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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)

journalist, historian, political scientist

  • Harvard University, Colby College

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Leadership In Turbulent Times
Team of Rivals
Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
Wait Till Next Year
No Ordinary Time
The Winchester Reader
Great God Pan
Every four years
Wait Till Next Year Reading Group Guide
No Ordinary Time Reading Group Guide
William L. Shirer
William L. Shirer (1904-1993)

journalist, historian

  • Coe College

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Bob Dylan
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Berlin diary
20th century journey
The Nightmare Years 1930-1940 (20th Century Journey
Love and hatred
A native's return, 1945-1988
Midcentury journey
This Is Berlin
Gandhi, a memoir
The collapse of the Third Republic
The rise and fall of Adolf Hitler
The traitor
The sinking of the Bismarck
The deadly hunt
The Collapse of the Third Republic
End of a Berlin diary
Gandhi
Berlin Diary 1934-1941
20th century journey
20th century journey
End of a Berlin diary
Love and hatred
La chute de la iiieme republique
The challenge of Scandinavia
This Is Berlin
Sinking of the Bismarck
End of a Berlin Diary
The challenge of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland in our time
Berlin Diary Part 1 Of 2
The collapse of the Third Republic ; an inquiry into the fall of France in 1940
Stranger come home
Stranger, come home
Sterling Point Books: The Sinking of the Bismarck
Twentieth Century Journey
A Native's Return, 1945-1988 (Twentieth-Century Journey)
End of a Berlin diary
Tolstoy Love and Hatred the Stormy Marria
Amor y Odio
The nightmare years, 1930-1940
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich vol.2
The collapse of the Third Republic
All about the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler
Daisan Teikoku no kōbō
20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times : The Start
The Nightmare Years Part 2 of 2
Vzlet i padenie Tretʹego Reĭkha
Berlin diary
The Collapse Of The Third Republic Part 3 Of 3
The Collapse Of The Third Republic Part 1 Of 3
Collapse of the Third-V1
Rise and Fall of the Thir-V3
Twentieth Century Journ-V1
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 4 of 4
Xitele wai zhuan
Berlin Diary-V02
Rise and Fall of the Thir-V4
Collapse of the Third-V3
Twentieth Century Journ-V2
Midcentury journey
Berliner Tagebuch.
Rise and Fall of the Thir-V2
Nightmare Yrs,the
Rise and Fall of the Thir-V1
The Collapse Of The Third Republic Part 2 Of 3
The Nightmare Years Part 1 of 2
NIGHTMARE YEARS, THE (Twentieth Century Journey, Vol 2)
Nightmare Years, The
20th Cen Journey
Berlin diary
Berlin Diary-V01
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 1 of 4
Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitle
Start, The
An August to remember
ʻAliyato u-nefilato shel ha-Raikh ha-shelishi
The consul's wife
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 3 of 4
An August to remember
The collapse of the Third Republic
NATIVES RETURN, A (Twentieth Century Journey)
William L. Shirer : 20th Century Journey, a Memoir of a Life and the Times : The Start : 1904-1930/the Nightmare Years
Berlin Diary Part 2 Of 2
Collapse of the Third-V2
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 2 of 4
20th Cent. Journey
Eberhard Jäckel
Eberhard Jäckel (1929-2017)

historian of Modern Age, historian

  • University of Tübingen, University of Paris

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Hitler in history
Hitlers Weltanschauung
"Historikerstreit"
Das deutsche Jahrhundert
Umgang mit Vergangenheit
La France dans l'Europe de Hitler
The Jews in the secret Nazi reports on popular opinion in Germany, 1933-1945
Deutsche Parlamentsdebatten
Der Mord an den Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg
David Irving's Hitler
Hitlers Herrschaft
Die Schleswig-Frage seit 1945
Die deutsche Frage 1952-1956
Die Funktion der Geschichte in unserer Zeit
Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945
Die deutsche Frage 1952-1956
Von Heuss bis Herzog
Dänemark und die Niederlande unter deutscher Besetzung
Wirtschaft Gesellschaft Geschichte
Die Juden, das sind doch die anderen
Die Funkaufklärung und ihre Rolle im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Kriegswende Dezember 1941
Frankreich in Hitlers Europa
Städte im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey (born 1944)

