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• Churchill Defiant : Fighting On, 1945-1955

  Leaming, Barbara

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  July 1945: having saved his country from Hitler, Churchill is booted out of office. October 1951: that bulldog Churchill fights his way back to the prime minister's post and works for world peace

• Clementine

  the Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

  Purnell, Sonia,

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  A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elizabeth the Queen : the Life of a Modern Monarch

  Smith, Sally Bedell, 1948-

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  Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The King's Speech

  Logue, Mark

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  Presents the life of the Australian speech therapist who helped the English king, George VI, overcome a lifelong speech disorder and become an eloquent leader of his people during the difficult days of World War II.

• London Fog

  the Biography

  Corton, Christine L., 1958-

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  The classic London fogs—thick yellow “pea-soupers”—were born in the industrial age and remained a feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s. This fog also featured prominently in an episode of Season 1…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The People's King

  the True Story of the Abdication

  Williams, A. Susan

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  The People's King follows the six intense weeks leading up to the abdication of Edward VIII, considered by many to be among the most compelling love stories of the last century. Just six months before their wedding, the only people who had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Philip and Elizabeth

  Portrait of a Royal Marriage

  Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-

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  An account of the marriage of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh offers insight into their contrasting childhoods in spite of a similar ancestry, and the enigmatic nature of their long-time partnership.

• Prince Philip : the Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II

  Eade, Philip

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  Chronicles the first thirty years of Prince Philip's life from his childhood in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth.

• The Queen Mother

  the Official Biography

  Shawcross, William

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  The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles--and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Queen's Sister

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  A biopic of the flamboyant Princess Margaret from the days after her father's death in 1952 through the 1970s.

• That Woman : the Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

  Sebba, Anne

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  A full-scale portrait of the divorcée maligned for her marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII provides coverage of the impoverished early life that fueled her ambitions, theories about her alleged personality disorder and her posthumous…Read moreRead more of this annotation