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Books : History : Countries & Regions : Europe

• Henry: Virtuous Prince

  David Starkey

  
  
   

• A History of Modern Britain

  Andrew Marr

  
  
   

• Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

  Mary Beard

  
  
   

• The Duchess

  Amanda Foreman

  
  
   

• The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (Allen Lane History)

  Richard J. Evans

  
  
   

• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge)

  John O'Farrell

  
  
   

• The Discovery of France

  Graham Robb

  
  
   

• Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, Britain's Oldest Man and the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

  Henry Allingham

  
  
   

• Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49

  
  
   

• Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)

  David Kynaston

  
  
   

• The Six Wives of Henry VIII

  Alison Weir

  
  
   

• Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

  Amanda Foreman

  
  Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive and extravagant. Acquainted fairly young with Charles James Fox, her move from parties to Parties led her to become the intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School For Scandal. But, luckily for her biographer, she also had weaknesses that were to taint her life. As gin gripped the masses, so gambling enthralled the aristocracy. By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts. Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that was personal relationships for the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the Duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into his bed and her heart). She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. An impressive debut, in every sense. --David Vincent
  
   

• Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

  Adam Nicolson

  
  
   

• The Boleyn Inheritance

  Philippa Gregory

  
  
   

• The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919

  Mark Thompson

  
  
   

• Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler

  
  
   

• Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918

  Thomas Cairns Livingstone

  
  
   

• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'

  
  
   

• The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

  Orlando Figes

  
  
   

• Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945

  Nicholas Rankin