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Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn' by John Ashdown-Hill
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

Elizabeth Lambert For the sake of clarity we had perhaps better establish that Edward IV’s last known mistress, Elizabeth Lambert, is the person who still frequently masquerades under the pseudonym ...
( Category: Royalty May 28,2019 )
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Robert Asprey [ROBERT B. ASPREY]

Notes 1 Bourrienne, I, 143. 2 Corr. IV. Nrs. 2858, Cairo, 27 July 1798; 2868, 2870, Cairo, 28 July 1798. 3 Corr. XXIX, 453. Eugène Beauharnais was sent to inform ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State May 28,2019 )
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch

8 BRUTUS [85–42 B.C.] 1. Marcus Brutus was a descendant of that Junius Brutus in whose honour the ancient Romans erected a statue of bronze and placed it in the ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
Constantine by Paul Stephenson
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Paul Stephenson [STEPHENSON, PAUL]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
Germanicus by Lindsay Powell
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Lindsay Powell

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350--30 BC by John D Grainger
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Kings and War The ancient sources imply that the main business of kings was warfare, though this is more the result of their omission of other activities than ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Montefiore Simon Sebag
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Montefiore, Simon Sebag [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART EIGHT War: The Triumphant Genius 1942–1945 39 The Supremo of Stalingrad During Stalingrad, the Supremo usually fell asleep wearing all his clothes on the metal camp bed that stood ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2019 )
Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints by Craughwell Thomas J
mobi |eng | 2006-09-18 | Author:Craughwell, Thomas J. [Craughwell, Thomas J.]

St. Thomas Becket, Hedonist [c. 1120–1170] FEAST DAY: December 29 His name was Thomas Becket. Not Thomas à Becket—which he never used and no one ever called him until sometime ...
( Category: Saints May 27,2019 )
Mithridates the Great: Rome's Indomitable Enemy by Matyszak Philip
mobi |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Matyszak, Philip [Matyszak, Philip]

Peace talks Whilst Sulla delicately fenced with the envoys of Archelaus on talks about talks, Fimbria took his army into Asia Minor and, by damaging Mithridates there, improved Sulla’s negotiating ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash by Lourie Richard
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-17 | Author:Lourie, Richard [Lourie, Richard]

PART FIVE NORTH- AND EASTWARD … With escalating terrorist threats at home, including in the Chinese heartland, and Uighur militants working with extremist groups like the Pakistani Taliban and the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union May 27,2019 )
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Rappaport Helen
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Rappaport, Helen [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter 10 ‘The Baggage Will Be in Utter Danger at All Times’ In the entire Romanov story there is no more enigmatic, elusive figure than Vasily Yakovlev. Debate has never ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Norton Elizabeth
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

Thomas Seymour’s emotional state was not helped by the tense wait for news of his wife’s labor. It was the same for Elizabeth, whose health continued to be poor at ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Henry I (Penguin Monarchs): The Father of His People by King Edmund
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-25 | Author:King, Edmund [King, Edmund]

4 Infertility Henry and his court returned to England on 25 November 1120. The king had made the Channel crossing, in one direction or another, at least twenty times. The ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Royal Panoply by Erickson Carolly
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-03-31 | Author:Erickson, Carolly [Erickson, Carolly]

ELIZABETH I (1558–1603) “I KNOW I HAVE THE BODY OF A WEAK AND FEEBLE WOMAN, BUT I HAVE THE HEART AND STOMACH OF A KING.” —ELIZABETH TUDOR When the newborn ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
The History of the Kings of Britain (Classics) by Geoffrey of Monmouth
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Geoffrey of Monmouth

Part Five * * * THE PROPHECIES OF MERLIN [vii.1] I had not yet reached this point in my story when Merlin began to be talked about very much, and ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )

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