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The pebbled shore: the memoirs of Elizabeth Longford
By Elizabeth Longford. 1986
This autobiography by the author of "Queen Victoria" and "Elizabeth R" includes her memories of Oxford in the 1920s, her…
political involvement in the '30s and '40s, and her life as wife to the Count of Longford, and mother to Rachel Billington and Antonia Fraser, also a royal biographer. 1986.The monarchy: an oral biography of Elizabeth II
By Deborah H Strober, Gerald S Strober. 2002
A biography consisting of interviews with over one hundred friends and associates of the Royal Family. They paint a rich…
portrait of the private and the public life of Queen Elizabeth II, beginning with her birth and continuing through to 2002. 2002.The lost Tudor princess: a life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
By Alison Weir. 2016
A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement…
of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI. 2016.The life of Elizabeth I
By Alison Weir. 2003
No English monarch had a greater influence on his or her people than Queen Elizabeth I. Yet despite her extremely…
public life, she closely guarded her secrets, which are finally revealed in this epic biography. The Life of Elizabeth I is history at its most entertaining and thought-provoking. 2003.The lives of the kings & queens of England
By Antonia Fraser, J. P Brooke-Little. 1995
The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
By William Dalrymple. 2007
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or…
panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture. 2007.The last Stuarts: British royalty in exile
By James Lees-Milne. 1983
A readable account of the luckless Stuart dynasty, featuring the fates of Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I of England,…
and other ancestors of these monarchs. The Scottish-born family supplied England with four kings and two queens. 1984, c1983.The lady in the tower: the fall of Anne Boleyn
By Alison Weir. 2009
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history.…
Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May 1536, and tried and found guilty of high treason on 15 May. Her supposed crimes included adultery with five men, one her own brother, and plotting the King's death. Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence, demolished many romantic myths and popular misconceptions, and rewritten the story of Anne's fall, creating a detailed portrait of the dramatic last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history. 2009.The King's war 1641-1647
By C. V Wedgwood. 1983
"The King's War" takes the story of the great rebellion from 1642-1647. During these years the great battles of Marston…
Moor and Naseby were fought, Rupert emerged as the King's chief general and Montrose conducted his brilliant but forlorn campaign in Scotland. On the parliamentary side the death of Pym was followed by the rise of Cromwell, both in parliament and in the field. Here for the first time "the ordinary people" had an organization through which they could make their influence felt on the politics of the nation. Sequel to "The King's peace, 1637-1641" (DC30908). 1983.The kings and queens of England: a tourist guide
By Jane Murray. 1974
The inheritance of shame: a memoir
By Peter Gajdics. 2017
Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his…
homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past--his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary--Gajdics explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. 2017.Ike's mystery man: the secret lives of Robert Cutler
By Peter Shinkle. 2018
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages…
of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House. 2018.In search of pure lust: a memoir
By Lise Weil. 2018
When Lise Weil came out in 1976, lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a…
culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. But after fifteen years of torrid but ultimately failed relationships, Weil had to admit that desire was also a conduit for childhood wounds--and it tended to trump love, over and over again. When a friend invited her to attend a Zen retreat in the mid-'80s, she was desperate enough to say yes. Her first day of sitting zazen was mostly hell--but, smitten with the (female) roshi, she stuck with it. Ultimately, the dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love. 2018.Napoleon: soldier of destiny
By Michael Broers. 2019
All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This…
is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence. 2019.Jimmy Neurosis: a memoir
By James Oseland. 2019
Before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the California…
suburbs. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of punk, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and journeyed into a vibrant underground world of visionary musicians and artists. With humor and verve, Oseland brings to life the effervescent cocktail of music, art, drugs, and sexual adventure that characterized the end of the seventies. Through his account of how creativity saved his life, he tells a thrilling and uniquely American coming-of-age story. 2019.Young Prince Philip: his turbulent early life
By Philip Eade. 2011
The author recounts the prince's extraordinary upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany and Britain, where he inhabited a strikingly colourful…
milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence and a succession of family tragedies. 2011.L'empereur et la comédienne
By Joan Haslip, Pierre Charras. 1985
François-Joseph, empereur d'Autriche, fut amoureux de la comédienne Katharina Schratt. Cette relation, encouragée par l'impératrice Sissi, commença en 1885 et…
dura jusqu'à la mort du vieil homme, trente ans plus tard. 1985. Titre uniforme: Emperor & the actress.Catherine de Russie
By Zoé Oldenbourg. 1966
Par ce pénétrant essai sur la grande Catherine de Russie, l'auteur veut lever le voile sur les circonstances de sa…
montée et de son accession au trône impérial. Cette longue lutte à trois est une face peu connue de sa vie (1729-1796). La naissance d'une étoile au firmament de l'histoire. 1980, c1966.La Duchesse de Berry: d'après des documents inédits (Présence de l'histoire)
By André Castelot. 1963
Les péripéties de la vie d'une grande dame du 19e siècle marquée d'événements dramatiques, dont l'assassinat de son mari et…
la lutte pour faire reconnaître son fils dans la lignée de la dynastie monarchique. 1963.Diana: once upon a time
By Mary Clarke. 1994
Mary Clarke was nanny to Earl Spencer's children during Diana's adolescence. She tells of a child growing up among family…
tensions which marked her for life, of her cares for others, her need for stability, and the roots of her eating disorder. Written before Diana's death in 1997. 1994.