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A Magnificent Obsession by RAPPAPORT HELEN
Category: History
After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the Queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had ...Show more
After the Romanovs - Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
A TLSand ProspectBook of the Year From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Romanov Sisterscomes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the la ...Show more
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport
Category: Non-Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also b ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
"A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport." (Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author, The Romanovs)). Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful tel ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
"A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport." (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs). "Next year's centenary will prompt a raft of books on the ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution - Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport
Category: Non-Fiction
Selected as a Book of the Year in the Telegraphand Evening Standard 'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The R ...Show more
Four Sisters:the Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
Category: Biography
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more
In Search of Mary Seacole - The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport
Category: Biography
'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that explores her remarkable achievements and unique st ...Show more
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport
Category: Biography
From New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have grown around her. Raised in Jamaica, Mary Seacole first came to England in the 1850s after working in Panam ...Show more
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
Category: Non-Fiction
When Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. His death was a catastrophe for Victoria, who not only adored her husband but had, through twenty-one years of marriage, utterly relied on him: as companion, father of their children, friend, confida ...Show more
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
Category: Non-Fiction
When Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. He was only forty-two and official bulletins had, until the day before he died, given no cause for alarm. But in fact Albert had been in a progressive physical decline for years - worn out by overwor ...Show more
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
A work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family. On 17 July 1918, the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous escapes. The ...Show more