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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Other books by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Our most recommended books

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

Karl Marx's Theory of History by G. A. Cohen

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

Assignment to Catastrophe by Edward Spears

Private Memoirs Of The Court Of Napoleon by Louis François Joseph Bausset-Roquefort

Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Peculiar Ground
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell

Karl Marx's Theory of History
by G. A. Cohen

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by Dan Jones

Assignment to Catastrophe
by Edward Spears

Private Memoirs Of The Court Of Napoleon
by Louis François Joseph Bausset-Roquefort

Robert Kennedy and His Times
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.