Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron...
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
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Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction...This book tells the story of Lady...
Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
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"[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book...Delicious, occasionally fantastical,...
American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two Special Relationships in the 20th Century
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While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two...
Hope: Entertainer of the Century
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With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly screen character, Bob Hope was the...
In a Guardsman's Boots: A Boy Soldier's Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Caroline Rochford and Paddy Rochford
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When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin's Royal Hibernian Military...
Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity
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Einstein's Jury is the dramatic story of how astronomers in Germany, England, and America competed...
All the Beloved Ghosts
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An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and...
literary fiction
Moses Complex - Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet
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Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was...
Miners' Battalion: A History of the 12th (Pioneers) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1914 - 1918
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'The true nature and functions of a pioneer battalion were never fully understood during the war...