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by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history and in France, Revolution stalks the land.
Peep behind the shutters of the opulent court of...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt...
Ancient Dynasties
The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns,...
Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty 1756–1822
The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756\. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished...
France at Bay 1870-1871
The Struggle for Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing months, and resolved itself into a contest for Paris...
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II
Downfall of a King’s Favourite
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of ‘the greatest villain of the fourteenth century’, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.
Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England’s eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager....
Gaius Marius
The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Gaius Marius was one of the most remarkable and significant figures of the late Roman Republic. At a time when power tended to be restricted to a clique of influential families, he rose from relatively humble origins to attain the top office of consul. He even went on to hold the post an unprecedented...
by Nick Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class and changed the nation forever. Today protesters wear his mask, families burn his effigy, and he is an instantly recognizable name and face. But...
by Geoffrey Hindley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Great sieges changed the course of medieval history, yet siege warfare, the dominant military activity of the period, is rarely given the attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hindley's highly readable new account of this vital but neglected aspect of medieval warfare looks at the subject from every angle....
Cataclysm 90 BC
The Forgotten War that Almost Destroyed Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A dramatic account of a rebellion against the Roman republic—by a confederation of its Italian allies.
We know of Rome’s reputation for military success against foreign enemies. Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week’s march from the capital....
The Late Lord
The Life of John Pitt - 2nd Earl of Chatham
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as ‘the late Lord Chatham’, the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition,...
by Lynda Telford
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life.
The most famous and influential of the victims were the two people...
A Georgian Heroine
The Intriguing Life of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
“A very fair and balanced portrait of one of the Regency era’s most remarkable—and most unknown—women” from the authors of A Right Royal Scandal (Jacqueline Reiter, author of Earl of Shadows).
Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs lived an incredible life, one which proved that fact is often...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest bidders, and what was the truth behind George III's supposed secret marriage to a pretty Quaker?With...