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  • Garvin of the Observer

    de David Ayerst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Journalism
    Originally published in 1985. One of the most distinguished editors in the history of British journalism, J. L. Garvin created the Sunday newspaper as we now know it. His career at the Observer spanned the golden age of the British press when newspapers had a powerful influence on political affairs.Like the other great editors of the first half of the twentieth century Garvin clashed with his ... Leer más

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  • The Crown in Crisis

    Countdown to the Abdication

    The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without the woman he loved—the notorious American divorcee Wallis ... Leer más

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  • Zeppelin Nights

    London in the First World War

    de Jerry White ...
    ‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their way to the front and wounded men were brought back to be treated in London’s hospitals. At night, London plunged ... Leer más

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  • The King Who Had To Go

    Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis

    The previously untold story of the hidden politics that went on behind the scenes during the handling of the Royal abdication crisis of 1936.The King Who Had to Go describes the harsh realities of how the machinery of government responds when even the King steps out of line. It reveals the pitiless and insidious battles in Westminster and Whitehall that settled the fate of the King and Mrs Simpson ... Leer más

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  • George VI (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Dutiful King

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Written by Philip Ziegler, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, George VI is part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible formatIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the title of 'George the Dutiful'.Throughout his life, George dedicated himself to the pursuit of what he thought he ... Leer más

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  • Closet Queens

    Some 20th Century British Politicians

    de Michael Bloch ...
    Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era.As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were obliged either to repress their sexual feelings or else lead double lives, indulging their tastes ... Leer más

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  • Great Contemporaries

    Series Libro 3 - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works
    Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman.Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of "his mastery of historical and biographical description." Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill's profiles of many of the major figures of ... Leer más

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  • The Reign and Abdication of Edward VIII

    de Michael Bloch ...
    Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's short reign.Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality, and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who mistrusted his modernity and popular touch, but also explainable by the fact that he did not really want to be king or fight for ... Leer más

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  • Baldwin

    de Roy Jenkins ...
    First published in 1984, this is the first biography of Stanley Baldwin for more than ten years, although there had been four in the preceding decade. This is strange, for Baldwin has recently begun to swim back into fashion. In part this is a function of growing nostalgia for his period of power, the 1920s and 1930s. Still more, however, it is " because Mrs Thatcher's brand of Conservative ... Leer más

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  • Supermac

    The Life of Harold Macmillan

    de D R Thorpe ...
    Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politican. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in the First World War and by his work as an MP during the Depression, he was a Tory rebel - an outspoken backbencher, opposing the economic policies of the 1930s and the appeasement policies of his own ... Leer más

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  • The Last Great War

    British Society and the First World War

    What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of ... Leer más

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  • Young Titan

    The Making of Winston Churchill

    In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill’s early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that both nearly undid him but also forged the character ... Leer más

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