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General History

By Douglas V. Verney and Michael Curtis, Editor. 1966, Harper & Row, 234pp. Harpers Comparative Government Series. (Good. Some high-lighting)

Volume 14 of the Oxford History of England.

By Frederick C. Dietz. 1937 (1948), Macmillan, 813pp. Maps, 3rd Edition. (Good+, no DJ. Moisture-related fading on open edge of front and back boards, with very slight moisture-related warping of some pages, otherwise book is solid, with tight binding, Good hinges, no markings and no warping of boards. A Good reference copy of the)

By Kenneth O. Morgan. 1988, Oxford University Press, 746pp. (Good+)

By Phil Holland (text). 1998, True North Books, 100pp, 12x8". A nostalgic look at the city of Hartlepool, England, as seen in vintage photos from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Each photo is accompanies by an extended caption. (Near Fine)

Arizona

By Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins. 1983 (1984), Norton, 384pp, 9x6". Report on the brief 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, by a journalist who covered the war for the London Evening Standard. U.S. Edition. Photo inserts, maps. (VG)

By Martin Middlebrook. 1987, Penguin, 432pp. Revised edition. "Middlebrook has sought out all the available evidence from documentary and personal sources on both sides and comes to some controversial conclusions about the conflict. His book includes new material on the Exocet attacks on British ships, on the loss of the Coventry and the Sir Galahad tragedy and on the controversial sinking of the General Belgrano." (Good+)

By William Manchester. 1988 (1989), Dell, 768pp. Biography of Churchill during the years when England faced the German threat alone. (Near Fine. Gift inscription on dedication page, else unmarked)

By Ralph G. Martin. 1971 (1972), Signet, 464pp, 7x4". Bio. Of mother of Winston Churchill. (Fair. Water-damaged but readable)

By Rancolph S. Churchill. 1966, Hought Mifflin, 629pp. (VG)

(5/24/00) - Also listed on Britain and Ireland: Travel and Geography.

For Churchill during the war years.

By Viscount Churchill. 1964 (1965), Coward McCann, 202pp. "In this candid, witty, celebrity-filled memoir, the black-sheep Churchill tells how he fled the pomp and scandal in the shadow of Blenheim Castle and learned to live by his wits in the new world." (Good- in Good DJ in wraps. Xlib with usual markings. Coffee-like stains on a dozen pages)

By David Walder. 1978, Dial Press, 538pp. Biography of British naval hero Admiral Lord Nelson. (VG, no DJ)

By J.A. Froude. 1890, Harper & Brothers (New York), 267pp, 7.5x5.2". From the series "The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria." (VG, no DJ)

By Robert Blake. 1967, St Martin's Press, 819pp. Biography of Queen Victoria's most colorful prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli. (VG in poor DJ. DJ is torn along seams but its text is complete)

By Alistair Horne. 1989, Viking, 741pp. Second of two-part biography of the UK politician who was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. (First American Edition)

By Hilary Hook. 1987, St Martins, 206pp. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger . (Library discard with usual markings. VG+ in VG+ DJ in mylar wraps)

By Jasper Ridley. 1970, E P Putnam, 689pp. (Library discard with usual markings. VG, no DJ)

By Michael Burn. 1988, Andre Deutsch, 249pp. "The story of the love affair between wounded Spitfire ace Richard Hillary and Mary Booker, a woman 20 years his senior. Hillary was the author of the wartime classic, The Last Enemy." (VG+ in Good DJ)

By Nicholas Wapshott and George Brock. 1983, Futura (UK), 287pp, 7x4". Biography of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher. (VG+)

By Lord Carrington. 1988, Collins, 406pp. "A member at one time or another of every Conservative administration from Winston Churchill s formed in 1951 to Margaret Thatcher s in 1979, he held office in the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Defence and as First Lord of the Admiralty; and he served in the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords, as Defence Secretary, as Energy Minister and as Foreign Secretary." (Near Fine in VG+ DJ)

By Geoffrey Chaucer. 1387 (1977), Penguin, 504pp. Medieval literature. "Reveals a picture of English life in the fourteenth century". (Good+)

By Jeffrey Gantz (translator). 1976, Dorset, 310pp. Eleven medieval Welsh tales from the 13th century. (VG in VG DJ)

By Thomas Flanagan. 1979, Holt Rinehart Winston, 516pp. Historical novel based on a 1798 uprising in Ireland which was briefly assisted by the French. (VG+ in Fair DJ)

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