Biography & Autobiography : Royalty

Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. more...

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Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The Very Interesting People series includes the following titles:. 1.William Shakespeare by Peter Holland. 2. George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton. 3. Charles Dickens by Michael Slater. 4. Charles Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne. 5. Isaac Newton by Richard S.Westfall. 6. Elizabeth I by Patrick Collinson. 7. George III by John Cannon. 8. Benjamin Disraeli by Jonathan Parry. 9. Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes. 10. John Ruskin by Robert Hewison. 11. James Joyce by Bruce Stewart. 12. John Milton by Gordon Campbell. 13. Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler. 14. Henry VIII by Eric Ives. 15. Queen Victoria by K. D. Reynolds and H. C. G. Matthew. 16. Winston Churchill by Paul Addison. 17. Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill. 18. Thomas Paine by Mark Philp. 19. J. M. W. Turner by Luke Herrmann. 20. William and Mary by Tony Claydon and W. A. Speck - more...

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This nine-essay volume provides the first full-length, detailed exploration of the kingdom of Scotland during the reign of Alexander II (1214-49), and the most extensive analysis of this key state-builder and his policies. more...

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Keith Stringer looks at the relationship between government, warfare, and the rise and fall of the medieval states in this reassessment of Stephen's ability as a ruler. more...

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The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in WWI and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic. Petropoulos shows how the princes, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler. Prince Philipp, son-in-law to the King of Italy, became the highest-ranking prince in the Nazi state and developed a close personal relationship with Hitler and Hermann Goering. Prince Christoph was a prominent SS officer and head of the most important intelligence agency in the Third Reich. In return, the princes made the Nazis socially acceptable to wealthy, high-society patrons. Prince Philipp even introduced Goering to Mussolini at a critical stage in the Nazi Party's development and later served as a liaison between Hitler and the Italian dictator. Permitted access to Hessen family private papers and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Petropoulos follows the story of the House of Hesse through to its tragic denouement--the princes' betrayal and persecution by an increasingly paranoid Hitler and prosecution and denazification by the Allies. Royals and the Reich is a startling and unique portrait of the vanished world of prewar aristocrats and a royal family caught in one of the most tumultuous periods in history. more...

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