Richard Hough, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05323-4
These anecdotal portraits of the six children of King George V and Queen Mary are remarkable for the insipid personalities that emerge, as drawn by Hough, author of Louis and Victoria: The First Mountbattens. Save for David, who made history by...
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Richard Hough, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-312-09793-6
Hough, a British historian who has written previously about the Royals ( Born Royal: The Lives and Loves of the Young Windsors ), delivers an interesting dual biography of Queen Victoria's eldest son, Edward VII (1841-1910), and his wife, Princess...
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Richard Hough, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-393-03680-0
Is James Cook to be best understood as an explorer and scholar or an agent of European imperialism? This comprehensive biography by a noted writer of popular maritime history tells Cook's story without taking much of a stand. Even as a junior naval...
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Richard Hough, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14822-5
A challenge for readers of Hough's brief life of the royal couple will be to fathom the meaning of the subtitle. ""Love"" is obvious enough: their arranged marriage to ensure an orderly succession quickly became a passionate one. The tragedies they...
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Richard Hough, Author, Denis Richards, With W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-393-30734-4
A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. ``This is a first-rate work of scholarship written for the general reader,'' concluded PW. Photos. (Sept.)
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Richard Hough, Author, Denis Richards, With W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-393-02766-2
``Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,'' said Churchill at the height of a three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. It was a major turning point in World War II: unable to...
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