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Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
King George V predicted that his eldest son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world's press broke their Great Silence: King Edward VIII was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American social ...Show more
Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the SecondWorld War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson; ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynasti ...Show more
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how the modern world was forged.Here are the astonishing tales behind the Panama Canal, the SS Great Eastern, the Hoover Dam, the London Sewers, the American Railroad, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Bell Rock Lighthouse - The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.Deborah Cadbury's fasc ...Show more
Space Race by Deborah Cadbury
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
The end of the Cold War finally reveals a generation of secrets and cover-ups, bringing a historical opportunity: the unmasking of the true heroes and villains behind the biggest race of mankind.This is one of the greatest stories in world history, beginning in the bloody throes of the Second World War ...Show more
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'All the violence I had experienced before felt like a bad dream. It was a paradise. I think most of the children felt it was a paradise.' In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read M ...Show more
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