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Lady Jane Grey Classic Histories Series: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden
Category: History | Series: Classic Histories Series
Jane Grey's tragedy was her royal blood. As Henry VIII's great-niece she stood perilously close to the throne and from early childhood was used as a pawn in the deadly power game of Tudor politics. Jane was not happy at home - she once famously remarked that she thought herself in hell in her parents' c ...Show more
The Crusades Classic Histories Series: The War Against Islam 1096-1798 by Malcolm Billings
Category: European History | Series: Classic Histories Series
In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolution to anyone who would fight to reclaim the Holy Land. With God at their backs, the first Christian crusaders embarked on an unprecedented religious war. While addressing the contribution of flamboyant characters like Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, Malcolm Bill ...Show more
The Lost Prince Classic Histories Series: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin
Category: History | Series: Classic Histories Series
The story of the Princes in the Tower is one of history's most enduring, poignant and romanticised tales. But were the princes really murdered? David Baldwin presents a fresh new approach to the mystery and reveals, for the first time, the true fate of the younger prince, Richard, Duke of York. David Ba ...Show more
The Vikings (Classic Histories Series) by Magnus Magnusson
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Classic Histories Series
The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a people who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striki ...Show more
The Young Victoria Classic Histories Series by Alison Plowden
Category: History | Series: Classic Histories Series
'I delight in this work', wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'. But her early years were difficult ones. Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an atmosphere thick with f ...Show more
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