Princes At War

Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408845097

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Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury Pdf

In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era – the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson; Prince Henry preferred the sporting life of a country squire; the glamorous and hedonistic Prince George, Duke of Kent, was considered a wild card; and stammering George VI felt himself woefully unprepared for the demanding role of King. As Hitler's Third Reich tore up the boundaries of Europe and Britain braced itself for war, the new king struggled to manage internal divisions within the royal family. Drawing on many new sources including from the Royal Archives, Princes at War goes behind the palace doors to tell the thrilling drama of Britain at war.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429995750

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The Merchants' War by Charles Stross Pdf

Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose. Now, in The Merchants' War, Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate--if she lives long enough to find out. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610394048

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Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury Pdf

In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era -- the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: a stammering King George VI, terrified that the world might discover he was unfit to rule a dull-witted Prince Henry, who wanted only a quiet life in the army the too-glamorous Prince George, the Duke of Kent -- a reformed hedonist who found new purpose in the RAF and would become the first royal to die in a mysterious plane crash the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, deemed a Nazi-sympathizer and traitor to his own country -- a man who had given it all up for love Princes at War is a riveting portrait of these four very different men miscast by fate, one of whom had to save the monarchy at a moment when kings and princes from across Europe were washing up on England's shores as the old order was overturned. Scandal and conspiracy swirled around the palace and its courtiers, among them dangerous cousins from across Europe's royal families, gold-digging American socialite Wallis Simpson, and the King's Lord Steward, upon whose estate Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachuted (seemingly by coincidence) as London burned under the Luftwaffe's tireless raids. Deborah Cadbury draws on new research, personal accounts from the royal archives, and other never-before-revealed sources to create a dazzling sequel to The King's Speech and tell the true and thrilling drama of Great Britain at war and of a staggering transformation for its monarchy.

Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781408845240

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Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury Pdf

British author Cadbury explores the many layers involved in the abdication crisis of 1936, which ceded the British crown to the seemingly least prepared of the four sons of George V, George VI, aka Bertie, who revealed himself in the subsequent crisis of war to be the most suitable and stalwart of all.

Author : Derek Prince
Publisher : Chosen Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800793173

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War in Heaven by Derek Prince Pdf

Seeks to explain the existence of evil in the world, identifying the role of Christians in spiritual conflicts, citing the creation of the world, and describing the events in heaven that led to the fall of Lucifer. Original.

Author : Ann P. Linder
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130756

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Princes of the Trenches by Ann P. Linder Pdf

Examination of German literature of the First World War, its themes and underlying vision, and examination of how it differs from the English view of the Great War.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466863941

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The Traders' War by Charles Stross Pdf

The Traders' War -- an omnibus edition of the third and fourth novels in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series. Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was fired—then discovered, to her shock, that her lost family comes from an alternate reality. And although some of them are trying to kill her, she won't stop digging up secrets. Now that she knows she's inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there's a new culture to explore. Her alternate home seems located around the Middle Ages, making her world-hopping relatives top dogs when it comes to "importing" guns and other gadgets from modern-day America. Payment flows from their services to U.S. drug rings—after all, world-skipping drug runners make great traffickers. In a land where women are property, she struggles to remain independent. Yet her outsider ways won't be tolerated, and a highly political arranged marriage is being brokered behind her back. If she can stay alive for long enough to protest. "These books are immense fun."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Richard Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317462194

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Princes of the Yen by Richard Werner Pdf

This eye-opening book offers a disturbing new look at Japan's post-war economy and the key factors that shaped it. It gives special emphasis to the 1980s and 1990s when Japan's economy experienced vast swings in activity. According to the author, the most recent upheaval in the Japanese economy is the result of the policies of a central bank less concerned with stimulating the economy than with its own turf battles and its ideological agenda to change Japan's economic structure. The book combines new historical research with an in-depth behind-the-scenes account of the bureaucratic competition between Japan's most important institutions: the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan. Drawing on new economic data and first-hand eyewitness accounts, it reveals little known monetary policy tools at the core of Japan's business cycle, identifies the key figures behind Japan's economy, and discusses their agenda. The book also highlights the implications for the rest of the world, and raises important questions about the concentration of power within central banks.

