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A Brief History of the House of Windsor: The Making of a Modern Monarchy by Michael Paterson
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the homely and fam ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II by Michael Paterson
Category: Biography
Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more
Amazing and Extraordinary Facts James bond by Michael Paterson
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts
Inside Dickens' London by Michael Paterson
Category: History
An account of 19th-century London, so well known from Charles Dickens' much-loved novels. It draws on descriptions of life in the capital from original letters, diaries and newspapers, as well as Dickens' own social commentary, to paint a vivid portrait of a city undergoing massive social changes.
Life in Victorian Britain (A Brief History series) by Michael Paterson
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own and it was only dur ...Show more
Nicholas II, the Last Tsar by Michael Paterson
Category: History
The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to his country, he was weak, sentimenta ...Show more
Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes: Masters and Servants in the Golden Age by Michael Paterson
Category: History
The Victorian and Edwardian eras in the run-up to 1914 marked the golden age of the English country house, when opulence and formality attained a level that would never be matched again. The ease of these perfect settings for flirtation and relaxation was maintained by a large and well-trained staff of ...Show more
Voices from the Code Breakers by Michael Paterson
Category: Fiction
This book takes a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields. From the British cryptologists to the European resistance fighters, this book uncovers the stories of extraordinary people and their chance finds, lucky accidents, dogged deter ...Show more
Voices of the Codebreakers by Michael Paterson
Category: History
Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of concealed and closely guarded information. Smuggled written messages, secretly transmitted wireless signals, or months of eavesdropping on radio traffic meant ...Show more
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