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Historical Biographies 1501-1700

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Louis XIV

By Geoffrey Treasure (Formerly Harrow School, London, UK)

The Debate on the English Reformation

By Rosemary O'Day

King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Classics S)

By Sturluson, Snorri, Palsson, HERMANN, Magnusson, Magnus

The Life and Times of Christopher Columbus

Richelieu (Profiles In Power)

By Knecht, R.

The Lion House: Discover the life of Suleyman the Magnificent, the most feared man of the sixteenth century

By Christopher de Bellaigue

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

Benjamin Franklin

By Edmund S. Morgan

The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story

By Catherine Fletcher

King James VI of Scotland, I of England

By Antonia Fraser

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

Nostradamus: The Evidence

By Ian Wilson

The English Civil War

By Purkiss, Diane

Remembering D-Day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

By Martin Bowman

The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45

By Peter Haining

The Genius in My Basement: The Biography of a Happy Man. Alexander Masters

By Masters, Alexander

Charles V: The World Emperor

By Harald Kleinschmidt

The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee

By Glyn Parry

Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

By Paddy Ashdown

William Tyndale: A Biography

By David Daniell

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Grub Street Irregular

By Jeremy Lewis

Mary Queen Of Scots

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford

By Julia Fox

William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life: Martyrdom, betrayal and the English Bible

By Brian Moynahan

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre