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Thomas Paine, though an Englishman by birth, was a distinguished public figure in both 18th-century France and the United States. The two books ... More

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In "The Last Lion," the first volume of Manchester's two-volume biography, the Winston Spencer Churchill story is one of high adventure, bitter ... More

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Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude ... More

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Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the ... More

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With the publication of the eighth and final volume of his official life of Sir Winston Churchill in 1988, Martin Gilbert was freed to devote himself ... More

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Arguably the most eloquent statesman of his time, Sir Winston Churchill delivered speeches that have inspired generation after generation. In this ... More

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'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer ... More

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Under the later Stuarts, England became a major European military power, English armies and navies grew to an unprecedented size, civilian ... More

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"A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New ... More

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Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and ... More

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First published in 1867, this book is the most famous, the most influential and the most enduring assessment of the British parliamentary system, and ... More

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Written by John F. Kennedy in 1940 when he was still in college and reprinted in 1961 when he was president, this book is an appraisal of the tragic ... More

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This concise, accessible, and balanced historical analysis of the Thatcher years and their consequences analyzes many controversial aspects of ... More

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In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with ... More

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A well-known and respected author team provide an authoritative, original and up-to-date introduction to British Politics. In contrast to other books ... More

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Throughout his six decades in the public eye, Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words. In his speeches, books and newspaper and ... More

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The step-by-step decline into war, with Churchill becoming prime minister as "the tocsin was about to sound."

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Morley's authorised biography of Gladstone (1809-1898) was published in 1903, and is a landmark of political biography. Four times Liberal Prime ... More

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'Niccolo Machiavelli is misunderstood,' argues Jonathan Powell in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher's influential ... More

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A classic account, first published in 1935, of the dramatic upheaval and political change that overwhelmed England in the period 1910-1914.

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First published in 1939 Parliament sought to analyse the parliamentary institutions of the United Kingdom as pieces of constitutional machinery.

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The "long 18th century" in British history, the period from 1688 to 1832, defies easy characterization. To examine its political and social history ... More

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This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of ... More

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