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The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses.
The events of the Wars ...
The reign of Edward II (1307-27) was a series of total disasters, making him unsuccessful to an extent almost without equal. He failed to be kingly, preferring ditching an...
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and pop...
A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors—the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty—filled with spies, plots, counterplot...
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or thei...
King Henry VI is proving to be an unstable monarch, prone to bouts of mysterious illness and susceptible to manipulation from others. Richard of York, the most powerful ma...
The Wars of the Roses were not just fought by men on the battlefield. Behind the scenes, there were daughters, wives, mistresses, mothers and queens whose lives and influe...
Based on archival sources that have not previously appeared in print, this history of the Wars of the Roses is told from the perspective of the women behind some of the ke...
The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rival...
Ранняя книга Грэма Грина о лорде Рочестере – знаменитом поэте периода Реставрации, герое-любовнике, придворном шуте и театральном меценате, отважном воине и трусливом убий...
Карл II.
Король, хорошо известный нам по роману "Десять лет спустя" Александра Дюма...
Но - каким он был не в книгах, а в действительности?
Покровителем наук и искусс...
He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marr...
Ричард III (1452-1485), пожалуй, самый известный и самый загадочный король Средневековья. Он долгие годы был верным вассалом своего старшего брата – Эдуарда IV Йорка (1461...
Oswald Mosley was an English aristocrat who made his mark on British politics as the founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists. A man of intellect and determinat...
Было бы естественно ожидать от любимчиков монарших особ, что они стремятся любой ценой сохранить благосклонность августейших покровителей. Однако же в истории нередки случ...
