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|author= Elizabeth Norton

|title= The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor

|rating= 4.5

|genre= Biography

|summary= Life, or rather survival, in Tudor England was a precarious business. Being close to the crown was anything but a guarantee of safety, as the fate of two of King Henry VIII's Queen's amply demonstrated. His second daughter Elizabeth led a charmed life and went on to reign as Queen for over forty years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if not her very existence was under threat.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>

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|author=Alison Maloney

|summary=The idea of taking a pivotal year from the past and devoting a whole book to the theme, embracing political, social and military history, is a very interesting one. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two Nations: Britain in 1846’, and here he does the same again, taking a step three decades back.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)~~

~~|title=The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Autobiography~~

|summary=If life as a girl of school-leaving age is hard enough, think about it when you're stuck in a great city under a horrendous siege. Lena Mukhina's diary only covers half the 800-odd days the nightmare in Leningrad lasted, but so palpably singular were the circumstances that it feels like one is given the clearest insight into what it was like, courtesy of these pages. I've been there and never felt the ghost of the siege in the modern St Petersburg, anything like (for example) the ruination of Warsaw had lived on. But a dreadful time this was. At the peak times of Nazi oppression and aerial bombing, the city lost 2 or 3 residents' lives ''every minute'' of the day on average. The city was desperate for fuel, and food – and this is a place where it can – and does here – snow in June. Without giving too much of the diet away, it's notable that later on Lena dreams of having a menagerie of small animals to live with – but no dogs or cats.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726987X</amazonuk>~~

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