Books like The Wives of Henry VIII
12 books with a reading profile close to The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Sonia Purnell chronicles the life of Virginia Hall, an American woman who overcame a prosthetic wooden leg and deep-seated institutional sexism to become a critical operative for the British Special Operations Executive…
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Sally Bedell Smith outlines the public and private trajectory of Elizabeth II, from her unexpected transition to heir presumptive to her Diamond Jubilee.
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Annejet van der Zijl reconstructs the life of Allene Tew, a woman born into a modest family in Chautauqua County, New York, during the late nineteenth century.
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Anderson Cooper traces the trajectory of his maternal family from Cornelius Vanderbilt’s nineteenth-century steamship and railroad empire to the eventual depletion of the massive fortune.
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler hid in a hollowed-out woodpile for three days before slipping past the outer perimeter of Auschwitz.
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No One Here Gets Out Alive
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman document the life and death of Jim Morrison, the frontman of The Doors.
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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey departed England on a small yacht, seeking an alternative to the stagnant routines of suburban life.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Alison Weir’s historical account reconstructs the lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Kate Moore
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard’s husband committed her to the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane because she challenged his religious authority and asserted her intellectual independence.
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Mornings on Horseback
Also clear-cut · history, biography
David McCullough chronicles the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, focusing on the two decades between 1869 and 1886.
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Also clear-cut · history, biography
David McCullough recounts the 1788 settlement of Marietta, Ohio, following a group of New Englanders led by Manasseh Cutler and Rufus Putnam into the Northwest Territory.
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