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"Daily telegraph" book of obituaries : celebration of eccentric lives
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in "The Daily Telegraph".
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Great houses of England & Wales
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Christopher Simon Sykes
Features 25 great houses, including some lesser-known masterpieces and some famous showplaces. The photographs capture the atmosphere, and the anecdotal text concentrates on the families who created and, in many cases, still live in them.
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Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
The first book of its kind on the First Families covering the character, career, writings, ancestry, wives, siblings and descendants of the 39 presidents from George Washington to Ronald Reagan has now been revised, again under the editorship of Hugh Montgomery Massingberd.
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The very best of the Daily Telegraph books of obituaries
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
This is a compilation of the very best of the five best-selling volumes of Daily Telegraph obituaries. The foibles and eccentricities of the dead are evoked as a labour of love, while the reader is introduced to alluring strangers and and a world of elegance and romance.
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The Daily Telegraph third book of obituaries : entertainers
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Focusing on entertainers, this book gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in "The Daily Telegraph". Taking "entertainer" in its broadest sense, it covers the spectrum, from the famous - Liberace, Divine - to the weird, such as circus performers.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: A Celebration of a Life
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Hugh M Massingberd, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph
This is a beautifully illustrated celebration of a remarkable life. This handsome tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - consort to George Vl, mother to Elizabeth II and an indomitable figure in her own right - comes with the backing of Britain's best-selling newspaper, "The Daily Telegraph". Stunning photographs celebrate the ...
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Burke's Royal Families of the World
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Brimming with a splendid assortment of extraordinary facts, unexpected connections, interesting and frequently hilarious anecdotes. It is rich in human character and indeed tells us far more about history than those who have a blinkered prejudice against 'genealogy' may realise.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : woman of the century
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
A tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, consort to King George VI and mother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Year by year Hugh Massingberd explores the life and career of this much-loved figure, from her Scottish childhood and presentation at court as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon to her marriage to the future King, giving him strength ...
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Her Majesty the Queen
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Royal Palaces of Europe
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Montgomery, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
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The London Ritz : a social and architectural history
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, David Watkin, Keith Collie
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Debrett's great British families
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The Daily Telegraph fourth book of obituaries : Rogues
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
These obituaries cover a decade's worth of colourful, often outrageous, larger-than-life picaresque characters, ranging from politicians and lawyers, businessmen and gangsters to female tyrants and "femmes fatales".
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The Daily Telegraph fifth book of obituaries : 20th-century lives
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
The lives chosen represent a cross-section of 20th-century experience - from the Raj and the courts and chancelleries of Old Europe to the Jet Age and global mass-media. But the shrewd character sketches tend to be of dowagers rather than dictators, boffins rather than bureaucrats, popinjays rather than philosophers. For this is an essentially ...
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Diana : the Princess of Wales
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The Daily Telegraph book of obituaries
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in "The Daily Telegraph".
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Great Houses of Ireland
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Christopher Simon Sykes
Ireland boasts an architectural treasure trove of 18th and 19th-century country houses. This text looks at 26 of these county seats, from Curraghmore in County Waterford and Ballywater Park in County Down, to Glin Castle in County Limerick.
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Burke's Royal Palaces of Europe
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Lord of the dance : a Moncreiffe miscellany.
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Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Baronet, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
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The Daily Telegraph record of the Second World War : month by month from 1939 to 1945
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Max Hastings, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
From the pages of Britain's most popular newspaper is the first-hand story of the Second World War. The items selected are presented in chronological sequence so that the narrative unfolds with the immediacy and suspense it generated at the time. Contemporary headlines and photographs combine to convey the atmosphere of a newspaper seeking to ...
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Daydream believer : confessions of a hero worshipper
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
The hugely successful editor of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries turns his gaze inwards, to his own life. Daydream Believer is a wonderfully witty and self-deprecating memoir told through the author's tragi-comic need to worship at the feet of the mighty. Be they school prefects, eccentric uncles, cricketing giants, stars of stage and ...
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Atlas of royal Britain
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Jenny Barling, Norman Bancroft-Hunt
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Blenheim Revisited: The Spencer-Churchills and Their Palace
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The Field book of country houses and their owners : family seats of the British Isles
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Great Houses of Scotland: A History and Guide
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Hugh Montgomery Massingberd, Christopher Simon Sykes (Photographer), Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
'Another bull's' eye! 'was John McEwen's response in the Literary Review to 'this companion to the well-matched partnership's Great Houses of England and Wales', on its original publication in hardback. 'As before', wrote McEwen, 'it is the charm that tells, the humorous and poetic eye for idiosyncrasy which distinguishes both the writing and the ...
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