dressmaker from Grimsby, signed up to do her bit in the Battle of Britain. She was to serve as a plotter as aircraftswoman in the WAAF and, upon discharge in 1949 she began life as a welfare worker for the Women's Voluntary Service. Her postings included the Korean War, Japan, Hong Kong and Iraq. Throughout these years of service she fulfilled the roles...

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  • ROYAL MYSTERIES OF THE TUDOR PERIOD
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    ROYAL MYSTERIES OF THE TUDOR PERIOD
    TIMOTHY VENNING
    Uncover the secrets haunting the Medieval royal court in this page-turning delve into the Tudor's dark past. The Tudor period is familiar to British public in reading and viewing in books, TV series and film - the list is endless, from Shakespeare and Fletcher in the 1600s to Hilary Mantel et al, and involving internationally famous authors and actors. This is backdrop to the '...

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  • LOUIS XIV'S ARCHITECT
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    LOUIS XIV'S ARCHITECT
    RICHARD BALLARD
    A must-read for those seeking to understand the intersection of politics and art in a pivotal moment of European history. This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in architecture ...

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  • THE LIFE OF CICERO
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    THE LIFE OF CICERO
    PHILIP KAY-BUJAK
    Fresh new look at the life of Cicero, Rome's greatest orator and one of the key figures of the 1st century. Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as consul (63 BCE), hi...

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  • ROYAL MYSTERIES OF THE STUART AND GEORGIAN PERIODS
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    ROYAL MYSTERIES OF THE STUART AND GEORGIAN PERIODS
    TIMOTHY VENNING
    Both interesting and disturbing, learn all about the alleged attempt to murder James I and VI before the became King of England, the plots at court involving 'poisoned tarts', to the marriage court scandal of George III. 'There is nothing new under the sun', a phrase ascribed originally to King Solomon, applies to the present book, with echoes of 'modern' themes exposing royal ...

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  • SCANDALOUS LEADERSHIP
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    SCANDALOUS LEADERSHIP
    M. J. TROW
    An exploration of the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders of Great Britain and the United States. Before Britain had a prime minister – and before they invented America – the dictator Oliver Cromwell urged the artist Lely to paint him 'warts and all'. This book deals with some of the 'all', but is mostly about the warts, the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders...

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  • SAVING THE SCHINDLER'S DAUGHTER
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    SAVING THE SCHINDLER'S DAUGHTER
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    Lore Schindler was ten years old when her dentist father Harry was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His wife Grete bought his release by giving all their possessions to the Nazi state. Leaving Germany with just 10 Marks each, parents and daughter suffered humiliating strip searches at the border. This was the start of Lore's ordeal...

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  • VLADIMIR PUTIN
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    VLADIMIR PUTIN
    JAMES GREENSMITH
    Get inside the mind of Putin and discover what makes this ruthless, brutal, and amoral dictator tick. Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and destruction to another country, and even to his own people, were over, and that the lessons of the past had b...

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  • THE WORST MEDIEVAL MONARCHS
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    THE WORST MEDIEVAL MONARCHS
    PHIL BRADFORD
    Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England's medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All have been seen as incompetent, their ...

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  • THE PTOLEMIES, APOGEE AND COLLAPSE
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    THE PTOLEMIES, APOGEE AND COLLAPSE
    JOHN D. GRAINGER
    The Second part of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy III, Ptolemy IV, Ptolemy V and Ptolemy VI. The second volume of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy II, III, IV, V and VI, who between them reigned for a century. Ptolemy III's rule brought the acquisition of Cyrenaica (through marriage) and territorial gains in Syria, the Aegean,...

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  • LIFE IN VICTORIAN ERA IRELAND
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    LIFE IN VICTORIAN ERA IRELAND
    IAN MAXWELL
    There are many books which tackle the political developments in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The aim of this book is to show what life was like during the reign of Queen Victoria for those who lived in the towns and countryside during a period of momentous change. It covers a period of sixty-four years (1837-1901) when the only thing that that connected its divergent ...

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  • HELICOPTERS AND NORTH SEA OIL
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    HELICOPTERS AND NORTH SEA OIL
    PETER SAXTON
    A series of personal accounts by highly trained helicopter pilots, including those with distinguished careers in the military and commercial flying, who with divers, ensured that essential staff could operate in North Sea oil exploration and oil supply. They were the vital link in the process and operated in the most challenging circumstances, often in high levels of danger and...

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  • LOST AT SEA IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
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    LOST AT SEA IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
    RICHARD M. JONES
    When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most mysterious vanishings, ships that have made headlines but have n...

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  • THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
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    THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
    LEN SCOTT
    It is sixty years since the events of October 1962 brought the world close to nuclear catastrophe. The Cuban missile crisis has long been recognized as the moment of greatest danger in the life (and near death) of humanity. In those sixty years, our knowledge and understanding of events have undergone significant change. There are some reasons to be encouraged, inasmuch as we h...

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  • HOW TO DRESS LIKE A TUDOR
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    HOW TO DRESS LIKE A TUDOR
    JUDITH ARNOPP
    The perfect how-to guide for dressing like your favorite Tudor. Have you ever hankered to dress like a Tudor lord or lady, or perhaps you prefer the status of goodwife, or costermonger, or even a bawd? For beginner historical reenactors, the path to authenticity can be bewildering and sometimes intimidating. Judith Arnopp uses her own experience, both as a historian and a medie...

