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  • The Penguin History of Britain

    A Monarchy Transformed, Britain 1630-1714

    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of seventeenth-century Britons to the core. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)

    An Abbreviated Life

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless opposed by men with far fewer scruples and less consistency who for ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)

    An Abbreviated Life

    Narrated by John Sackville ...
    Series series

    Unabridged

    3 hours 29 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville.The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War"

    How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

    Narrated by Don Leslie ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Charles II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Star King

    by Clare Jackson ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulersCharles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicated mix of lasciviousness, cynicism and luxury. His father's execution and his own many years of exile made him a ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • William IV (Penguin Monarchs)

    A King at Sea

    by Roger Knight ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but he was overpromoted at an early age and saw his years of active service marked by a series of calamities. He was also notorious for his mounting debts and his long relationship with the actress Mrs Jordan, with whom he ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Reign of Anarchy

    by Carl Watkins ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another problem, too: Stephen himself.With the nobility of England and Normandy anxious about the ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery

    Britain 1066-1284

    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English became a subject race, dominated by a Norman-French dynasty and aristocracy. This book shows how the English domination of the kingdom was by no means a foregone conclusion.The struggle for mastery in ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The Last Manchu

    The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

    by Henry Pu Yi ...
    In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

    How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs)

    by James Ross ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Henry III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Simple and God-Fearing King

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Henry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He was on the throne for 56 years and during this time England was transformed from being the private play-thing of a French speaking dynasty into a medieval state in which the king answered for his actions to an English parliament, which emerged during Henry's lifetime.Despite Henry's central ... Read more

    $6.19 USD