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4) Britannia
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The year is 1597. The Spanish invasion was a success. King Phillip holds the English throne captive while Elizabeth I languishes in the tower of London. And in the streets of that city, a stranger approaches a young playwright named William Shakespeare and makes him an offer that could change the course of history.
10) Pops Britannia
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A political/economic alliance between the United States and England leads to open hostility when Marines land in Cornwall. Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military...
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Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1775-1860, was a legend in his lifetime. This biography makes clear that he achieved enough to fill several lifetimes, first as an audacious and brilliant naval tactician in the final years of the struggle against Napoleon, but also as a politician, reformer, inventor, and single-handed campaigner against corruption in the Admiralty. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Cochrane commenced...
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"Britannia's Children is the first account of emigration from the British Isles as a whole, including England, Scotland and Ireland (Ireland being part of the Britain during the Great Famine and its classic age of emigration). Eric Richards traces the stages of this extraordinary movement from the days of Raleigh and the Mayflower to modern times, and shows the variety of motives that drove men and women to make the most momentous decisions of their...
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