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A distillation Gilbert's official biography a critical view of Churchill's warnings and British politics in the 1930s

Bennett' s solution to what he calls "the collapse of family".Has bookstore sticker, dust jacket slightly stained

The story of Ursala Burton, Agent Sonya, whp from 1928 through 1950 was one of the Soviet Union's most successful spies. She eluded the Chinese government the Japanese, thde Nazis, MI5, MI6 and the FBI.

The choices made by the leaders of the major powers in World War and their ultimate impact on the outcome of the war. Analysis of Churchill's decision to fight on after the fall of France, Hitler'sd to invade the Soviet Union, Tokyo' s to risk war, Mussolini's invasion of France, Roosevelt pushibg the United States into all out aid to Britain, Hitler's declaration of war on the United States and the Nazi decision to kill all the Jews.

Winston Churchill was a lone voice in Parliament warning of the threat of Hitler and Nazi Germany. His premier biographer, Martin Gilbert, provides a concise picture of those years which show one of the dangers of how a democracy allowed political convenience and budgetary "necessity" to control defence policy.

Lucy Walter, secretly married to Charles II, his wife as an exile in Holland and Paris, and mother of the Duke of Monmouth - had she other attributes than beauty? Has her character been misrepresented down through the years? E;izabeth Goudge, with good reason to believes so, presents her life story in a fresh and fascinating light. It begins with her childhood at Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, and ends when Charles is restored to the English throne. Originall published in 1970

Kim Philby was the most successful mole the Soviets had in Britain. He rose to be head of counterintelligence, sending to Moscow details of almost every Anglo-American spy operation for 20 years and costing hundreds of lives.

In the summer of 1941, at the heighr of the war in the Western Desert, a bored young officer, David Sterling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules: a small, undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines - the Special Air Service.
Seventy-five years later historan Ben MacIntyre was iven access to the secret archives of the SAS and the result is a thriling true tale of renegade men taking monumental risks.

The story of Operation Market Garden, Montgomery's effort tp seize the Rhine bridge at Arnhem, Holland. Beevor goes into great detail about the deays in the relief column coming to aid the paratroop forces that caprured the town, but not the bridge, and they survived after being being surrounded on three sides and pinned against the river. He also details the German reprisals against the Dutch citizens.

A history of American military actions from Colonial wars with Indians through Vietnam> Good points on causes abd outcomes.

The story of 10 gay or bisexual MPs who were among the first to warn Britain about Hitler. All served in the military during the war at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offense in Briain.

The story of a KGB agent who was a MI6 and his successful extraction from the Soviet Union when threatened with exposure.

Two British naval officers devised a scheme to mislead the Nazis about where the allies would attack Southern Europe. MacIntyre details how they created an officer and planted a dead man in Nazi-friendly Spain. The ruse caused the Germans to shift forces from Sicily to Greece.

It's 1625 and King James is dead and Charles is on the throne. Nat Davy, a dwarf, is presented to the new Queen Henriette Maria, in a pie. Thus begins a story of a little man with a big heart who saves the queen's life when Charles is executed.

Althea's parents were separated and during World WAr II she was sent to live with her grandfather at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park where she becme the friend of the rotal princeses. The diary is a day-by-day account of encounters and activies with the princesses and the Royal Family. Foreword by Isabella Naylor-Leyland who is married to Alathea's nephew.

The autors of a Very Stable Genius examine Trump's final year in year in office which they see as the most unstable. Based on interviews with staff and others this is a valuable contribution to recent American history.

The story of Violet Szabo,widowed at the Battle of El Alamein, who joined the British SOE as a secret agent in France. She was parachuted into Limooges in June 1944 to co-ordinate the the work of the Resistance in the first days after D-Day. Captured ny a panzer division, she was handed over to th Gestapo in Paris. She was sent to Revensbruck concentration camp and executed in January 1945. Szabo was posthumously awared th George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

Late Victorian and Edwardiian Britain enjoys a reputation as an orderly, powerful nation with ever expanding liberties, but under surface things were very different. The Boer War had raised doubts about the country's imperial mission, labor unrest was growing, and the demand for more democracy in the government lead to a major constitutional crisis.

The British Empire reached it's peak in 1923 when the Palestine Mandate became effective, It now covered 1/4 of the earth's land. But cracks had begun appearing in many of the non-white colonies seeking Dominion status. Matthew Parker uses contemporary sources to examine the faults driving the native movements and the changes in attitudes of both natives and colonial officials.