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Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II

By Reuel Golden

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Published 25-Nov-2012


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In honor of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - 60 years on the throne, this title celebrates the extraordinary private and public life of Her Majesty. It tells her royal story through hundreds of photographs taken from multiple archives in the United Kingdom (including the Royal Collection), Continental Europe, and the United States.


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Wives and Stunners

By Henrietta Garnett

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Published 30-Aug-2012


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A vivid, richly observed and compellingly readable account of the women who held the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in thrall.


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Twelve Caesars

By Matthew Dennison

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Published 01-Mar-2013


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An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the 'twelve Caesars'.


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Last Man Standing

By Jack Straw

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Published 27-Sep-2012


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The autobiography of Jack Straw - an MP for thirty-three years and at the heart of government throughout the longest-serving Labour administration in history


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Nelson: A Dream of Glory

By John Sugden

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Published 06-Sep-2012


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Offers an account of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. This book gives us the private as well as the public man, it combines scholarship with a brilliant and compelling style.


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Map That Changed the World

By Simon Winchester

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Published 04-Jul-2002


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Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles. This title tells his story.


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Bertie

By Jane Ridley

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Published 30-Aug-2012


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Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian Age but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power in 1901. He was only king for the last nine years of his life. The eldest son of Victoria and Albert, Bertie was bullied by both his parents.


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Passage of Power

By Robert Caro

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Published 14-Jun-2012


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A work on American President Lyndon Johnson that spans the years 1958 to 1964. It documents Johnson's extraordinary early presidency, forcing previously abandoned bills on the budget and civil rights through an uncooperative Congress and striving to achieve what he saw to be the highest standard of office.


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After Auschwitz

By Eva Schloss

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Published 11-Apr-2013


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A Story of heartbreak and survival by the step-sister of Anne Frank


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Testament of Youth

By Vera Brittain

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Published 20-Apr-1978


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* A unique record of one woman's experience of twenty-five of the most cataclysmic years in modern history - and a Virago Classic bestseller - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge


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