Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.
A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe'A majestic, brilliant account of the birth of an empire.
La storia entusiasmante di Margherita del Wessex, moglie di Malcolm III Canmore, re del regno di Alba, prende vita in questa edizione per studenti e docenti appositamente creata per l’uso in aula e a casa.
An instant bestseller when first published in 1929-biographies of twelve bold individuals from history and what they did to separate themselves from the pack.
In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject.
For many, Richard III is an obsession-the Richard III Society has a huge membership, and Shakespeare's Histories have contributed to, if not his popularity, certainly his notoriety.
Power, pageantry, and prideQueen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, reigning over subjects on every continent, and exercising undisputed mastery of the oceans in between.
In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject.
A Rainha Elizabeth Tudor ainda é conhecida hoje como “Gloriana”, por conta de sua pequena frota de navios ágeis que derrotou a Armada Espanhola, que possuía 131 galeões, no Canal da Mancha em 6 de agosto de 1588.
Mit diesem wunderschönen Buch-Set aus „Kaiserin Wu Zetian“, „Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, die Kriegerprinzessin von Deheubarth“ und „Kaiserin Matilda von England“ wird das Mittelalter zum Leben erweckt.