biographer, journalist, historian

  • Bristol Grammar School, University of Cambridge

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Great tales from English history
The crown
Grace
The Kingdom
Majesty
The year 1000
Aristocrats
Year What Life Was Like At the Turn
Grace
Ford, the men and the machine
Sotheby's
Princess
Monarch
The Queens of the North Atlantic
Queen Mother
Sir Walter Ralegh
Henry VIII
Inside the Kingdom
Robert, Earl of Essex: an Elizabethan Icarus
Great Tales from English History (3)
Royal
Little Man
Ford
The Crown
A Brief Life Of The Queen
The Queen Mother's Century
Robert, Earl of Essex
The Peninsula War
God bless her!
French Revolution
Sothebys Bidding for Class
The queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
Phoenix: Robert, Earl of Essex
Battle of Brothers
The rise of Napoleon
The life and times of Henry VIII
Little Man-Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life
Inside The Kingdom Kings Clerics Modernists Terrorists And The Struggle For Saudi Arabia
Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)
Elizabeth II (Jackdaw)
The management of public expenditures
The retreat from Moscow, 1812
Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings & Queens of England)
Die Sotheby's Story. Hinter den Kulissen des internationalen Kunstgeschäfts
Great Tales: Battle of the Boyne to DNA v. 3
Ford
Great Tales From English History 1387 - 1688 (Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution)
The Crown 2
Model woman
Hendrik VIII
Le parrain des parrains
Battle of Brothers
The Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings and Queens of England Series)
Majesty Elizabeth and the House of Windsor
Majesty
Great Tales of Eng Hist 2
Gulf charities and Islamic philanthropy in the "age of terror" and beyond
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the Age of Terror and Beyond
Ford the Men and the Mach-V1
Drake and the Golden Hinde
Ford the Men and the Mach-V2
Sotheby's
The Crown : The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series
Monarch
Queen Mother's Century Hb Special
Peninsular War
Royal Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth/Banner
Majestät
Queen
Kingdom at War
Brief Life of the Queen
Queen Mother's Century
Retreat from Moscow, 1812
Majesty
Great Tales of English History
Royal Msr
The Crown vol. 2
Aristocrats
Royal
The Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings & Queens of England) by Robert Lacey (1972-07-20)
The Crown
Elizabeth Two
Royal Hb Special
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the 'Age of Terror' and Beyond
The life and times of Henry VIII by Robert Lacey (1995-11-06)
Kingdom at War B
Ford, the men and the machine
Kingdom at War C
French Revolution
Great Tales from English History
Great Tales from English History. CHAUCER TO THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION 1387-1688
Inside the Kingdom
Inside the Kingdom
Inside the Kingdom
Royal (Aar)
Queen Mother's Century Hb Lbus
Year 1000 d/Bx18 Inc 3 Free
Drake and the Golden Hinde
The Crown vol. 2
Ford
Year 1000 Hb Special
Great Tales from English History
Great Tales Eng History Hb Bk Cl
Sotheby?'s Hb D/Bx10
Great Tales from English History : Volume 3
Great Tales of Eng Hist 3 Hb Sign
Grace : Her Lives - Her Loves
Great Tales from English History Vol. 3
Model Woman
Majesty - Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor (Book Club Associates)
Sir Walter Ralegh.
Great Tales of English History 2 Hb Signed from Agincourt to the Glorious Revolution
Rise of Napoleon
Great Tales of English History B
Winfried Schulze
Winfried Schulze (born 1942)

