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Dante

By Alessandro Barbero, Allan Cameron

Peter the Great

By Paul Bushkovitch

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

By Daisy Dunn

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland: Lord President of the Commons

By D. M. Loades

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen

By Josephine Wilkinson

Shakespeare's Wife

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

Chernobyl Strawberries

By Vesna Goldsworthy

Alastair Campbell

By Peter Oborne

On the Marshes: A journey into England's waterlands

By Carol Donaldson

The Complete Poems

By Thomas Hardy, James Gibson

God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

By Christopher Hill

Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy

By Lacey Baldwin-Smith

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

Henry VI

By Bertram Wolffe

Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588

By Wallace T. MacCaffrey

Philip of Spain

By Henry Kamen

Edward IV

By Charles Ross

Rommel: Leadership Lessons from the Desert Fox

By Charles Messenger, Wesley K. Clark, Klaus Naumann

Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England

By J. Peakman

The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II

By Gregory A. Freeman

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

By J. Frakes

Hitler: A Chronology of his Life and Time

By M. Hauner

Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship

By D. Cook, A. Culley

Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe

By S. Jansen

PORTRAITS OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN: FAMILY, MARRIAGE,AND POLITICS IN ENGLAND 1225-1350

By Linda E. Mitchell

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

David Livingstone

By M. Buxton