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British History

1. Elizabeth I and Her Age

   Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump

   Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More

2. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo

   Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson

   A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."—National Geographic AdventureMore

3. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

   Richard Alexander Hough, Denis Richards

   A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.More

4. The Victorians

   A. N. Wilson

   A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own.More

5. A Secret History of the IRA

   Ed Moloney

   An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest wars—based on unprecedented access to all the players.More

6. Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

   Richard Holmes

   A rich, anecdotal history of the British soldier from the American Revolution through the Indian Mutiny.More

7. Richard the Third

   Paul Murray Kendall

   "The best biography of Richard III that has been written."—A. L. Rowse, Chicago TribuneMore

8. Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes

   Christopher Hibbert

   "Outstanding....Hibbert has an eye for character and a gift for bringing to life the impact of small-minded incompetents on the wide sweep of history."— Associated PressMore

9. The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality

   Richard Overy

   "A concise, penetrating account....This stirring book inspires an admiration for British courage."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

10. The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

    Roy Porter

    "Porter's [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for."—Peter Gay, Times Literary SupplementMore

11. Darwin

    Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

    Third Edition

    "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.More

12. The Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud

    Peter Gay

    The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More

13. Why the Allies Won

    Richard Overy

    "Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century."—Sunday Times (London)More

14. Michael Collins and the Troubles

    Ulick O'Connor

    When Asquith introduced his bill for Home Rule for Ireland in 1912, he sparked a decade of turbulence and violence for Ireland and her people.More

15. Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes, Richard Flathman, David Johnston

    This Norton Critical Edition of arguably the greatest work of political theory written in the English language contains the bulk of Hobbes's treatise, including all chapters except those of interest primarily to professional historical scholars.More