historian

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EGO-Dokumente
Der Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft, 1920-1995
Ständische Gesellschaft und soziale Mobilität
Bäuerlicher Widerstand und feudale Herrschaft in der frühen Neuzeit
Deutsche Historiker im Nationalsozialismus
Die Gründung des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
Landesdefension und Staatsbildung
Sozialgeschichte, Alltagsgeschichte, Mikro- Historie. Eine Diskussion
Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft nach 1945
Einführung in die neuere Geschichte
Deutsche Geschichte im 16. Jahrhundert, 1500-1618
Religion, Politics and Social Protest
Reich und Türkengefahr im späten 16. Jahrhundert
Einführung in die Neuere Geschichte
Reich und Turkengefahr im spaten 16. [i.e. sechzehnten] Jahrhundert
Frühe Neuzeit
Soziologie und Geschichtswissenschaft
Der 14. Juli 1789
La politique de la science en Allemagne au vingtième siècle
Autorität der Form, Autorisierung, institutionelle Autorität
Dimensionen der europäischen Aussenpolitik zur Zeit der Wende vom 16. zum 17. Jahrhundert
Stifterverband Für Die Deutsche Wissenschaft 1920-1995
Ständische Gesellschaft und Soziale Mobilität
Europäische Bauernrevolten der frühen Neuzeit
Geselligkeit und Gesellschaft im Barockzeitalter
Studia Germano-Polonica
Einfuhrung in die Neuere Geschichte
Teil und Ganzes
Moderne Deutsche Geschichte in 12 Bänden. Von der Reformation bis zur Vereinigung.
Aufklärung, Politisierung und Revolution
Russell McCormmach
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)

historian, physicist

  • Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University

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Speculative Truth
Intellectual mastery of nature
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Weighing The World The Reverend John Michell Of Thornhill
The Personality of Henry Cavendish Profile of a Historian of Science Archimedes
Historical studies in the physical sciences
The Second Physicist
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences)
Historical studies in the physical sciences
H Study 1970 V2
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Third Annual Volume 1971. Volume 3
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Power lines
Weighing the World
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 7
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 6
Historical studies in the physical sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 5
Personality of Henry Cavendish - a Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
Intellectual Mastery of Nature - Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Carolyn Steedman
Carolyn Steedman (born 1947)

historian

  • University of Sussex, University of Cambridge

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The radical soldier's tale
Past Tenses
Landscape for a good woman
Master and Servant
Strange dislocations
Childhood, culture, and class in Britain
An Everyday Life Of The English Working Class Work Self And Sociability In The Early Nineteenth Century
Dust
The tidy house
Policing the Victorian community
Dust (Encounters)
Labours lost
An Everyday Life Of The English Working Class Work Self And Sociability In The Early Nineteenth Century
Language, gender, and childhood
History and the Law
Labours lost
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser (born 1932)

