Best Welsh History
Galore Park Publishing, in association with Civitas, reissued this classic children's history book over fifty years after it was last in print. She penned several other books including Our Empire Story, Scotland's Story and King's and Things, the latter two also having been recently republished by Galore Park.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We have been reading through this history book for several years and love it, but our version was a pretty poor paperback reprint."
"This book is an excellent historical work about Britain and it is written for young children."
"Simplistic, but a fair overview of English/British history for someone in a hurry; I used it to check basic background while reading a novel about King Edward II, and it was effective for that."
"This book is a treasure."
"I realize that would make it a thicker book, but the way it is done is not at all useful for younger readers, and if you are following the book list, this is recommended for younger readers."
"I am not sure if the hard copy of the book has pictures, but the kindle version does not."
"This is a history of Great Britain written for a young audience, but full of fascinating details and stories."
"The problem is- there are some major grammar, punctuation and other print issues that were a serious oversight on the part of the publisher."
In this chronological selection of thirty-two of the most notable houses in England and Wales, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and Christopher Simon Sykes present a panoramic history of the evolution of the 'great house'. The instigator and editor of an index covering some ten thousand country houses in the British Isles, he was also the author of Blenheim Revisited , Family Seats , Great British Families , Royal Palaces of Europe , and (with Christopher Simon Sykes) Great Houses of Scotland , Great Houses of Ireland , and English Manor Houses .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"From what I have read and seen of the smaller book so far, it is great.....BUT I can tell that I really would have liked to have had the bigger, extended book instead."
"It's a handsome book, but it doesn't escape a certain superficiality: it's a coffee table book, and a nice one, but it could have been much more: detail, art, architectural comment, and history could all have been usefully included."
"Beautiful oversized book."
"This book is a lifelong "keeper.""
"Wonderful book, delivered on time; have really enjoyed the pictures and the history of each home."
"Absolutely beautiful."
"The book arrived pronto with a nice note from the sender."
Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. On other occasions, she carefully enunciates each syllable, emphasizing her British diction but rendering her reading more actress performance than nuanced reading. While she stresses Diana's role in changing the relationship between the press and the House of Windsor, Brown offers plenty of juicy details, "varying from credible to melodramatic to weirdly sitcomlike" ( New York Times )-from Diana's sexual relationship (remember Squidgy?).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As a Diana buff I have read just about everything there is, so I was pleasantly surprised to read some new info and insights from Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair."
"The author gives a fairly unbiased biography of the "glamourous woman" who had insecurities and faults like any woman."
"Highly recommend this book, I feel Tina Brown was writing a honest book about a friend she once knew."
"I'm about 1/2 way through this book."
"If you want to find out what all went on during Prince Charles and Princess Diana's marriage this is the book to get."
"Tina Brown writes very well with succinct and clear prose; the information about Princess Diana's background and family situation was most interesting."
"It does have inaccuracies and the author does have a pompous style clearly designed to bop the reader over the head with how many clever words she knows, but it's an interesting perspective."
"I think it was rather balanced because she pointed out the good and pad points of both Charles and Diana. The author states that young girls were told to marry, have kids and be happy."
Best England History
The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Killing series transports listeners to the most important era in our nation’s history, the Revolutionary War. The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor led the program to the status of the highest rated cable news broadcast in the nation for sixteen consecutive years. He holds a history degree from Marist College, a masters degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University, and another masters degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"While an easy read and not that long, the detail of how George Washington along with his army barely escaped numerous times was enthralling."
"I am a history buff and often have to dig through wordy and complex descriptions of times and events written by well meaning historians."
"Killing England does do a nice (though superficial) job of explaining why it wasn't as simple for them as just letting the colonies go, even as the costs and losses started piling up. All in all, like all the Killing books for me, it's an effective, well written "Starter Kit" to get people into an historical topic that many just don't know about and might decide to explore further. For those already knowledgeable, it's easy popcorn reading with a "human story" slant that makes for a good page-turning re-introduction to a topic one might have stopped exploring long ago and might enjoy getting back into."
"Maybe because of all the crazy stuff with the statues, changing names of our schools, wanted to see if it is true the left wants to change the constitution."
"This book also didn't have the suspenseful buildup to a particular event like the other Killing books did."
"Very informative book about the intimate details of the very men who founded our young country."
"An excellent read that taught me more about the War for Independence than any other read or history book I have read."
"As with the other books in this series, the story is told with great attention to details giving the reader a human perspective to what was involved to get the war won and freedom from English rule without representation a reality."
Best Scotland History
How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. It is only natural, Herman suggests, that a country that once ranked among Europe's poorest, if most literate, would prize the ideal of progress, measured "by how far we have come from where we once were."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's certainly no puff-piece for Scotland, because the author minces no words describing the darker side of 17th and 18th Century Scottish culture, but it is a scholarly and well-rounded view of the birthplace of the Enlightenment and its profound effect on Western thought, politics and education."
"While the last fourth or third of this book dragged on with a little to much detail that failed to hold my interest (except for the conclusion)."
"assuming it is historically correct it has an annoying style to as if the author feels the Scots are somewhat inferior and the world needs to know how great they were."
"Very interesting regarding the education aspect of the Scots who settled in East Alabama ,etc."
"Who knew I said repeatedly to my husband as I read to him many of the interesting stories in this book."
"Very interesting history of how the Scots contributed to our ideas of the relation of individuals to society."
"We found this book fascinating!"
"Way to long winded."