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Victorian Marriage

Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) was a famous historian and the first editor of the English Historical Review. His intelligence and energy made an impression upon everyone he met. Admired by Queen Victor...

Six Wives

No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, Dav...

The Victim's Fortune

Two reporters from the Financial Times piece together the compelling story of the campaign on the part of a group of attorneys, politicians, and Jewish advocates to root out money looted by the Nazis...

Black and British

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times In this vital re-examinatio...

The Village That Died for England

It was extinction that made Tyneham famous. The fields of the village on the Dorset coast were ideal tank country and when Churchill evacuated it, he vowed that the people could return after the war....

The Hundred Years War: Cursed Kings

Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called one of the great historical works of our time. Cursed Kings tells the story of the destructi...

German Jet Aces of World War 2

The Third Reich's last ditch efforts to combat the massed Allied bomber formations centred around the new jet-powered wonder weapons that were issued to the Jagdwaffe from mid-1944 onwards. Far in a...

Das Geheimnis der Weihnachtsbräuche - von Lichterbäumen, Gänsebraten und Geschenken

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Alle Jahre wieder dringt der Duft von frischgebackenen Platzchen oder Gansebraten aus den heimische...

Tomb of the Golden Bird

In 1922, as her husband Emerson unsuccessfully tries to persuade his rival Howard Carter to turn over digging rights in the Valley of the King to him, Amelia Peabody and her family head for Luxor to s...

The Spy Who Loved

"Documents the story of a first British female agent in World War II, providing coverage of her mixed heritage, daring missions in numerous countries, significant intelligence contributions and subseq...

Fireproof

Beyond the Frontier

Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary was revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance against the Syndicate Worlds. But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Now in command of the First Fl...