Deborah Cadbury
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
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In the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms — Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury — were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do well by doing good. The English chocolatiers introduced the world's first chocolate bar and ever fancier chocolate temptations — while also writing groundbreaking papers on poverty, publishing authoritative studies of the Bible, and campaigning against human rights abuses. Chocolate was always a...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit....
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of Queen Victoria's matchmaking exploits details how she used her grandchildren to further the influence of the British Empire, despite their own plans and the turmoil that rocked Europe starting in the nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
British author Cadbury explores the many layers involved in the abdication crisis of 1936, which ceded the British crown to the seemingly least prepared of the four sons of George V, George VI, aka Bertie, who revealed himself in the subsequent crisis of war to be the most suitable and stalwart of all.