Hadrian's Wall

by Derry Brabbs

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Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Publication date: January 02, 2009

A photographic tour of the most important Roman monument in Britain, the stone wall built in AD 122 by the emperor Hadrian across northern England to defend against raids by the Pictish tribes of ancient Scotland.

Standing with Stones

A Photographic Journey Through Megalithic Britain and Ireland

by Rupert Soskin

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson Inc.

Publication date: May 01, 2009

Travel beyond Stonehenge, on a prehistoric pilgrimage to less familiar megalithic monuments of the British countryside.

The Somme

The Darkest Hour on the Western Front

by Peter Hart

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Publisher: Pegasus Books, Inc.

Publication date: January 07, 2009

The definitive account of one of history’s bloodiest battles—a military tragedy that would come to define a generation.

Winston Churchill

The Flawed Genius of WWII

by Christopher Catherwood

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Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Publication date: March 01, 2009

This groundbreaking new analysis and assessment examines disastrous decisions Churchill made between 1940 and 1941.

Treachery

Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-Ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain

by Chapman Pincher

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Publisher: Random House Inc.

Publication date: May 05, 2009

A riveting account of the duplicity that characterized the British response to 20th-century Soviet espionage.

A Brave Vessel

The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest

by Hobson Woodward

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Publisher: Viking Penguin/Div of Penguin Putnam

Publication date: July 01, 2009

True tale of castaways shipwrecked on a Bermuda isle en route to Jamestown in 1609, inspiring Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

The Black-Out Book

by Evelyn August

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Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Ltd.

Publication date: October 20, 2009

A delightful collection of miscellany published during WWII to amuse and distract Britons during the nightly black-outs.

Defend the Realm

The Authorized History of MI5

by Christopher Andrew

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Random House

Publication date: October 20, 2009

This unprecedented look at the British Security Service, MI5, reveals its history, structure and many of its secrets.

The Other Side of the Night

The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost

by Daniel Allen Butler

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Publisher: Casemate Publisher & Book Dist.

Publication date: June 01, 2009

A look at the Titanic disaster that shows how the actions of two nearby ships sealed the fate of nearly 1,500 souls.

The Twilight Years

The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

by Richard Overy

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Publisher: Viking Penguin/Div Of Penguin Putna

Publication date: December 01, 2009

Deftly reveals how irrational, exaggerated fears of decline and dissolution shaped Britain between World Wars I and II.