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MacColl, Gail; Wallace, Carol McD. To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery Workman Publishing Company 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114293. ISBN #0761171959 / 9780761171959. (filed under: England ) *
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MacColl, Gail; Wallace, Carol McD. To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery Workman Publishing Company 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114293. ISBN #0761171959 / 9780761171959. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles--just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord . Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details--plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette-- To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.
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Macdonald, Janet From Boiled Beef To Chicken Tikka: 500 Years Of Feeding The British Army Frontline Books 2014 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153155. ISBN #1848327307 / 9781848327306. (filed under: England ) *
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Macintyre, Ben The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief Broadway Books 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161431. ISBN #0307886468 / 9780307886460. (filed under: England ) *
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Macintyre, Ben The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief Broadway Books 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161431. ISBN #0307886468 / 9780307886460. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . . --Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem" The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Suave, cunning Worth learned early that the best way to succeed was to steal. And steal he did. Following a strict code of honor, Worth won the respect of Victorian society. He also aroused its fear by becoming a chilling phantom, mingling undetected with the upper classes, whose valuables he brazenly stole. His most celebrated heist: Gainsborough's grand portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire--ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales--a painting Worth adored and often slept with for twenty years. With a brilliant gang that included "Piano" Charley, a jewel thief, train robber, and playboy, and "the Scratch" Becker, master forger, Worth secretly ran operations from New York to London, Paris, and South Africa--until betrayal and a Pinkerton man finally brought him down. In a decadent age, Worth was an icon. His biography is a grand, dazzling tour into the gaslit underworld of the last century. . . and into the doomed genius of a criminal mastermind.
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Mallinson, Allan The Making of the British Army: From the English Civil War to the War on Terror Bantam Press 2009 paperback. Previous owner notations.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165733. ISBN #0593065182 / 9780593065181. (filed under: England ) *
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Maloney, Alison Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants Thomas Dunne Books 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160397. ISBN #1250080770 / 9781250080776. (filed under: England ) *
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Manchester, William LAST LION: ALONE 1932-1940 Laurel 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1136123. ISBN #0440500478 / 9780440500476. (filed under: England ) *
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Manchester, William LAST LION: ALONE 1932-1940 Laurel 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1136123. ISBN #0440500478 / 9780440500476. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case. VOLUME TWO -- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume Two: Alone, 1932-1940 VOLUME TWO is complete within this single MP3CD item. Read by Richard Brown This second volume in William Manchester's three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors -- at one point he had to put up his home for sale -- he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was disowned by his own party, dismissed by the BBC and Fleet Street and the social and political establishments as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the British and French pusillanimous policy of appeasement. Manchester tracks with new insights this complex, fascinating history without ever losing sight of Churchill the man -- a man whose vision was global and whose courage was boundless. As a biographer, William Manchester is the standard by which all others are measured. And when a writer of his caliber is matched with a subject as colorful as Winston Churchill, look for results that are magisterial. This -- the second in a three-volume biography -- is a momentous piece of work. One of National Review 's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
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Manchester, William Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions Of Glory, 1874-1932 Little, Brown and Company 1983 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1163208. ISBN #0316545031 / 9780316545037. (filed under: England ) *
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Manchester, William Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions Of Glory, 1874-1932 Little, Brown and Company 1983 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1163208. ISBN #0316545031 / 9780316545037. (filed under: England ) *
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Mansfield, Stephen Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill Cumberland House 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Price clipped. Book #or1154167. ISBN #1888952199 / 9781888952193. (keywords: CHURCHILL WINSTON SIR Political Leadership Great Britain) (filed under: England ) *
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Marcham, Frederick George A Constitutional History of Modern England, 1485 to the Present hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or986867. (filed under: England ) *
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Mardle, Jonathan Broad Norfolk 1976 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064279. (filed under: England ) *
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Martin, Kingsley Critic's London Diary: From The New Statesman, 1931-1956 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058424. (filed under: England ) *
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Mayhew, Henry and edited by Peter Quennell Mayhew's London Bracken Books 1987 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162212. ISBN #0946495033 / 9780946495030. (filed under: England ) *
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MAYNE, Arthur. British Profile Miniatures Boston Book and Art 1970 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135230. (filed under: England ) *
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McCarthy, Terry Great Dock Strike, 1889 Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1988 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147411. ISBN #0297791990 / 9780297791997. (keywords: HISTORY LONDON ENGLAND ENGLISH) (filed under: England ) *
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McCausland, Hugh Old Sporting: Characters And Occasions From Sporting And Road History 1948 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126326. (filed under: England ) *
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McCormick, Donald Mask Of Merlin: A Critical Study Of David Lloyd George hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1012825. (filed under: England ) *
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Mckie, David Bright Particular Stars: A Gallery of Glorious British Eccentrics Atlantic Books 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073294. ISBN #1848872488 / 9781848872486. (filed under: England ) *
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Mckie, David Bright Particular Stars: A Gallery of Glorious British Eccentrics Atlantic Books 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073294. ISBN #1848872488 / 9781848872486. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In Bright Particular Stars , David McKie examines the impact of 26 remarkable British eccentrics on 26 unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotland, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance and disastrous in its execution, McKie leads us to places transformed, inspired, and sometimes scandalized by the obsessional endeavors of visionary mavericks. Some of McKie's eccentrics, such as Mary Macarthur, who helped the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath win the right to a fair wage in 1910, were good to the point of saintliness; others, including the composer Peter Heseltine, who in the 1920s set net curtains twitching by his hard drinking and naked motorbike riding, rather less so. But together their fascinating stories illuminate some of the most secret and most extraordinary byways of British history. Here, quiet, unassuming streetscapes become sites of eccentric and uproarious sites of action. The triumphs and failures of the visionaries who thus transformed them recaptured here in vivid and beguiling fashion have each, in their own way, helped shape the island's rich and checkered history.
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Melechi, Antonio Servants Of The Supernatural: The Night Side Of The Victorian Mind Arrow Books 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170183. ISBN #0099478862 / 9780099478867. (filed under: England ) *
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Melechi, Antonio Servants Of The Supernatural: The Night Side Of The Victorian Mind Arrow Books 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170183. ISBN #0099478862 / 9780099478867. (filed under: England ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Born of the so-called Victorian "pseudo science" of mesmerism, the s ance enjoyed a late 19th-century golden age that ministered to the Victorian obsession with science, religious doubt, and entertainment. Mediums, psychics, and somnambulists were investigated by amateur sleuths and by scientists like Faraday and Darwin; their performances imitated and exposed by magicians, denounced by clerics, satirized hilariously in the press. Yet the popularity of spiritualism and the s ance endured and does so to this day. A revelatory exploration of the darker side of Victorian science, this narrative-driven history is full of literary and scientific anecdote and evocative depiction of 19th-century England.
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