Chronos Books imprint: 18 books
The Tragic Daughters of Charles I
Mary, Elizabeth & Henrietta Anne
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne, the daughters of King Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, would be brought up against the background of the English Civil War. Mary would marry William, Prince of Orange, and be sent to live in the Netherlands. Elizabeth would remain in England under Parliamentary...
In Just Three Years
Pentecost 1549 to All Saints' 1552 - A Tale of Two Prayer Books
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, is credited with a pivotal role in the English Reformation. As well as playing a leading part, together with Henry's Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in securing the separation of the Church in England from the authority of the Roman Church and the...
The Afterlife of King James IV
Otherworld Legends Of The Scottish King
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
The Afterlife of King James IV explores the survival stories following the Scottish king's defeat at the battle of Flodden in 1513, and how his image and legacy were used in the years that followed when he remained a shadow player in the politics of a shattered kingdom. Keith John Coleman has written...
Lady Katherine Knollys
The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard. She married...
Cromwell was Framed
Ireland 1649
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these seventeenth-century experts concerning Cromwell’s complicity in...
James Fenimore Cooper
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was America’s first novelist, celebrated for his masterpiece, /The Last of the Mohicans/. Over a prolific career he created a national mythology that endures to this day. According to Daniel Webster, “We may read the nation’s history in his life.” Yet Cooper...
The Tudor Brandons
Mary and Charles - Henry VIII's Nearest & Dearest
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This fascinating book studies the life and times of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's dearest sister and his closest companion. Charles rose from being Henry's childhood friend to becoming the Duke of Suffolk; a consummate courtier and diplomat. Mary was always royalty. At first married...
These Chivalrous Brothers
The Mysterious Disappearance of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause célèbre of the nineteenth century. Just before sunset on August 8th 1882 HMS Cockatrice, a small paddle wheel gunboat, appeared off the Egyptian...
Catherine of Braganza
Charles II's Restoration Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch's Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry - she put up with the king's many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire....
Being British
Our Once And Future Selves
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Being British: Our Once & Future Selves is a journey into British culture and identity today, outlining a welcome new story for ourselves in these times of lack of belonging. It's a book for the liberally minded, and those who feel themselves to be post-traditional, not defined by nationality. The book...
by Mark Olly
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
An utterly unique history book that attempts to chronicle the life & times of the real Robyn Hoode from the perspective of a genuine historical character & in the form of a complete journal of his life, & the lives of those around him. The result is possibly the most complete genuine framework for the...
Anne of Cleves
Henry VIII's Unwanted Wife
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting the king decided he liked her not and sought an immediate divorce. After...
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots
The Life of King Henry VIII’s Sister
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII's older sister and became the Queen of Scotland after her marriage to James IV in 1503. Her life was troubled and fraught with tension. She was continually caught between her country of birth and the country she ruled. After James IV’s death, she made the disastrous...
Why The CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X
The Secret Drug Trade in Laos
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA’s secret drug trade in Laos, and the president’s effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president....
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