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|author= John Ashdown-Hill

|title= The Private Life of Edward IV

|rating= 4.5

|genre= Biography

|summary= Edward IV is currently a popular subject for biographers. All credit is therefore due to Dr Ashdown-Hill, one of the foremost of current Yorkist-era historians, for looking at the King from a fresh angle – that of his romantic involvements.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652455</amazonuk>

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|author= Pamela Sambrook

|summary= The basic facts of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquest, the events and politics which led up to it, and the aftermath. As Peter Rex makes clear in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'the writing of the history of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Catherine Hickley~~

~~|title=The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary=One of the most newsworthy events in modern art history happened seemingly by chance. When tax police raided the house of an aged man in Munich it was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about and paying no tax – this six months after he was seen on the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no case, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European art. But that collection had to have an origin – one of dubious and at times nefarious beginnings, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted background. Hickley, in these pages, gives us much in the way of context as well as ironing out those convolutions, so this story is both of interest to Nazi historians and art scholars – as well as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told well.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>~~

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