Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's inhabitants. Bringing total destruction, the plague was greeted with incomprehension and a terrified helplessness as it spread from Asia into Europe, reaching England in 1348. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and ...
Providing a social history of London's experiences of war from 1939 to 1945, this book describes the Phoney War, the blackouts, the first evacuations and the horrors of the Blitz, followed in the last days of the war by the terror of the doodlebugs. Through it all, a spirit of defiance united all sections of London society, and the book, based on ...
To be chosen as a Rhodes Scholar is to join the company of a highly select group: former scholars include presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, archbishops, authors, judges, and other important figures. Over 7,000 individuals have received the world's most prestigious scholarship in the century since Cecil John Rhodes, the British-born founder ...
From the acclaimed biographer of Lord Mountbatten and King Edward VIII comes a poignant and illuminating book that explores the world of soldiering through the lives of nine British military men whose wartime experiences span the 20th century. 18 photos.
Drawing on Edward's explicit diaries, on his 2,000 love letters--long assumed to have been destroyed--and on the private and secret papers of Baldwin, CHamberlain, and Churchill, Ziegler enables us to see the man, for the first time, as he was. Written with authority and compassion, here is the truth about Edward: the Prince, the King, and the ...
This is the official biography of Edward VIII. Philip Ziegler has had full access to all the papers in the Royal archives - crucial letters to and from Edward's mother, Queen Mary, and his brother George VI, as well as diaries and letters of others in the household are quoted here for the first time. From his childhood to his restless adolescence ...
A biography of Osbert Sitwell who, along with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, was renowned for his bizarre behaviour and unusual talents. He was also a close friend and sometime sparring partner of T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly.
From Julius Caesar's invasion in AD55 to the unexpected end of Roman rule and the collapse of society in the early fifth century, Roman Britain played a key part in the Roman Empire and the effects of occupation were profound and long-lasting. John Wacher's book begins with a study of the late Iron Age Britain, followed by an examination of the ...
Rupert Hart-Davis (born 1907, died 1999) not only founded a prestigious publishing company; he also involved himself vigorously in literary politics. His story is the story of literary life in the 20th century. He worked for William Heinemann and Jonathan Cape (who sacked him), and numbered among his close friends Duff and Diana Cooper, Peter ...
Rupert Hart-Davis was the quintessential man of letters, standing at the heart of twentieth-century Britain's storied literary and cultural scenes. He is, perhaps, most famous for his best-selling six volume collection of correspondence with mentor George Lyttelton, though the Hart-Davis/Lyttelton letters only scratch the surface of a truly ...
This collection of historical photographs from the Frith Collection, records the great changes that have shaped contemporary Britain. Dating back to the 1860s, the pictures cover every aspect of rural and metropolitan daily life. The accompanying text is by a noted historian and biographer.
Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, this book tells the story of London's experiences of war from 1939 to 1945. It describes the Phoney War, the blackouts, the first evacuations and the horrors of the Blitz, followed in the last days of the war by the terror of the doodlebugs, and recalls the spirit of ...
From 1953 onwards, whenever Mountbatten travelled abroad, he would dictate a long account of the day's events and the people he met. In 1964, for example, he visited India, Burma and Ceylon, Washington and New York, India again for Nehru's funeral, Athens and West Africa. The author has written several books, including "The Black Death", ...
General Kitchener amassed his Anglo-Egyptian troops in Cairo and set off into the desert with a motley arm which, as time went on, included the Grenadier Guards, the Rifle Brigade and kilted Highlanders; The Camel Corps with 5,000 camels, infantry packed into trucks on the newly constructed railway line; and a flotilla of gunboats overloaded with ...
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