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  • Angels of Mercy

    A Women's Hospital on the Western Front, 1914-1918

    They may have been angels of mercy. But they were also angels with attitude – real women, with real guts.This is the little-known story of the gritty and free-spirited women who, in 1914, put aside their fight for the vote to set up a hospital in an abandoned French abbey to treat the appalling injuries sustained on the Western Front. Uniquely in that theatre, the hospital was staffed entirely by ... Read more

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  • Sandringham Days

    The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk, 1862-1952

    by John Matson ...
    This is a fascinating portrait of royal life at Sandringham, from the early life of Albert Edward to the modern day. Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary reports, it is a rich exploration of the private lives of Britain's royal family. From family life at the estate to the first visit of Queen Victoria, the glittering parties of the early twentieth century and all the way up to the death ... Read more

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  • The Duchess of Windsor

    A Memoir

    An intimate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mosley was a frequent guest at their parties in Paris, or at 'the Moulin' in Orsay, where they were neighbours. Written in her inimitable style Diana Mosley paints a remarkable portrait of her friend that is also realistic with regards to her flaws. What was it about her that utterly captivated the heir to the throne and made him renounce it ... Read more

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  • Great Tales from English History

    The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More

    by Robert Lacey ...
    First in a three-volume exploration of English history from the historical consultant of Netflix's award-winning series, The Crown .From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion—a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great Tales from ... Read more

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  • The Facemaker

    A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    A New York Times Bestseller**Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile**Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 1939: The Last Season

    A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and ... Read more

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  • All Quiet on the Home Front

    An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War

    A "fascinating" look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War ( World War One Illustrated).The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades.Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have ... Read more

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  • No Man's Land

    The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

    by Wendy Moore ...
    The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Silence

    Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age

    This account of British life in the wake of World War I is "social history at its very best . . . insightful and utterly absorbing" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great War had left in its wake. Grief and shock overwhelmed the psyche of the British people—but from their despair, new life would slowly ... Read more

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  • Debs at War

    1939-1945

    An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How We Lived Then

    History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

    Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, ... Read more

    $31.39 USD

  • Australian Heroines of World War One

    Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front

    Australian Heroines of World War One tells the story of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renowned and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring.Sister Hilda Samsing from Melbourne became a whistleblower when nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus