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On the Front Line: True World War I Stories
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'. It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of... more...
Tommy?s War: A First World War Diary 1913?1918
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableThe extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s. more...
The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten (Text Only)
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableThis edition does not include illustrations. ?Kavanagh and Seldon?s view of 20th-century British politics from behind the doors of Number10 should be compulsory reading. ?The Powers Behind the Prime Minister? rattles along like some great pageant on the theme of ?Yes, Minister?.? Sue Cameron, Sunday Telegraph more...
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 115.00Comprising eleven essays by leading specialists in the field, this volume ranges from the 1660s to the mid-eighteenth century, deals with the history of ideas as well as political and religious history, and covers not just England, Scotland and Ireland but also explores the Atlantic and European contexts. Covering high politics and low politics, Tory... more...
The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 115.00This volume brings together new essays by a group of leading scholars of the seventeenth-century revolutionary period in England and will provide readers with a provocative and stimulating introduction to current research. All the essays engage with one or more of three themes which lie at the heart of recent debate: the importance of the connection... more...
Tony Blair
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 21.86Last updated in 2001, John Rentoul's acclaimed Tony Blair: Prime Minister returns with an extensive new assessment of Blair's premiership after '9/11' - from the Iraq war and relations with Gordon Brown to his departure from Downing Street and political afterlife. 'Well written, thoroughly researched and informed by the balanced and subtle... more...
A Brief History of the House of Windsor
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the homely and familiar Windsor. By redefining its loyalties to... more...
Henry V
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign of nine and a half years, he restored the reputation of the English monarchy (both at home and abroad) and united the English people behind the crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who was the man behind these achievements?... more...
Abandoning America
Boydell & Brewer 2013;Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some went back quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America behind. They reached... more...
Stryker and the Angels of Death (Ebook)
John Murray 2013; US$ 4.52In this standalone short story, a prequel to Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers The Civil War Chronicles , we meet battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker, 'the Sharpe of the Civil War', as a young soldier. 'Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post more...









