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The Last Plantagenets

2018-04-03 History
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Release : 2018-04-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Last Plantagenets by : Thomas B. Costain

Download or read book The Last Plantagenets written by Thomas B. Costain. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LAST PLANTAGENTS—A GREAT STORYTELLER’S MOST DAZZLING BESTSELLER Here is Thomas B. Costain’s most magnificent performance, rivaling even THE BLACK ROSE for color and drama. Here are history’s most spectacular Kings and Queens—and a brilliant new probing of the greatest mystery of all time, the death of the Princes in the Tower. “EXCITEMENT...ROMANCE...STRANGER THAN FICTION”—Saturday Review “COLORFUL AND LUSTY”—Christian Science Monitor “WILD, EXTRAVAGANT, BRILLIANT, COURAGEOUS, STIRRING”—San Francisco Examiner “Novelist as well as historian, Mr. Costain is especially interested in personalities and motives and character. He deals throughout with world figures who have kingdoms at stake...Here is an actual record of the heroism of the kings and queens of England and France, their villainies, their weaknesses, their loves and hates...”—Book-of-the-Month-Club News “No man alive writes popular history with greater understanding...what he cares about is the color, drama and pageantry...the personalities, triumphs and disasters...”—New York Times “The familiar Costain ‘touch’ with all its powers...is present here in abundance”—New Haven Register “Happily wedded in author Costain are a scholar’s integrity and the ability to endow history with brilliant colors”—San Francisco Examiner

The Plantagenets

2010-07-07 History
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Release : 2010-07-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Plantagenets by : J. S. Hamilton

Download or read book The Plantagenets written by J. S. Hamilton. This book was released on 2010-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete account of the rulers and politics of the Plantagenet reign.

The Conquering Family

2012-03-07 Fiction
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Release : 2012-03-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 544/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Conquering Family by : Thomas B. Costain

Download or read book The Conquering Family written by Thomas B. Costain. This book was released on 2012-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.

The Plantagenets

2013-04-18 History
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Release : 2013-04-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 282/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Plantagenets by : Dan Jones

Download or read book The Plantagenets written by Dan Jones. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England’s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War, when England’s national identity was forged by the sword.

The Magnificent Century

2012-03-21 Fiction
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Release : 2012-03-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 560/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Magnificent Century by : Thomas B. Costain

Download or read book The Magnificent Century written by Thomas B. Costain. This book was released on 2012-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magnificent Century, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences and theology, as well as in government. Despite all, it was truly a magnificent century. "Combines a love of the subject with factual history. . .a great story." —San Francisco Chronicle A History of the Plantagenets includes The Conquering Family, The Magnificent Century, The Three Edwards and The Last Plantagenets.

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