Books written by Jules Stewart
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Albert: A Life
Relations between the British and French royal courts went into a tailspin once it became known that the prototype had been tested in England with the complicity of a French exile, one Dr Simon Bernard, a resident of Bayswater.
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Madrid: The History
... were loaded onto night trains and smuggled back into Spain to avoid seizure by the Nazis. 28 Quoted in Lopezarias, Germán, El Madrid del¡No pasarán! (Madrid: Ediciones la Librería, 2007), p. 131. 29 George MacDonald Fraser in a talk ...
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On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars
12 For a highly-entertaining account of the Sikh dynastic intrigues, see George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman and the Mountain of Light. 13 Spear, op. cit., p. 173. 14 Fortescue, op. cit., p. 346. 15 Mason, Philip, A Matter of Honour, ...
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Madrid: Midnight City
18: Francisco José Gómez Fernández, Madrid, una ciudad para un imperio (Madrid, 2011), p. 17. p. ... 24: Pedro Montoliú, Madrid villa y corte (Madrid, 1996), pp. 92–4. p. ... 104: David Mathieson, Frontline Madrid (Oxford, 2014), p. 46.
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Policing the Big Apple: The Story of the NYPD
As debates about defunding US police forces continue, this book offers an enlightening historical overview of one of the largest metropolitan contingents: the New York City Police Department.
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Albert: A Life
The Principal Speeches and Addresses of HRH the Prince Consort, John Murray, london, 1862 — (ed.) ... New York, 1982 Scheele, Godfrey and Margaret, The Prince Consort: Man of many facets, Oresko Books, london, 1977 Sebrell, Thomas, ...
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Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya
This book is devoted to these servants of the Raj who managed to map the Himalayas, Tibet and surrounding areas with remarkable precision, thereby helping the British to consolidate their rule in the Indian sub-continent.
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Madrid: The History
... one occasion, came within a hair's breadth of falling victim to gangland-style violence. While driving one night to the outskirts, the car carrying his bodyguards broke down and Líster carried on with his driver and aide-de-camp. A mile ...
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Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s
New York in the 1930s Jules Stewart. Rock, Howard B., Haven of Liberty (New York: New York University Press, 2012) ... Guide to New York City (New York: Random House, 1939). Wyman, David S., Paper Walls (Amherst, MA: University of ...
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Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s
Weaving these stories together, Jules Stewart tells the story of an iconic city in a time of change.
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Madrid: The History
Yet, Madrid has a rich historical and cultural life which attracts almost 8 million visitors per year, drawn to its beautiful palaces and churches, the magnificent collections of the Prado and everywhere the echoes of a faded empire.
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The Kaiser's Mission to Kabul: A Secret Expedition to Afghanistan in World War I
Jules Stewart provides a gripping account of the expedition, highlighting a previously little-known aspect of World War I.