"When Hitler unleashed a fierce barrage of weapons on the defiant capital of the United Kingdom and England, London's resilient citizens were undaunted. With colorful detail and rich insight, historian Maureen Waller takes readers through London in the last year of war. She reveals the magnificence of human spirit that carried a besieged people through agonizing travails and the long, giddy transformation the metropolis made as it passed through battle,...

A narrative portrait of the six women who have ruled England captures their intimate lives and reigns, assessing their achievements from a female perspective and showing how each faced personal sacrifices and emotional dilemmas in her pursuit of political power.