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Dante's Invention
The History Behind Dan Brown's Inferno
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
A biography of Dante from the author of the acclaimed Heloise & Abelard explores Inferno's meaning and how and why it was written, making fascinating companion reading for Dan Brown's forthcoming Inferno The young Dante Alighieri was a love-sick poet who concentrated on writing rarefied, intellectual...
by John Van der Kiste
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the...
Third Plantagenet
George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
George, Duke of Clarence has had so little written about him, that historians face many questions: Where was he born? What was he like? What set him against his brother Edward IV? He played a central role in the Wars of the Roses—but was he for York or Lancaster? Is the story of his drowning in...
Charles V
The World Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Charles V (1500-58), King of Aragon, ruler of Castile and Roman Emperor is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European monarchs. Son of Philip the Handsome and Juana, Queen of Castile, who was regarded as insane, by the age of nineteen he was the most powerful monarch in Europe....
Lady Jane Grey
Nine Days Queen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
For most, the name of Lady Jane Grey means the "nine days queen," the child who was used as a pawn in the power politics of the Tudor realm by both her parents and the Northumberlands. This volume tells the tragic story of Jane's life and death, but also reveals her to be a woman of unusual...
Elizabeth Woodville
Mother of the Princes in the Tower
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
This is the first new account of Elizabeth's life for over fifty years and David Baldwin sets out to reveal the true story of this complex and intriguing woman. Hers was certainly a dramatic life with dizzying reversals of fortune; from poverty in 1461 to queenship in 1464, followed by deposition,...
Royal Murders
Hatred, Revenge and the Seizing of Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
The motives, means, and consequences of the murders among members of Europe’s ruling families are examined in fascinating detail. Plucking true stories due to their historical significance and sheer intrigue, this book relates violent deaths amid royal splendor and the overthrow of tyrants by oppressed...
Lost Prince
The Survival of Richard of York
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
On December 22, 1550 an old bricklayer named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. Unusually for a bricklayer, he had been able to read Latin and, when pressed, he had claimed to be a natural son of King Richard III and to have met him the day before the Battle of Bosworth. Yet had he...
James I
Scotland's King of England
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimize the longer term consequences of his reign has gone too far. For, in spite of genuine idealism and flashes...
Katyn 1940
The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the Second World War and its political implications are still being felt today. Information surrounding Katyn came to light with Russian perestroika, which made it possible to disclose a key document...
by Jonathan Falconer
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots. This newly illustrated anniversary edition of...
Mother Country
Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the "front line" during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London, and Manchester—and many volunteered as...
RMS Olympic
Titanic's Sister
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The definitive study on this famous and highly successful White Star linerSitting around a dining room table in 1907, the owners of the White Star Line discussed their competition to the newly-built Cunard liners, Lusitania and Mauretania. From that smoke-filled room came the first designs of three...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Exploring a host of topics in a humorous and engaging style, this little gem of a book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about Britain and the things that have made it great. Within this volume are such chapters as inventors and...