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Modern Ireland 1600-1972

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London : Allen Lane ; 1988.:

Seller ID: BB0242216

ISBN: 0140125108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: g+

Shelf-wear. Former owner's name on front endpaper.
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Churchill's Grand Alliance

By: Charmley, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Harvest Books:

Seller ID: BB0256074

ISBN: 0156004704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

The New York Times Book Review called John Charmley's previous book on Winston Churchill "entertaining, informative, and infuriating." With equally impressive scholarship, eloquence, and wit, Charmley now turns to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957. Churchill carried on the war because of his misguided faith that U.S. help could be enlisted to save the British Empire, contends Charmley. President Roosevelt, ho...
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Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters

By: Daniel Pool

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997., 1997:

Seller ID: BB0245132

ISBN: 0060183659

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

The author of the critically hailed What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew takes readers on an engaging and high-spirited romp through Victorian England to expose the very human side of Dickens, the Brontes, Thackeray, and other great literary figures of the time. Illustrations.
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The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness

By: Gerhard Herm

Price: $7.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1977:

Seller ID: BB0249945

ISBN: 0312127057

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/g

Gandhi & Churchill

By: Herman, Arthur

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2008.:

Seller ID: BB0233280

ISBN: 0553804634

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

Light shelf-wear.
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

By: Herman, Arthur

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Three Rivers Press:

Seller ID: BB0261465

ISBN: 0609809997

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics--contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.

Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and t...
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Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister

By: Hutchinson, Robert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Orion, 2008:

Seller ID: BB0210159

ISBN: 1407244566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

Light shelf-wear.
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Churchill

By: Johnson, Paul

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York : Viking, c2009.:

Seller ID: BB0235374

ISBN: 0670021059

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

A nice clean copy.
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Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants

By: Maloney, Alison

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ST. Martin's Griffin, 2012:

Seller ID: BB0000265100

ISBN: 1250080770

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

UPSTAIRS, an Edwardian home would have been a picture of elegance and calm, adorned with social gatherings and extravagantly envisioned dinner parties.
DOWNSTAIRS, it was a hive of domestic activity, supported by a body of staff painstakingly devoted to ensuring the smooth running of the household.

Brimming with family secrets, society scandal, and of course elaborate parties, dresses, and social customs, the world of an aristocratic Edwardian household as depicted on the hit show Downton Abbey has captivated millions. But what was life really like for the people who kept such a househ...
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