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King's Mistress, Queen's Servant(2010) BORMAN, TRACYHenrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mary Queen of Scots(2008) WEIR, ALISONOn the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. For this reason Elizabeth I had opposed his family's longstanding wish to marry him to Mary Stuart, whVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Last Days of Hitler(2012) TREVOR ROPER, HUGHThe classic account of Hitler's fall from power, first published in 1947, reissued with a striking cover.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Autobiography(1989) ROBSON, JOHN,MILL, JOHN STUARTAn autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1806-73). This title describes the pressures placed on him by his childhood, the mental breakdown he suffered as a young man, his struggle to understand a world of feelings and emotions far removed from his father's sVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance(2013) GRADY, STEPHEN,WRIGHT, MICHAELAn extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
War Child(2010) JAL, EMMANUELThe extraordinary and inspirational story of a young boy soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mandela(2011) SAMPSON, ANTHONYWidely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Fears of Henry IV(2008) MORTIMER, IANIn June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. In 1399, at the age of thirty-two, he was enthusiastically greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the insecure and tyrannical King RichardVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Henry VIII's Last Victim(2008) CHILDS, JESSIEHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Disraeli(2014) HURD, DOUGLAS,YOUNG, EDWARDA 'gripping, succinct and lethal' (Matthew Parris, THE TIMES) reappraisal of the life of Benjamin Disraeli, the most celebrated and colourful politician of the nineteenth century.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Robert Peel(2008) HURD, DOUGLASLife of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Colour Bar(2007) WILLIAMS, SUSANSir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into exile in England, banVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mistress Of Charlecote(2002) FAIRFAX-LUCY, A.A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys: A Selection (Penguin Classics)(2003) PEPYS, SAMUELThe 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London. This book offers an eyewitness account along with lively descriptions of the author's socializing, hisVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Catherine of Aragon(2011) TREMLETT, GILESCatherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir - providing Jane Seymour or the eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty with a passion she had inherited from her parents, IsabellaVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Cypress Tree(2012) MOHAMMADI, KAMINThe story of three generations of Iranian women - Kamin, her mother and her grandmother - which portrays the history of twentieth century IranVezava: Mehka18,21 €