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Looking for read-alikes for The Unfortunate Colonel Despard by Mike Jay? These 24 titles overlap in Biographies & Memoirs, Great Britain, and Europe and overall literary texture.

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Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical Of King James’s Irish Army List (1689) — John D’Alton

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The Court and Times of James the First; illustrated by authentic and confidential letters, from various public and private collections. — Thomas Birch

The Court and Times of James the First; illustrated by authentic and confidential letters, from various public and private collections.

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

History of Mary Queen of Scots — Jacob Abbott

History of Mary Queen of Scots

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake With Numerous Original Letters From Him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of State — John Barrow

The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake With Numerous Original Letters From Him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of State

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire — Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire — Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Chief of the Pilgrims, Or, the Life and Time of William Brewster Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company That Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, in 1620 — Ashbel Steele

Chief of the Pilgrims, Or, the Life and Time of William Brewster Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company That Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, in 1620

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

A History of the Baptist Association in Wales From the Year 1650, to the Year 1790 — Joshua Thomas

A History of the Baptist Association in Wales From the Year 1650, to the Year 1790

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

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Life and Letters of Captain Marryat; Volume 1

Florence Marryat

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Curiosities Of Great Britain: England And Wales Delineated, Historical, Entertaining And Commercial (1854) — Thomas Dugdale

Curiosities Of Great Britain: England And Wales Delineated, Historical, Entertaining And Commercial (1854)

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Sir Francis Bacon Life, Legacy, and Lasting Influence — GEORGE. WILSON

Sir Francis Bacon Life, Legacy, and Lasting Influence

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The Asiatic in England Sketches of Sixteen Years’ Work Among Orientals — Joseph Salter

The Asiatic in England Sketches of Sixteen Years’ Work Among Orientals

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Evidence on Conditions in Ireland Comprising the Complete Testimony, Affidavits and Exhibits Presented Before the American Commission on Conditions in Ireland — Albert Coyle

Evidence on Conditions in Ireland Comprising the Complete Testimony, Affidavits and Exhibits Presented Before the American Commission on Conditions in Ireland

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Robert Owen: The Founder Of Socialism In England — Arthur John Booth

Robert Owen: The Founder Of Socialism In England

Arthur John Booth

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare CD: 1599 — James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare CD: 1599

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Memoirs of the Court of England From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second — John Heneage Jesse

Memoirs of the Court of England From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second

John Heneage Jesse

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Confessions Of A Convert (1913) — Robert Hugh Benson

Confessions Of A Convert (1913)

Robert Hugh Benson

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

A Relation: Or Rather A True Account Of The Island Of England; With Sundry Particulars Of The Customs Of These People And Of The Royal Revenues Under King Henry The Seventh, About The Year 1500 (1847) — Sneyd

A Relation: Or Rather A True Account Of The Island Of England; With Sundry Particulars Of The Customs Of These People And Of The Royal Revenues Under King Henry The Seventh, About The Year 1500 (1847)

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

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Who’s who in the Bible

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The White Slaves of England Being True Pictures of Certain Social Conditions in the Kingdom of England in the Year 1897 — Robert Harborough Sherard

The White Slaves of England Being True Pictures of Certain Social Conditions in the Kingdom of England in the Year 1897

Robert Harborough Sherard

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The Birth of British Airpower Hugh Trenchard, World War I, and the Royal Air Force — Peter Dye

The Birth of British Airpower Hugh Trenchard, World War I, and the Royal Air Force

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Lives of the Princesses of England, From the Norman Conquest; Volume 1 — Mary Anne Everett Green

Lives of the Princesses of England, From the Norman Conquest; Volume 1

Mary Anne Everett Green

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Dad’s Army Goes to War The Cast and Their Real Wartime Service — Melody Foreman

Dad’s Army Goes to War The Cast and Their Real Wartime Service

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

Lord Carteret, a Political Biography, 1690-1763 — Archibald Ballantyne

Lord Carteret, a Political Biography, 1690-1763

Archibald Ballantyne

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

The Painter’s Fire A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution — Zara Anishanslin

The Painter’s Fire A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

Zara Anishanslin

Themes: Biographies & Memoirs • Great Britain • Europe

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