Publication date: 2006-06-30
Dewey code: 968
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.36
Review An Unpopular War: From Afkak to Bosbefok - Voices of South African National Servicemen / Zebra Press:
Authors
- Judson Rosengrant
- Edvard Radzinsky
Publication date: 2000-12-31
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.70
Review Rasputin: The Last Word / Phoenix:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-01-06
Dewey code: 508.713
RRP: £9.90
Price: £4.43
Review Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Authors
- John Robson
- John Stuart Mill
Publication date: 2006-04-27
Dewey code: 192
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.42
Review Autobiography (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Clive Mantle
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.99
Review Last Post CD / Orion:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-09-25
Dewey code: 940.5426
RRP: £5.37
Price: £2.21
Review With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa / Presidio Press:
Creator: Archibald Colquhoun
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £16.50
Price: £6.27
Review The Sergeant in the Snow / Northwestern University Press,U.S.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-04-07
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.94
Review Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen / Portrait:
Authors
- Norman L.R. Franks
- Andy Saunders
Dewey code: 940.44941092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.86
Review Mannock: The Life and Death of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO, MC, RAF / Grub Street:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-03-07
Dewey code: 950
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost / Free Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1995-06
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.48
Review War as I Knew it / Houghton Mifflin (Trade):
Publication date: 2006-03-31
Dewey code: 624.092
RRP: £18.00
Price: £9.95
Review The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer / Nonsuch Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98
Review Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens / HarperPerennial:Jane Dunn's double biography Elizabeth and Mary takes as its rich and explosive subject matter the ultimately fatal relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. Throughout much of the second half of the 16th century, these two women found themselves queens of their kingdoms and locked in a battle for possession of the British Isles, which only ended with Mary's eventual downfall and execution at Elizabeth's hands in 1586. As Dunn points out in her meticulous and compelling recreation of the complex relationship between the two women, "from that one act of regicide, a queen killing a fellow queen, has spun a mythology of justification, romance, accusation, and blame that retains its force right to the present day. " Her approach attempts to avoid myth and romance and understand the complex bond that existed between the two women. Elizabeth, the apparent victor, "was haunted by a deep-rooted insecurity as to her own legitimacy", while Mary was pursued by claims of sexual excess and immersion in murderous plots against husbands and enemies, variously seen as "a wronged Madonna or a murderous jezebel. " Dunn elegantly follows the ups and downs of both monarchs as they strive for political power. Mary's tumultuous reign as Queen of Scotland is particularly well handled, as is Elizabeth's agonised vacillation over her decision to execute Mary. In the end, death triumphed over both, and ensured that each was "elevated to an idealised majesty" for very different reasons. Dunn has marshalled an impressive body of evidence that never overwhelms this psychologically nuanced account of these two remarkable women. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-08-24
Dewey code: 358.4122363092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.91
Review Bad Lads: RAF National Service Remembered / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Dave Hickey
Publication date: 2006-02-24
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £75.00
Price: £52.49
Review Andy Warhol: "Giant" Size / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-02
Dewey code: 956.054092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £0.80
Review Defy the Stars / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Dan Cruickshank
Edition: 2006 Edition
Publication date: 2006-10-05
Dewey code: 624.092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.74
Review Brunel: The Man Who Built the World (Phoenix Press) / Phoenix:
Edition: Us
Publication date: 2008-02-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.50
Review An Extraordinary Life: Sir Edmund Hillary / Penguin:
Creator: Harry Zohn
Publication date: 1964-06-15
Dewey code: 838.91209
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.78
Review The World of Yesterday / University of Nebraska Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-27
RRP: £20.00
Price: £7.23
Review Mary Tudor: The First Queen / Portrait:
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