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Charles V: The World Emperor

By Harald Kleinschmidt

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

By Masters, Alexander

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

By Peter Haining

Selection (Oxford English Texts)

By Johnson, Samuel, Hardy, John Philips

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero

By Bruce Wathen

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem (Brexit Trilogy 2)

By Shipman, Tim

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

The Way We Were: Remembering Diana

By Paul Burrell

Roundhead General: Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By John Adair

Court Lady and Country Wife: Royal Privilege and Civil War: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Centurn England

By Lita Rose Betcherman (University of Toronto, Canada)

The Verneys

By A Tinniswood

Nostradamus: The Evidence

By Ian Wilson

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

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer

Oliver Cromwell: King in All But Name, 1653-58

By Roy Sherwood

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

By Alison Weir

Masters of the English Reformation

By Marcus Loane

Collected Works

By Queen Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth Rose

The English Civil War

By Purkiss, Diane

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

By Roy Hattersley