|
There are 720 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in Great Britain - Used Books
Page 1 of 36 next
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky
Publisher Comments
Queen Elizabeth I and England's First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your price: $6.95
Used - Trade Paper
Sisters the Saga of the Mitford Family
by Mary S Lovell
Publisher Comments
This is the Story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful... ( read more)
List Price $18.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
by Alison Weir
Publisher Comments
The acclaimed historian and bestselling author of "Eleanor of Aquitaine" turns her expert eye on the dark reign of another notorious and charismatic medieval monarch, Queen Isabella of France.... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $10.50
Used - Trade Paper
Churchill
by Roy Jenkins
Publisher Comments
Includes bibliographical references (p. [953]-957) and index.... ( read more)
List Price $22.00
Your price: $6.95
Used - Trade Paper
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library)
by Amanda Foreman
Publisher Comments
The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... ( read more)
List Price $15.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
by Carlo Deste
Publisher Comments
Carlo D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord: a descendant of Marlborough who, despite never having risen above the rank of lieutenant colonel, came eventually... ( read more)
List Price $39.95
Your price: $28.00
Used - Hardcover
Richard and John: Kings at War
by Frank Mclynn
Publisher Comments
Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies. Frank McLynn has returned to the original sources to discover what Richard and John, the warring sons... ( read more)
List Price $18.95
Your price: $12.95
Used - Trade Paper
My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter
by Anna R Beer
Publisher Comments
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280) and index.... ( read more)
List Price $24.95
Your price: $8.21
Used - Hardcover
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
by Adam Sisman
Publisher Comments
James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot and... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
Statecraft: Strategies for Changing World
by Margaret Thatcher
Publisher Comments
In Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher, a unique world figure, discusses global military, political, and economic challenges of the twenty0first century. The former British Prime Minister brings her unrivaled political experience to comment on the threats that... ( read more)
List Price $34.95
Your price: $8.95
Used - Hardcover
The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir
Publisher Comments
Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I reigned prosperously for more than forty years, from 1558 until her death in 1603. During her rule, however, she remained an extremely private person, keeping her own... ( read more)
List Price $17.00
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Story of England
by Christopher Hibbert
Publisher Comments
This is the ideal introduction to English history for all readers. Concise, informative, highly readable and beautifully illustrated, it presents in a flowing narrative the broad outline of England's political, economic and cultural history from... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (P.S.)
by David Starkey
Publisher Comments
In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the "Virgin Queen, " recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original documents to depict... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper
The British Isles: A History of Four Nations
by Hugh Kearney
Publisher Comments
This is a unique account of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the twentieth century, distinguished by its stress on the fact that English history forms only part of a wider "history of four nations." To ignore this wider dimension is to distort... ( read more)
List Price $18.99
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper
Victoria's Daughters
by Jerrold Packard
Publisher Comments
Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her... ( read more)
List Price $15.95
Your price: $10.95
Used - Trade Paper
Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War
by Adam Nicolson
Publisher Comments
Quarrel with the King tells the story of the first four earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants, and allies, following their high and glamorous trajectory from the 1520s through 1650—the most turbulent and dramatic years of... ( read more)
List Price $27.95
Your price: $18.50
Used - Hardcover
Nelson: The Immortal Memory
by Stephen Howarth
Publisher Comments
Here, from two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians, is an immensely human portrait of Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant and most honored naval leader Britain has ever known. A great seaman and tactician who possessed an extraordinary ability... ( read more)
List Price $19.95
Your price: $3.35
Used - Trade Paper
Winston Churchill (Penguin Lives Biographies)
by John Keegan
Publisher Comments
When today's world leaders need inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often turn to Winston Churchill, quoting him and citing his heroic example. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a soldier... ( read more)
List Price $19.95
Your price: $6.95
Used - Hardcover
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
by Michael Barone
Publisher Comments
The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal... ( read more)
List Price $25.95
Your price: $17.95
Used - Hardcover
The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland
by Gwen Kenned Neville
Publisher Comments
A theoretical and sociological exploration of the relationship between law and society, this book constructs an approach to law that integrates legal theory with sociological approaches to law. Law is generally understood to be a mirror of society--a... ( read more)
List Price $56.95
Your price: $3.70
Used - Trade Paper
|
see more featured titles
|  |
|
Don't Miss