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Winston Churchill was a lone voice in Parliament warning of the threat of Hitler and Nazi Germany. His premier biographer, Martin Gilbert, provides a concise picture of those years which show one of the dangers of how a democracy allowed political convenience and budgetary "necessity" to control defence policy.

A distillation Gilbert's official biography a critical view of Churchill's warnings and British politics in the 1930s

Lucy Walter, secretly married to Charles II, his wife as an exile in Holland and Paris, and mother of the Duke of Monmouth - had she other attributes than beauty? Has her character been misrepresented down through the years? E;izabeth Goudge, with good reason to believes so, presents her life story in a fresh and fascinating light. It begins with her childhood at Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, and ends when Charles is restored to the English throne. Originall published in 1970