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Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)

Tom Holland
Athelstan Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241187821

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Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs) by Tom Holland Pdf

The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and was hailed as Rex totius Britanniae: 'King of the whole of Britain'. Tom Holland recounts this extraordinary story with relish and drama, transporting us back to a time of omens, raven harbingers and blood-red battlefields. As well as giving form to the figure of Athelstan - devout, shrewd, all too aware of the precarious nature of his power, especially in the north - he introduces the great figures of the age, including Alfred and his daughter Aethelflaed, 'Lady of the Mercians', who brought Athelstan up at the Mercian court. Making sense of the family rivalries and fractious conflicts of the Anglo-Saxon rulers, Holland shows us how a royal dynasty rescued their kingdom from near-oblivion and fashioned a nation that endures to this day.

Athelstan

Tom Holland
Athelstan Book PDF

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Penguin Monarchs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0241187818

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Athelstan by Tom Holland Pdf

The formation of England happened against the oddsthe division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world. But King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex, his son Edward expanded it, and his grandson Athelstan finally united Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and became Rex totius Britanniae. Tom Holland recounts this extraordinarily exciting story with relish and drama. We meet the great figures of the age, including Alfred and his daughter Aethelflaed, 'Lady of the Mercians', who brought Athelstan up at the Mercian court. At the end of the book we understand the often confusing history of the Anglo-Saxon kings better than ever before. -- Amazon.com

Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)

Edmund King
Henry I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Edmund King
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978994

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Henry I (Penguin Monarchs) by Edmund King Pdf

'To be a medieval king was a job of work ... This was a man who knew how to run a complex organization. He was England's CEO' The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I came to unchallenged power only after two of his brothers died in strange hunting accidents and he had imprisoned the other. He was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness, and through his dynastic legacy. Edmund King's engrossing portrait shows a strikingly charismatic, intelligent and fortunate man, whose rule was looked back on as the real post-conquest founding of England as a new realm: wealthy, stable, bureaucratised and self-confident.

Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)

Richard Abels
Aethelred the Unready Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Richard Abels
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141979502

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Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs) by Richard Abels Pdf

A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and troubled reign of Aethelred II the 'Unraed', the 'Ill-Advised'. It is characteristic of Aethelred's reign that its greatest surviving work of literature, the poem The Battle of Maldon, should be a record of heroic defeat. Perhaps no ruler could have stemmed the encroachment of wave upon wave of Viking raiders, but Aethelred will always be associated with that failure. Richard Abels is Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England and Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

George V (Penguin Monarchs)

David Cannadine
George V Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141976907

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George V (Penguin Monarchs) by David Cannadine Pdf

For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family values and duty. George V was an effective war-leader and inventor of 'the House of Windsor'. In an era of ever greater media coverage--frequently filmed and initiating the British Empire Christmas broadcast--George became for 25 years a universally recognised figure. He was also the only British monarch to take his role as Emperor of India seriously. While his great rivals (Tsar Nicolas and Kaiser Wilhelm) ended their reigns in catastrophe, he plodded on. David Cannadine's sparkling account of his reign could not be more enjoyable, a masterclass in how to write about Monarchy, that central--if peculiar--pillar of British life.

AEthelstan

Sarah Foot
AEthelstan Book PDF

Author : Sarah Foot
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300160376

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AEthelstan by Sarah Foot Pdf

The powerful and innovative King AEthelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful fifteen years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across Europe, and succeeded in creating the first unified kingdom of the English. To claim for him the title of "first English monarch" is no exaggeration.In this nuanced portrait of AEthelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written. She traces his life through the various spheres in which he lived and worked, beginning with the intimate context of his family, then extending outward to his unusual multiethnic royal court, the Church and his kingdom, the wars he conducted, and finally his death and legacy. Foot describes a sophisticated man who was not only a great military leader but also a worthy king. He governed brilliantly, developed creative ways to project his image as a ruler, and devised strategic marriage treaties and gift exchanges to cement alliances with the leading royal and ducal houses of Europe. AEthelstan's legacy, seen in the new light of this masterful biography, is inextricably connected to the very forging of England and early English identity.

Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs)

David Horspool
Oliver Cromwell Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : David Horspool
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141979397

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Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs) by David Horspool Pdf

Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him. Yet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait of England's Lord Protector, Cromwell, the Puritan son of Cambridgeshire gentry, wielded such influence that it would be a pretence to say that power really lay with the collective. The years of Cromwell's rise to power, shaped by a decade-long civil war, saw a sustained attempt at the collective government of England; the first attempts at a real Union of Britain; the beginnings of empire; a radically new solution to the idea of a national religion; atrocities in Ireland; and the readmission to England of the Jews, a people officially banned for over three and a half centuries. At the end of it, Oliver Cromwell had emerged as the country's sole ruler: to his enemies, and probably to most of his countrymen, his legacy looked as likely to last as that of the Stuart dynasty he had replaced.