Author : Andrew Morton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455527090

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17 Carnations by Andrew Morton Pdf

From the author of New York Times bestseller MEGHAN comes a scandalous historical drama about the secrets hidden between the royal family, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man dubbed "the traitor king" and the Nazi high command, this is a saga of intrigue, betrayal, and deception suffused with a heady aroma of sex and suspicion. For the first time, Morton reveals the full story behind the cover-up of those damning letters and diagrams: the daring heist ordered by King George VI, the smooth duplicity of a Soviet spy as well as the bitter rows and recriminations among the British and American diplomats, politicians, and academics. Drawing on FBI documents, exclusive pictures, and material from the German, Russian, and British royal archives, as well as the personal correspondence of Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Windsors themselves, 17 CARNATIONS is a dazzling historical drama, full of adventure, intrigue, and startling revelations, written by a master of the genre.

Author : Gerald Prenderghast
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476625904

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Richard III and the Princes in the Tower by Gerald Prenderghast Pdf

 The fate of Richard III’s two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More’s history and Shakespeare’s play laid the blame on their conniving uncle. Some later writers, unconvinced of the king’s guilt, have tried (with little success) to portray him as an innocent victim of Tudor propaganda, pointing instead to a number of unlikely culprits, including Henry Tudor and the Duke of Buckingham. This book sifts through the available evidence about the fate of the two boys. The author examines the facts, discusses who may or may not have had information and offers a reasoned solution to the question, What really happened to the two princes?

Author : Claude Schmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944353100

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Princes of War by Claude Schmid Pdf

In this retired Army Colonel's chilling debut novel, two young Army officers encounter brutality, faith, guilt, and fear while fighting for their lives in the chaos of 2004 Iraq.

Author : Aaron Ehasz,Melanie McGanney Ehasz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338752649

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Book Two: Sky (The Dragon Prince #2) by Aaron Ehasz,Melanie McGanney Ehasz Pdf

This second canon novel expands on the events of Season 2 of the epic, Emmy ® Award-winning Netflix fantasy TV show, The Dragon Prince. XADIA IS CALLING... The Dragon Prince has hatched! Now the princes of Katolis, Callum and Ezran, along with Moonshadow elf Rayla, have one goal: deliver the defenseless dragon to his mother in the magical land of Xadia. Things get complicated when the High Mage’s children, Claudia and Soren, track down the questing princes. Should Callum and Ezran trust two humans they’ve known forever, or the elf they’ve just met? In Katolis, High Mage Lord Viren schemes to gain the support of the other human kingdoms, and that of a much more mysterious ally... The tensions of war between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms are ready to explode. As fiery battles erupt and hidden truths come to light, friendships will be tested, plans will be set into motion, and everyone will face their most difficult choices yet. Written by Aaron Ehasz (co-creator of The Dragon Prince and head writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Melanie McGanney Ehasz, this second canon novel based on the Netflix original series finally gives fans the full story.

Author : John R. Fultz
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316206020

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Seven Princes by John R. Fultz Pdf

It is an Age of Legends. Under the watchful eye of the Giants, the kingdoms of Men rose to power. Now, the Giant-King has slain the last of the Serpents and ushered in an era of untold peace and prosperity. Where a fire-blackened desert once stood, golden cities flourish in verdant fields. It is an Age of Heroes. But the realms of Man face a new threat-- an ancient sorcerer slaughters the rightful King of Yaskatha before the unbelieving eyes of his son, young Prince D'zan. With the Giant-King lost to a mysterious doom, it seems that no one has the power to stop the coming storm. It is an Age of War. The fugitive Prince seeks allies across the realms of Men and Giants to liberate his father's stolen kingdom. Six foreign Princes are tied to his fate. Only one thing is certain: War is coming. SEVEN PRINCES. Some will seek glory. Some will seek vengeance. All will be legends.

Author : Hailey Turner
Publisher : Infernal War Saga
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798985746303

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The Prince's Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner Pdf

Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472112200

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A Brief History of the Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward Pdf

For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles - including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to fail, and in four short years she lost Normandy and finally her last stronghold in Guyenne. The protagonists of the Hundred Year War are among the most colourful in European history: for the English, Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V, later immortalized by Shakespeare; for the French, the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London, Charles V, who very nearly overcame England and the enigmatic Charles VII, who did at last drive the English out.