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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: 1976 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 Longman

Marlborough
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ISBN: 0521375711 0521375932 051156063X 0511876408 9780521375931 9780521375719 9780511560637 Year: 1993 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 (N.Y.) : Viking-Penguin,

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"Since the sixteenth century we have been fascinated by Henry VIII and the man who stood beside him, guiding him, enriching him, and enduring the king's insatiable appetites and violent outbursts until Henry ordered his beheading in July 1540. After a decade of sleuthing in the royal archives, Diarmaid MacCulloch has emerged with a tantalizing new understanding of Henry's mercurial chief minister, the inscrutable and utterly compelling Thomas Cromwell. History has not been kind to the son of a Putney brewer who became the architect of England's split with Rome. Where past biographies portrayed him as a scheming operator with blood on his hands, Hilary Mantel reimagined him as a far more sympathetic figure buffered by the whims of his master. So which was he--the villain of history or the victim of her creation? MacCulloch sifted through letters and court records for answers and found Cromwell's fingerprints on some of the most transformative decisions of Henry's turbulent reign. But he also found Cromwell the man, an administrative genius, rescuing him from myth and slander. The real Cromwell was a deeply loving father who took his biggest risks to secure the future of his son, Gregory. He was also a man of faith and a quiet revolutionary. In the end, he could not appease or control the man whose humors were so violent and unpredictable. But he made his mark on England, setting her on the path to religious awakening and indelibly transforming the system of government of the English-speaking world"--Publisher description.

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