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"On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--and willing to fight to the end. ...Erik...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 596 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Prince Charles brings to life the real man, with all of his ambitions, insecurities, and convictions. It begins with his lonely childhood, in which he struggled to live up to his father's expectations and sought companionship from the Queen Mother and his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten. It follows him through difficult years at school, his early love affairs, his intellectual quests, his entrepreneurial pursuits, and his intense search for spiritual...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created...
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Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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401 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"'Nicolson's chronicle is a fine book. Readers will be duly awed by his delicately layered story'--The New York Times Book Review; In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad for a small cluster of three islands--The Shiants (Gaelic meaning 'holy' or 'enchanted')--which lie east of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Sheer black cliffs drop five hundred feet into the cold, dark, rip currents of the Minch, lounging seals crowd at their feet...
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"--
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (ca. 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Recounts the true story of how speech therapist Lionel Logue helped the Duke of York overcome his lifelong stammer and explores how their unlikely friendship influenced both their lives.
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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x, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now,...
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Little, Brown and company
Pub. Date
1945
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3 p., l., [3]-384 p. 20 cm.
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English
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Horatio Hornblower returns to sea with the rank of Commodore in command of a small squadron during the Napoleonic wars, and the fate of Europe hangs on the outcome of his mission.
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"Henry VIII, anxious about the consequences of dying without a male heir, is denied permission to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn, but the power struggle between the Church and the Crown is mediated by astute politician Thomas Cromwell, who manages to get the king what he wants while keeping his eye on the prize of a free England"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 2
Publisher
Back Bay books
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Relates Horatio's adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.
12) A column of fire
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English
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International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
13) The horseman
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Series
West Country trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
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"Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Leo, a talented rider and son of the under keeper to the head groundskeeper, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter, Charlotte"--
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Presents an account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to the North American British colonies, evaluating its diversity, the survival struggles of immigrants, and their relationships with the indigenous populations of the Eastern seaboard.
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Language
English
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Reconstructs the history of five days, from Friday, May 24, 1940 through Tuesday, May 28, 1940, during which Winston Churchill and his cabinet members struggled to determine the extent of their war responsibilities, and made a decision that saved Britain, Europe, and Western civilization.
16) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
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Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
18) Operation Columba: the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II.
Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part...
19) Cuckoo song
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something is terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family.
20) The hundred days
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st American ed.
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p. cm.
Language
English
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Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to...
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