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Titel: Gimson’s Kings and Queens
Zustand: New
EAN: 9780224101196
ISBN: 9780224101196
Verlag: Square Peg
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
Release date: 20/08/2015
Höhe: 222mm
Länge: 144mm
Breite: 26mm
Gewicht: 364g
Autor: Andrew Gimson
Sprache: Englisch
Subtitle: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066
ISBN-10: 0224101196
Description:

NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED

A book for all lovers of history: the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.

Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs - from 1066 and William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth II and the present-day - to tell a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown and family recovery.

Written in Andrew Gimson's inimitable style, and illustrated by Martin Rowson, this is both a primer and a refresher for anyone who can't quite remember which were the good and bad Edwards or Henrys, or why so-and-so succeeded to the throne rather than his second cousin.

'The most entertaining and instructive book on the English monarchy you will ever read' Daily Telegraph

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