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  • THE CITY DAIRY
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    THE CITY DAIRY
    DAVE JOY
    The early nineteenth century witnessed the mass movement of people from Britain's countryside into its burgeoning towns and cities; people came to the city in search of work. This prompted many dairy farmers to follow suit and move themselves, their family and their cows into the country's growing metropolises, where they opened the first generation of city dairies. In the 1830...

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  • ESCAPE FROM THE TALIBAN
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    ESCAPE FROM THE TALIBAN
    BASHIR SAKHAWARZ
    A rare first hand account of the US withdrawal from Kabul through the eyes of a civilian. Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was captured by the Taliban and nearly sold to an Arab Shaikh narrowly escaping due to a small twist of fate. In June 2021, Deeba returned to visit family in Kabul to organize the enga...

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  • QUEEN VICTORIA AFTER ALBERT
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    QUEEN VICTORIA AFTER ALBERT
    ILANA D. MILLER
    Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign. From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire. Political, scientific, and industrial wonders were changing the world. Britain's influence reached all corners of the earth. Bu...

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  • BROADMOOR INMATES
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    BROADMOOR INMATES
    NICOLA SLY
    Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum brings together the histories of people who died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating their confinement and containment for their own protection, as well as that of the public. Nowadays, staff have a wide range of ...

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  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN TUDOR ENGLAND
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    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN TUDOR ENGLAND
    APRIL TAYLOR
    Don't miss out on this riveting read that will transport you back in time and leave you with a deeper understanding of law enforcement in medieval England! Crime and Punishment in Tudor England tells the story of the enactment of law and its penalties from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. The sixteenth century was remarkable in many ways. In England, it was the century of the Tudor Dy...

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  • THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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    THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
    JOHN FAZIO
    Covering one of the most defining moment of America's history, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln aims to lay the multitude of theories surrounding Lincoln's assassination to rest. Immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, suspicion naturally fell on Confederate leaders as being responsible for the great crime. The belief in their complicity faded when the case ...

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  • THE LAND ARMY'S LOST WOMEN
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    THE LAND ARMY'S LOST WOMEN
    EMILY ASHWORTH
    The Women's Land Army are probably one of the lesser-known branches of the women's forces that served their country during World War Two. Thousands of women faced losing their stories to history, but in The Land Army's Lost Women, countless memoirs from members have been captured, to ensure the vital work these ladies carried out on farms across Britain is never forgotten. From...

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  • CHARLES I'S PRIVATE LIFE
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    CHARLES I'S PRIVATE LIFE
    MARK TURNBULL
    The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the civil war and his head. But there is more to Charles than the civil war and his death. To fully appreciate the momentous events that marked the twenty-four years of his reign, and what followed, it's important to understand the man who was at...

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  • CHILDREN OF THE 1940S
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    CHILDREN OF THE 1940S
    MIKE HUTTON
    What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city center kids and their country cousins. All endured strict discipline at school and a shortage of food due to stringent rationing. Bomb sites provided ready made adventure playgro...

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  • TANKS ON THE STREETS?
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    TANKS ON THE STREETS?
    GORDON BARCLAY / LOUISE HEREN
    At 12.08pm on Friday 31 January 1919, Margaret Buchanan drives her tram into George Square in Glasgow's city center. She slows down to avoid the youths and men holding their arms up to stop her; some even jump onto the front of her tram. Swirling around her tram is a sea of heavy-coated men who have been on strike since Monday, demanding a reduction to a forty-hour working week...

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  • THE FORGOTTEN TUDOR ROYAL
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    THE FORGOTTEN TUDOR ROYAL
    BEVERLEY ADAMS
    Brings to life one of Tudor England's most overlooked key players responsible for bringing about the marriage of her son Lord Darnley and Mary, Queen of Scots. As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal dynasty. A favorite of her uncle King Henry VIII and a close friend of Queen Ma...

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  • JANE SEYMOUR
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    JANE SEYMOUR
    CAROL-ANN JOHNSTON
    Biography of the third wife of King Henry VIII of England, and the mother of Edward VI who was Henry's only son. Jane Seymour is the wife of Henry VIII we know the least about, often written off as 'Plain Jane'. Queen of England for just seventeen months, during her life Jane witnessed some of the most extraordinary events ever to take place in English history, later becoming a...

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  • THE KINGMAKER'S WOMEN
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    THE KINGMAKER'S WOMEN
    JULIA A. HICKEY
    The story of the Earl of Warwick's wife Anne Beauchamp and their daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville. They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and extravagant, they lived in style and splendour but were forced to navigate their liv...

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  • CHARLES II'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN
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    CHARLES II'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN
    SARAH-BETH WATKINS
    Charles II had at least twelve illegitimate children that we know of. Although his queen, Catherine of Braganza, fell pregnant several times she was not able to bear any children to full term. The king, who was known for his many mistresses, had his first recognized child out of wedlock in 1649; the child was James Croft who would become Duke of Monmouth and mastermind of an in...

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  • ETHEL GORDON FENWICK
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    ETHEL GORDON FENWICK
    JENNY MAIN
    A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age. When she began her career, nursing was a vocation, unregulated with a dangerous variety of standards and inefficiencies. A gifted nurse, Ethel worked alongside great medical men of the day and, aged 24, she became the youngest matron of St Bartholomew's ...

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