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Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors But Were Afraid to Ask

By Terry Breverton

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

By Garrett Mattingly

Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero

By John G. Cummins

Hostage to Fortune: Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

By Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart

Sir Walter Raleigh

By Robert Lacey

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper - Rebel Physician

By Benjamin Woolley

The Children of Henry VIII

By Alison Weir

Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

By Linda Levy Peck

The Essays (Penguin Classics)

By Bacon, Francis, Pitcher, John

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

Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy

By Lacey Baldwin-Smith

The Deans: Cathedral Life, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By Trevor Beeson

Philip of Spain

By Henry Kamen

The Princes in the Tower

By Elizabeth Jenkins

Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth

By A. Hunt, A. Whitelock

HENRY V111 PERS.& POLITICS

A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture

By Alister E. McGrath

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Luther

By Heiko Oberman

The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

By Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham), Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms, Tom Egerton

The Lost: A search for six of six million

By Daniel Mendelsohn

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

Peter the Great

By Stephen J. Lee

Perkin

By Ann Wroe

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

By Leo Damrosch

A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture

By Alister E. McGrath (University of Oxford)

Edward VI

By Jennifer Loach, George Bernard, Penry Williams