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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
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Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217
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The Demon's Brood: A Plantagenet History from Anjou to Bosworth
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
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Jasper Tudor: Tudor Dynasty
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War
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Jasper Tudor, Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty
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Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince
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The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3)
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A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
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Tudor Wales: Full-Colour Guide to the Many Places in Wales Associated with This Famous Dynasty
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4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Witches
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Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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James and Dolley Madison: America's First Power Couple
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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
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God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
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Lordship in four realms: The Lacy family, 1166–1241 (Manchester Medieval Studies, 12)
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Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II
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Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Judy: A Dog In A Million
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
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Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
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America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation
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