Ever Glorious: The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936 -46
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The Crookenden brothers - Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty. Their...
The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair
Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorrill
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The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century. The Tory War Minister, John...
Please God, Which Side is Up?
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"Please God, Which Side is Up?" is the memoir of an ordinary family man, who relates here snatches...
Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis
Robert Beaken and Rowan Williams
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The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British...
James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633 - 1701
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James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been...
Oedipus the King: A New Translation
Sophocles and Robert Bagg
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Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, "Oedipus the King" is the ancient world's most...
The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374
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The island of Cyprus was conquered from its Byzantine ruler by Richard I of England in 1191 during...
The Taming of the Queen
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Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse...Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old...
This Was a Man
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This Was a Man is the captivating final instalment of the Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven...
Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril
Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants
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The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major...