William I (Penguin Monarchs)

Marc Morris
William I Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141977850

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William I (Penguin Monarchs) by Marc Morris Pdf

On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside, thinking shouts of acclamation were treachery, torched the surrounding buildings. To later chroniclers, it was an omen of the catastrophes to come. During the reign of William the Conqueror, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at any point before or since. Marc Morris's concise and gripping biography sifts through the sources of the time to give a fresh view of the man who changed England more than any other, as old ruling elites were swept away, enemies at home and abroad (including those in his closest family) were crushed, swathes of the country were devastated and the map of the nation itself was redrawn, giving greater power than ever to the king. When, towards the end of his reign, William undertook a great survey of his new lands, his subjects compared it to the last judgement of God, the Domesday Book. England had been transformed forever.

Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)

Carl Watkins
Stephen Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Carl Watkins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141977140

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Stephen (Penguin Monarchs) by Carl Watkins Pdf

Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rules ordering succession, conflict between members of William the Conqueror's family were inevitable. But there was another problem, too: Stephen himself. With the nobility of England and Normandy anxious about the prospect of a world without the tough love of the old king Henry I, Stephen styled himself a political panacea, promising strength without oppression. As external threats and internal resistance to his rule accumulated, it was a promise he was unable to keep. Unable to transcend his flawed claim to the throne, and to make the transition from nobleman to king, Stephen's actions betrayed uneasiness in his role, his royal voice never quite ringing true. The resulting violence that spread throughout England was not, or not only, the work of bloodthirsty men on the make. As Watkins shows in this resonant new portrait, it arose because great men struggled to navigate a new and turbulent kind of politics that arose when the king was in eclipse.

Æthelflæd: A Ladybird Expert Book

Tom Holland
thelfl d A Ladybird Expert Book Book PDF

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405933438

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Æthelflæd: A Ladybird Expert Book by Tom Holland Pdf

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES. - Who was Æthelflæd? - What role did she play in the founding of England? - How has her legacy lasted to this day? DISCOVER the epic history of England's forgotten queen. Planting cities, sponsoring learning and defeating her people's enemies, Æthelflæd laid the foundations of a kingdom that lasts to this day. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMAN THAT ENGLISH HISTORY FORGOT Tom Holland's Æthelflæd puts a spotlight on this formidable leader, pulling her out of the shadowy history of the dark ages.

Kings and Queens of Early Britain

Geoffrey Ashe
Kings and Queens of Early Britain Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Ashe
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613733721

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Kings and Queens of Early Britain by Geoffrey Ashe Pdf

Geoffrey Ashe skillfully weaves all the different accounts, legends, literature, historical documents into one continuous narrative that recreates in intriguing detail all the rulers and events, real or mythical, that are part of the rich tapestry of early history in Britain.

Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)

Piers Brendon
Edward VIII Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241196427

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Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs) by Piers Brendon Pdf

'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day. Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon's superb biography traces Edward's tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.

Girl Code

Cara Alwill Leyba
Girl Code Book PDF

Author : Cara Alwill Leyba
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525533092

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Girl Code by Cara Alwill Leyba Pdf

Women around the world have responded to Cara Alwill Leyba’s Girl Code with a resounding YES. Companies like Kate Spade and Macy’s have brought her in to teach “the Code.” Inc. magazine named Girl Code one of the “Top 9 Inspiring Books Every Female Entrepreneur Should Read” alongside Lean In, #Girlboss, and Thrive. A few years ago, I made a crazy claim in the first edition of Girl Code: that in today’s competitive marketplace, the fiercest thing a female entrepreneur can do is to support other women. Something dynamic happens when women genuinely show up for each other. When we lose the facades, cut the bullsh*t, and truly have each other’s backs. When we stop pretending everything is perfect, and show the messy, beautiful parts of ourselves and our work—which all look awfully similar. When we talk about our fears, our missteps, and our breakdowns. And most importantly, when we share our celebrations, our breakthroughs, and our solutions. I’m convinced that there’s no reason to hoard information, connections, or insight. Wisdom is meant to be shared, so let’s start sharing what we’ve learned to make each other better. Let’s start building each other up. Let’s live up to our potential and start ruling the world. Girl Code is a roadmap for female entrepreneurs, professional women, “side hustlers” (those with a day job plus a part-time small business), and any­one in between. This book won’t teach you how to build a multimillion-dollar company. It won’t teach you about systems or finance. But it will teach you how to build confidence in yourself, reconnect with your “why,” eradicate jealousy, and ultimately learn the power of connection. Because at the end of the day, that’s what life and business are all about.

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

Stella Tillyard
George IV Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : Stella Tillyard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978857

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George IV (Penguin Monarchs) by Stella Tillyard Pdf

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.

William II (Penguin Monarchs)

John Gillingham
William II Penguin Monarchs Book PDF

Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141978567

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William II (Penguin Monarchs) by John Gillingham Pdf

William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously with his older brother Robert over their father's inheritance - but he also handed out effective justice, leaving as his legacy one of the most extraordinary of all medieval buildings, Westminster Hall.