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Written by James Gairdner. By Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
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No comments about History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third to Which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents.
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Written by John Buchan. By Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
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Written by Ann C. Kavanaugh. By Irish Academic Press.
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No comments about John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare: A Study in Personality and Politics (Legal History).
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1 comments about Sean Connery: A Celebration.
- A must for any Sean Connery fan. This book covers Sean Connery movies and characters through Entrapment. There appears to be something about every role Sean Connery has ever done. The book is filled with humorous stories about this great actor his life both in character and being himself. There are great pictures any fan would love, some are very rare. Sections of the book,covers family members, close friends and people touch by this man. Great quotes and little known facts about a man who has entertain us for years and who's work will keep us entertain for years to come. A great book about a Great Scot.
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Written by Mary Ellen Blair. By Sunstone Press.
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No comments about A Life Well Led: The Biography of Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, British Anthropologist.
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Written by William Manchester. By Laurel.
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No comments about The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill; Alone: 1932-1940.
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Written by R. S. Warren and Thomas F. G. Coates and R. S. Bell. By Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
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1 comments about Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman.
- This eulogistic and contemporary study of Marie Corelli and her vast success reveals as much, if not more, of the writers' own personal prejudices as it does about Corelli. The writers see Corelli as a great propagandist for what is right and wrong in the world, and thus attempt to excuse or expiate her own tendency for hypocrisy and an inability to know her own mind. This is an insight into one kind of her contemporary admirers, but does her less justice than the more even handed biographies of Eileen Bigland and Brian Masters.
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Written by Henry Glassford Bell. By Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
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Written by Richard Oram. By Tempus.
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1 comments about Servant of the Shogun: Being the True Story of William Adams, Pilot and Samurai, the First Englishman in Japan.
- By now, everyone knows there is a true story that inspired the novel SHOGUN--William Adams, the English pilot of a Dutch merchant ship, shipwrecked in Japan in 1600, who gains the favor of the Shogun and is granted samurai status. Given the remoteness in time and distance, you wouldn't expect there to be a significant amount of original source material available on the life and times of William Adams. As it turns out, references include letters home to England in Adams' own hand, log-books of his trading voyages out of Japan and diaries and commercial records of many other Western merchants with whom he had business contacts. There is enough to make an interesting history. Unfortunately, as presented in this volume, the story is torpid and confusing. Despite the author's academic credentials, one is left with the suspicion that this book was hurriedly constructed to capitalize on the novel and miniseries. The subtitle is "The True Story of Shogun's Hero" and the liner notes reference both. The chronology is unclear and the introduction of several quoted secondary characters in the midst of chapters is confusing. There is enough inherent drama in William Adams' history to make the book of some value, but it would be advisable to seek a more readable reference.
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