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The Boer War
The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, …
Palmerston
British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as a womanizer, a careless aristocrat and the apostle of big-stick diplomacy. His lengthy life linked the …
Private Diaries of Alison Uttley
Popular childrens author, Alison Uttley (Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig) spent over 40 years writing diaries. Professor Denis Judd, who knew Alison and has previously written her …
Lord Reading
Rufus Isaacs was in his day the first commoner to rise to the rank of marquess since the Duke of Wellington. Born into a lively Jewish family, he left school aged 14, yet made his …
Lord Reading
Rufus Isaacs was in his day the first commoner to rise to the rank of marquess since the Duke of Wellington. Born into a lively Jewish family, he left school aged 14, yet made his …
The Lion and the Tiger
The British experience in India began in earnest over four hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. For many years the English interlopers and traders who made …
Nasledie kapitana Flinta
«Odnazhdy ja nachertil kartu ostrova; ona byla staratelno raskrashena; izgiby ee neobychajno uvlekli moe voobrazhenie; zdes byli bukhtochki, kotorye menja plenjali, kak sonety. …
Balfour and the British Empire
First published in 1968, Balfour and the British Empire displayed Denis Judd's acute perception both of Britain's imperial history and Arthur Balfour's puzzling …
A British Tale of Indian and Foreign Service
This memoir follows the author's life from his schooldays in Trinidad to the North-West frontier of India, Delhi and Beirut, to the Sudan and Norway. In doing so it offers an …
Jawaharlal Nehru
Radical Joe
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) was a towering personality in an age of political giants. Disraeli, Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George all flourished …