May 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill must deal with this horror - as well as skeptical king, a party plotting against him and an unprepared public. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the...

Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour's history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a historic three terms in office as Britain's dominant political...

William Wilberforce was at the heart of British politics for over forty years but is chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in England. This intriguing and insightful biography of his life will inspire you to find ways to stand on your convictions and make a difference wherever you are. William Wilberforce was at the heart of British politics for over forty years but is chiefly remembered as the reformer...

Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the critical role religion played in government, and the blossoming of English theater and literature.

Written when Kennedy was a senior at Harvard and published in 1940, this is a brilliant appraisal of the tragic events of the thirties that led to World War II. It is an electrifying account of England's unpreparedness for war and a sober and serious study of the shortcomings of democracy when confronted by the menace of totalitarianism.

Written in a fit of pique brought about by Edmund Burke's blistering attack of the French Revolution, Paine's The Rights of Man has come to be regarded as one of the most important works in the realm of Western political philosophy. In it, Paine contends that some rights that are granted through natural law, rather than by governments or constitutions. A must-read for those interested in politics, philosophy, and the intersection of the

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A brief biography of William Wilberforce, a British politician and philanthropist who became a leading voice for ending the British slave trade between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

"The Prime Minister is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope, first published in book form in 1876.  The fifth novel in the six-book Palliser series, the story follows Plantagenet Palliser, the conscientious Duke of Omnium, now installed as Prime Minister at Westminster.  The Duke is dismayed by the relentless rise of city adventurer and foreign interloper Ferdinand Lopez in London society, supported by various high society ladies, including...

A guide to each king and queen from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Includes 400 photos and color maps.