The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923: `In the Heart of Enemy Lines' by Gerard Noonan
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
Between 1919 and 1923, Ireland was engulfed by violence as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla campaign against the British state and later fellow Irishmen and women in pursuit of an Irish Republic. Police barracks and government offices were attacked and burned, soldiers and policemen we ...Show more
White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
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Category: British
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever.Charles I's re ...Show more
Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom (HB) by Thomas E. Ricks
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Category: British
Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the fi gures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. ...Show more
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
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Category: British
London, early May 1940- Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a d ...Show more
Protest!: Stories of Resistance by Sara Maitland
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Category: British
When does a riot become a revolution? When does a demonstration of dissent tip over into a moment of unstoppable political change? This book asks 20 authors and 20 historians to bring crucial moments of British protest to life. Following fictional characters, caught up in the momentum of nonfictional mo ...Show more
White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
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Category: British
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The Civil Wars set family against family, friend against friend, and its casualties were immense iiii-- a greater proportion of the population than in World War I. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Ch ...Show more
Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I : The Overbury Murder by Anne Somerset
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Category: British
Richard III - Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
The last Plantagenet king remains one of England's most famous and controversial monarchs. There are few parallels in English history that can match the drama of Richard III's reign, witnessed in its full bloody intensity. A dedicated brother and loyal stalwart to the Yorkist dynasty for most of his ear ...Show more
Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
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Category: British
In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. The country was in need of a new hero. Magnetic, narcissistic, Edward found himself on the throne, and alongside him h ...Show more
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
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Category: British
In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, ...Show more
Gef ! - The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe
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Category: British
"I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" During the mid-1930s, British and overseas newspapers were full of incredible stories about Gef, a "talking mongoose" or "man-weasel" who had allegedly appeared in the home of the Irvings, a farming family in a remote district of the Isle ...Show more
The Crown: The Inside Story by Robert Lacey
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Category: British
'The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.'Netflix's original series The Crown painted a unique and intimate portrait of Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This official companion to the show is an in-depth exploration of the early years of Elizabeth II's ti ...Show more