Familiar and unfamiliar images of Scotland captured by photographer Douglas Corrance during journeys across Scotland, with accompanying text by Magnus Linklater.

Scotland

Linklater, Magnus

Corrance, Douglas

Salem House Publishers

The years immediately before the First World War saw the last great flowering of European monarchy. Although sovereigns no longer ruled by divine right, their prestige and positions remained almost intact. The glittering centerpieces of national life, those crowned and anointed monarchs were still widely regarded as mystical, unassailable, divinely guided. And, with the majority of them being so closely related, they constituted a royal clan, an international freemasonry through which it was assumed the peace of Europe was being maintained. World War I shattered all this. King took up arms against king; cousin was pitted against cousin. Twelve leading monarchs, ranging from the vainglorious Kaiser Wilhelm II to such lesser-known figures as the brigandly Nicholas of Montenegro, the 'outre' Foxy Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the tragic Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary, were involved in the conflict. For, in the end, that celebrated kinship of the family of kings proved irrelevant. Against the upheavals of these years, monarchs were revealed as both powerless and impotent. Here, Theo Aronson has assembled the entire cast of embattled monarchs. His is the story of eight momentous years viewed, as it were, from the monarchical standpoint; an account of the passing, not only of their particular world, but of the entire monarchic and dynastic order of the Continent. It describes the brilliant sunset and the dramatic break-up of the Europe of the Kings.

Crowns in Conflict

History

ARONSON, Theo.

Europe

The World War Two Fact Book, 1939-1945

Campbell, Christy

Reference

Historic Walks in London, Bath, Oxford and Edinburgh

This book will help you to explore four of Britain's fairest cities London, Bath, Oxford and Edinburg and to become acquainted with their past their architectural heritage and some of the personalities who have been associated with them through the ages. The authors are thoroughly familiar with their chosen cities and draw on a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to point out, for example, a clock mentioned in Pickwick Papers, or to explain the derivation of a place name or identify the subjects of an unnamed statue. Historic Walks is no ordinary guidebook, it is a personal introduction to places that will amply reward your attention an invaluable companion on your wanderings.

Reveley, Betty

Wendt, Allan

Britain by Train

Travel

Goldring, Patrick

Thirty-one Englishmen describe the room of their home that means the most to them, and each recounts how he decorated it

The Englishman's Room

Lees-Milne, Alvilde (ed.)

Literature & Fiction

A Man's Tale

John Pepper

Cottage Gardening gives practical advice and informaiton to help create your own garden.

Cottage Gardening In Town and Country

Philip Swindells

Van Gogh

Uhde, W.

Christie's Review of the Season 1983

HERBERT, JOHN

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