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Lord Rochester's monkey : being the life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
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ISBN: 0860077403 9780860077404 Year: 1974 Publisher: London: Futura,

A passion for government : the life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
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ISBN: 0198202245 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

Buckingham, the life and political career of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, 1592-1628
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ISBN: 0582502969 9780582502963 Year: 1981 Publisher: London: New York: Longman,

Marlborough
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ISBN: 0521375711 0521375932 051156063X 0511876408 9780521375931 9780521375719 9780511560637 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his reputation has faded. Few, apart from specialists in military history, have any appreciation of the extent of his achievements. This new study sets Marlborough's career in its contexts: the royal Court of the last Stuart monarchs, the desperate struggle against French attempts to establish hegemony in western Europe and the bitter political strife in Britain between the Whig and the Tory parties. It examines the opportunistic ways in which John Churchill rose from obscurity and poverty to wealth and greatness, his decisive role in the Revolution of 1688 and the circumstances and reasons for his dramatic fall.


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Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life
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ISBN: 9780670025572 0670025577 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York: Viking,

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Examines the life of Henry VII's right-hand man, who did everything he could to secure the future of a son he loved dearly, but who ultimately could not control the unpredictable monarch

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