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iUniverse.com Accepting Yourself
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HarperCollins Queen Victoria: A Personal History
Heir to the throne at the age of 11, queen at 18, mothering her own heirs at 21, and both a widow and a grandmother by the time she was 42, Queen Victoria's was an extraordinary life, even for a British monarch. Centuries collided in her life and times. She was a quaint survival of a medieval age--preserving the dynasty by marrying off her children and observing court ritual to the letter. But she was a thoroughly modern monarch too--she loved rail travel at high speed, had an unusually insouciant attitude towards religion, and despite her reputation for not being amused, she was, at least until Prince Albert's death, a woman to whom gaiety and mischief came naturally. Christopher Hibbert, the biographer and popular historian, has already produced a selection from Victoria's journals and letters. Now he has written a full biography, which is a light and enjoyable tour through a familiar landscape. But with 66 chapters in 500 pages there is not much space for depth. The world beyond Victoria's court and family life does not feature very much. And on the outstanding questions of her reign--for example, her relationship with John Brown, her unrealistic sense of her own constitutional position, or the remaking of the image of the monarchy which took place after 1870--the author's verdict is either missing or inconclusive. --<I>Miles Taylor</I>
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Phaidon Press Story of England: Every Visitor's Companion to England's Heritage
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Element Books Disraeli: A Personal History
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Penguin Books Ltd The French Revolution
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Raintree Publishers The Life of a Butterfly (Life Cycles)
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HarperCollins Napoleon: His Wives and Women
It's well known that Napoleon Bonaparte had a huge appetite for power: Christopher Hibbert's <I>Napoleon: His Wives and Women</I> reminds us of his great ardour for the opposite sex as well. Twice-married (to Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796, and to Marie Louise of Austria in 1811) Napoleon was also a serial philanderer, rarely without a lover until ill and apparently impotent in exile at the end of his life. This is the latest in a long line of Hibbert's personal histories of (mostly) 19th-century famous figures. He displays, once more, his skill at getting beneath the skin of his subjects and in this case revealing the moody temperament and possessive libido of the French conqueror. <p> Hibbert accounts for not only Napoleon's mistresses and marriages, but also his formative relationship with his mother and with his sisters, and he also describes the many women (from maids to society hostesses) who came into Napoleon's orbit, as confidants, carers and commentators. This is a compendious account of Napoleon's private life (much of which was inevitably public too), underpinned by a secure hold on the military history of the first empire. What it all adds up to, that is, what part all these women played in the rise and fall of Napoleon, Hibbert seems reluctant to say, eschewing both psychological and sexual speculation. At the end of this poised and highly readable study, we are left only with Napoleon's somewhat jaundiced and weary conclusion that women belong to the highest bidder. --<I>Miles Taylor</I>
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Heinemann Library Globalisation (Just the Facts S.)
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HarperCollins Disraeli: A Personal History
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Penguin Books Ltd Nelson: A Personal History
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Penguin Books Ltd The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744
<I>The Marlboroughs</I> is a biography by Christopher Hibbert, one of Britain's most popular historians, of subjects who were in their time Britain's most popular couple. John Churchill was a charming, ambitious but impoverished son of an obscure country squire from Devon, who achieved his rise to the top by never quite saying what he thought and appearing to agree with everybody. The riskiest thing he did in his youth was jump into bed with Barbara Villiers, an ex-mistress of Charles II, and reputedly a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, the lewdest as well as the fairest of King Charles's concubines. The King actually caught them red-handed on one occasion, but being the kind of Merry Monarch that he was, smiled politely, withdrew from their chamber, and said no more.<p> With the accession of the Protestant William of Orange to the throne of England, it was typical of John Churchill that he should both endear himself to the new King, and secretly stay firmly in touch with the exiled, Catholic King in France, James II: an historical each-way bet that paid handsome dividends. But John Churchill was more than merely a smooth-faced time-server: he was also one of the great military commanders of all time, up there with Wellington and Napoleon. His four great victories over the French in Europe--Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), Oudenarde (1708) and Malplaquet (1709) assured his ascendancy and gained him the title of Duke of Marlborough.<p> His wife Sarah, on the other hand, was his polar opposite in temperament: quick-tempered, indiscreet, gossipy, and surely rather more amusing to talk to. Her intimate and distinctly passionate friendship with Queen Anne is fascinatingly brought to life, as is her strength of character which that opulent monstrosity, Blenheim Palace, brought to completion after her husband's death. Their permanent memorial, the palace was disliked even in its own day--as Alexander Pope observed, 'Tis a house, but not a dwelling, and it remains one of the most ostentatious and unappealing buildings in the country, though set in the most beautiful man-made landscape. <p>Hibbert's history gallops along with all his usual narrative verve and readability; and if in the end it does not quite convince as a portrait of a couple--we generally see John and Sarah operating independently, and in quite separate spheres--perhaps this is simply because that was how 18th-century marriages were, and why they lasted so much longer than today's. --<I>Christopher Hart</I>
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Raintree Publishers In the Trenches During World War I (Raintree: On the Front Line S.)
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Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd 100 Things You Should Know About World Wonders
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Weidenfeld & Nicholson history Agincourt (Great Battles S.)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Great Mutiny: India, 1857
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HarperCollins Wellington: A Personal History
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