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Hyperion
Language
English
Description
When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city's East End instead, serving the desperately poor. In these grim streets, India meets--and saves the life of--London's most notorious gangster, Sid Malone. A hard, wounded man, Malone is...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A definitive account of the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 draws on archival material and interviews with the king's closest friends to detail the role played by the king's opponents and supporters and the resulting scandal at a time when war was imminent.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This alternative history of 1930s Britain examines how fascist sympathizers in the aristocracy nearly helped authoritarianism take hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany, through secret organizations like the Right Club.
4) The king who had to go: Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the hidden politics of the abdication crisis
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Publisher
Biteback Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The previously untold story of the hidden politics that went on behind the scenes during the handling of the Royal abdication crisis of 1936.
The King Who Had to Go describes the harsh realities of how the machinery of government responds when even the King steps out of line. It reveals the pitiless and insidious battles in Westminster and Whitehall that settled the fate of the King and Mrs Simpson. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had to fight against...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Juliet Nicolson pieces together colorful personalities, historic moments, and intimate details to create a social history of the two years following the Great War in Britain. Not since Nicolson's The Perfect Summer have we seen an account that so vividly captures a nation's psyche at a particular moment in history. The euphoria of Armistice Day 1918 vaporizes to reveal the carnage that war has left in its wake. But from Britain's despair emerges new...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
During the mere fifty years from the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 to the election of Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964, Britain survived two world wars, countless conflicts, the General Strike, Suez, and many other dramatic social and political changes. What did not survive these tumultuous years, however, was Britain's longstanding status as a major imperial power. Here, leading historian Robert Blake skillfully charts the...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
At the outbreak of war, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, 39-year-old Winston Churchill, dreams of winning fame and glory. But when the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli leads to his disgrace and eventual resignation, he dreams of redemption instead. Join the future statesman in this dramatic documentary as Churchill tries to rehabilitate his reputation by taking up active service in the British Army, at the risk of getting killed. You'll be fascinated...
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Series
Publisher
Heroes of Liberty
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born to an American mother and a British aristocratic father. From very early on in life he believed that destiny had chosen him for a great task. It turned out he was right. Never in his lifetime was there a greater, more important task than the fight against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Churchill was among the first to understand this. Had he not bravely stood up to Hitler until the United States came...
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Winston Churchill's impressive military and political career suggests that he had been preparing to lead Great Britain out of the darkness of the Second World War his entire life. Conveniently missing from this rendering of his accomplishments is that, long before his wartime triumph, Churchill failed frequently, publicly, and catastrophically. Author J. Furman Daniel argues that the events of May 1915-May 1916 proved the most difficult of all the...
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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1926. Life has not turned out as Deborah had expected. But while occasionally haunted by how the Great War snatched away the love of her life, she quietly and determinedly works away at the staff agency she set up as Miss Deborah Claremont, leaving her alter ego of Lady Deborah at the door. Amid an undercurrent of social unrest and with the General Strike looming ahead, Deborah meets two very different men: Theodore Field MP and Evan Morgan,...
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