The Silent Wanderings: The Library

The Library

Books to Read:

The Abolition of Liberty by Peter Hitchens
Canada and other Matters of Opinion by Rex Murphy
General Sketch of European History by E.A. Freeman
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Raiders of the Mohawk: The Story of the Butler's Rangers by Orlo Miller
On Loyalist Trails by John F. Hayes
The Government of Great Britain by Graeme C. Moodie
Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman
Wellington: Years of Sword by Elizabeth Longford
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Gerard
The Beginnings of English Society by Dorothy Whitelock
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Wacousta by John Richardson
The Imperialist by Sara Jeanette Duncan
Soldiers Three by Rudyard Kipling
European Society 1500-1700 by Henry Kamen
Forgotten Victory by Gary Sheffield
My Years With Churchill by Norman MacGovern
English Constitutional Conflicts of the 17th Century by J.R. Tanner
King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
A History of Spain and Portugal by William C. Atkinson
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
English History 1914-1945 by A.J.P. Taylor
A History of the First World War by John Buchan
John Macnab by John Buchan
The Point of Departure by Robin Cook
The Second World War by Martin Gilbert
What's Right by David Frum
In Defence of Civility by Hugh Segal
Elizabeth the Queen by Alison Weir
Elizabeth I, CEO by Alan Axelrod
A Crown for Elizabeth by Mary M. Luke
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
After Blair by Kieron O'Hara
Winston Churchill and the Second Front by Trumbull Higgins
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran
Disraeli: A Picture of a Victorian by Andre Maurois
Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman by Randolph S. Churchill
The Hundred Years War by Robin Neillands
The Encyclopaedia of The Victorian World
Modern England: From the 18th Century to the Present by R.K. Webb
Crises by Henry Kissinger
The Reagans by Anne Edwards
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist by Philip Magnus
The British At the Gates by Robin Reilly
The Private Papers of Hore Belisha by R.J. Minney
A Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky
The House of Commons 1754-1780
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh
A History of Modern France by Alfred Cobban
Finest Hour by Martin Gilbert
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
A Brief History of British Sea Power by David Howarth
A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of King George VI by Robert Rhodes James
Former Naval Person: Churchill and the Wars at Sea by Richard Hough
King Edward the Seventh by Philip Magnus
Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor by Christopher Sykes
England 1870-1914 by Robert Ensor
Celsius 7/7 by Michael Gove
The Cameron Delusion by Peter Hitchens
~~Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery~~ ~~by Eric Mexatas~~
The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
Gordon by Dr. Brad Faught
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson
The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
~~Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age: 1792-1815~~
After America by Mark Steyn
Mrs King: The Life & Times of Isabel Mackenzie King by Charlotte Gray
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour by Judith Martin

For other books in my library, please see my Goodreads Account here.

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Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

My Utmost For His Highest: Classic Edition

Wacousta, Or, the Prophecy: a Tale of the Canadas

The Abolition Of Liberty: The Decline Of Order And Justice In England

Daughters of Britannia The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics

The Man Who Would Be King: and Other Stories

Elizabeth I CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire

The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8

The Second World War: A Complete History

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"I prefer the liberties we now enjoy to the liberalism they profess, and find something better than the Rights of Man in the Rights of Englishmen."~Benjamin Disraeli

When comparing republics to monarchies, there are two sides of the coin- the better side is the one with the head of the monarch.
~My sister

It is not to be thought of that the Flood
Of British freedom, which to the open Sea
Of the world's praise from dark antiquity
Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, unwithstood,"
Road by which all might come and go that would,
And bear out freights of worth to foreign lands;
That this most famous Stream in Bogs and Sands
Should perish; and to evil and to good
Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung
Armoury of the invincible Knights of old:
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. In every thing we are sprung
Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
~William Wordsworth

The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."
Winston Churchill

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes

Not by the power of Commerce, Art, or Pen
Shall our great Empire stand; nor has it stood:
But by the noble deeds of noble men,
Heroic lives, and Heroes’ outpoured blood.

~Frederick George Scott

Duty cannot exist without faith.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

~William Shakespeare

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