historian, biographer, aristocrat

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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Love and Louis XIV
My history
Love and Louis XIV
The weaker vessel
The wild island
Marie Antoinette
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
King James VI of Scotland, I of England
Quiet As a Nun
The warrior queens
Royal Charles
Political death
A splash of red
The Gunpowder Plot
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and other stories
King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table
Your royal hostage
The gunpowder plot
Cool repentance
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Mary, Queen of Scots
The wives of Henry VIII
The Cavalier Case
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Cromwell, our chief of men
Oxford Blood (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
King Charles II
Must you go?
Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
A history of toys
Love letters
Charles II
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Jemima Shore's first case, and other stories
A splash of red
A la carte
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
Jemima Shore's first case
The Warrior Queens (Women in History)
Mary Queen of Scots (Women in History)
English crime stories of today
Mary Queen of Scots
Cool Repentance
Kings and Queens of England
Faith and Treason
Heros and Heroines
The Lives of the kings & queens of England
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Cromwell
The weaker vessel
Jemima Shore's first case, and other stories
Splash of Red (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Must You Go?
The Wild Island (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Quiet as a nun
Love and Louis XIV
Scottish Love Poems
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Women in History)
KING CHARLES II
Wild Island, The
Mary, Queen of Scots
Cool Repentence
The cavalier case.
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Warrior Queens
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Boadicea's chariot
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mystery)
Love Letters
Oxford blood
Love Letters
Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Love letters
Perilous Question The Drama Of The Great Reform Bill 1832
Your Royal Hostage (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Perilous Question Reform Or Revolution Britain On The Brink 1832
Must you go?
Shroud for Delilah
The Pleasure of reading
The Stuarts (A Royal History of England)
Las Seis Esposas de Enrique VIII
Love Letters
Oxford blood
The six wives of Henry VIII, volume 1
A Splash of Red (Jemima Shore Mystery)
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Las Seis Mujeres de Enrique VIII
The Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
Marie Antoinette
Dolls
Robin Hood - Fraser
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
OXFORD BLOOD (JEMIMA SHORE MYSTERY)
The weaker vessel
The lives of the kings and queens of England
The Weaker vessel
Thew arrior queens
La Conspiracion De La Polvora
Tartan Tragedy
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated (Kings & Queens of England)
Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Robin Hood
MARY,QUEEN OF SCOTS
Robin Hood
Mary, Queen Of Scots Part 1 Of 2
The cavalier case
The Warrior Queens
Pleasure of reading
THE WARRIOR QUEENS
CROMWELL, OUR CHIEF OF MEN
Quiet As a Nun
The Cavalier Case
Reinas Guerreras
Lawrence Durrell
Maria Stuart. Eine Biographie
Scottish love poems
Scottish love poems
Oxford and Oxfordshire in verse
Cavalier Case, The
Your royal hostage
Cromwell Our Chief of Men
Three Great Novels Jemima Shore On The Case
Cromwell, our chief of men. --
Marie Antoinette (MTI)
POLITICAL DEATH
A splash of red
Las Seis Esposas De Enrique VIII/ the Wives of Henry VIII
The Tudors (A Royal History of England)
Oxford and Oxfordshire in verse
Gunpowder Plots
Your royal hostage
Jemima Shore's First Case and Other Stories (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Oxford blood
Sukottorando joō meari
Cromwell-V01
Spielzeug
Mary, Queen of Scots Part 1 of 2
Mary, Queen Of Scots Part 2 Of 2
The King and the Catholics
Cromwell Part 2 of 3
Your Royal Hostage (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Tartan tragedy
More women of mystery
Cromwell Part 3 Of 3
Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Marie-Antoinette
Scottish love poems
Twentieth Century
Cool Repentance a Fraser
The cavalier case
Cool repentance
Normans and Angevins
Quiet As a Nun
Cromwell-V02
The pleasure of reading
Gunpowder Plot Terror and Faith In 1605
Heroes & heroines
Oxford Blood (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Cromwell Part 2 Of 3
Heroes and Heroines
Oxford blood
Heroes & heroines
S&J;Robin Hood Frazer A
El Enigma Del Vizconde
Cromwell Part 1 of 3
Jemima Shore's first case
Cromwell Part 3 of 3
Mary Queen of Scot
Die sechs Frauen Heinrichs VIII
Maria Estuardo
Het wilde eiland =
Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Scottish love poems
The Lives of the kings & queens of England
Perilous question
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The six wives of Henry V111
Mary Queen of Scots and the historians
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Cavalier Case (Bloomsbury Modern Library)
The six wives of Henry VIII
Cromwell
Cromwell-V03
Mary, Queen of Scots Part 2 of 2
The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England
Cool Repentance (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Cromwell Part 1 Of 3
Three great novels
Political death
My history
Love letters
Scottish love poems
King Charles II
The warrior queens
A red rose or a satin heart
Mary Queen of Scots
The weaker vessel
Oxford Blood & Cavalier Case
Love letters
The gunpowder plot
Heroes & heroines
Cromwell, our chief of men
Mary Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
Die Nonne
Vous partez déjà?
The warrior queens
Poems