Desmond Seward
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight through the heather are well known, but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. Based...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
One of the most dramatic periods of British history, the Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VIIs victory, it continued underground into the following century with plots, pretenders and subterfuge by the ousted white rose faction. In a brand new interpretation of this turning point in history, well known historian Desmond Seward reviews the story of the Tudors' seizure of the throne...
Author
Language
English
Description
From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; the splendid...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the most dramatic periods of British history, the Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VIIs victory, it continued underground into the following century with plots, pretenders and subterfuge by the ousted white rose faction. In a brand new interpretation of this turning point in history, well known historian Desmond Seward reviews the story of the Tudors' seizure of the throne...
11) Marie Antoinette
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the consort of Louis XVI, King of France, until her execution during the French Revolution in 1793.
"Giddy and extravagant, Marie Antoinette came to France as a child-bride from Austria, France's traditional enemy. But the hatred she aroused at Versailles seems out of proportion to her faults, which were mostly those of an inexperienced girl suddenly presiding as Queen over the most formal and splendid Court in Europe. It was not the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler were two of history's greatest dictators. This book examines the lives of these remarkable men and demonstrates the numerous striking parallels between their careers and their roles in shaping the destiny of modern Europe.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
No family in history ascended the thrones of Europe so quickly - or were deposed so fast - as the Bonapartes. Like some mafia capo, Napoleon heaped honors and riches on his siblings, giving them the crowns of Spain, Naples, Tuscany, Rome, Holland and Westphalia. In Napoleon's Family Desmond Seward recounts the saga of this extraordinary clan of social-climbing Corsican emigres. Their back-biting and bickering for honors was incessant, often vicious...