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Naples - A Traveller's Reader by Desmond Seward
Category: Travel
Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political centre of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, ruled over successively by the house of Anjou, Aragon and Bourb ...Show more
Old Puglia: A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy by Desmond Seward Susan Mountgar
Category: Travel
In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. The region boasts beautiful landscapes and miles of dramatic coastline, cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles, and a tremendous wealth of B ...Show more
The Demon's Brood: The Plantagenet Dynasty That Forged the English Nation by Desmond Seward
Category: History
The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family - from Henry II, to Richard III. Four kings were murdered, two came close to deposition and another was killed in a battle by rebels. Shakespeare wrote plays about six of them, further entrenching them in the National Myth. Based on majo ...Show more
The Hundred Years War - The English in France 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward
Category: Non-Fiction
From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years W ...Show more
The Last White Rose - The Secret Wars of the Tudors by Desmond Seward
Category: Fiction
One of the most dramatic periods of British history, the Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VII's victory, it continued underground into the following century with plots, pretenders and subterfuge by the ousted white rose faction. I ...Show more
The Monks of War - The Military Religious Orders by Desmond Seward
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Arkana Ser.
The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, devoted to charitable works. The Monks of War is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century.The Templar ...Show more
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