William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs) write by Jonathan Keates. This book was released on 2015-06-30. William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting France, initiating an immensely long period of warfare and colonial expansion. Jonathan Keates' wonderful book makes both monarchs vivid, the cold, shrewd 'Dutch' William and the shortlived Mary, whose life and death inspired Purcell to write some of his greatest music.
William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs)
William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs) write by Jonathan Keates. This book was released on 2015-04-30. William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting France, initiating an immensely long period of warfare and colonial expansion. Jonathan Keates' wonderful book makes both monarchs vivid, the cold, shrewd 'Dutch' William and the shortlived Mary, whose life and death inspired Purcell to write some of his greatest music.
William I (Penguin Monarchs)
William I (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William I (Penguin Monarchs) write by Marc Morris. This book was released on 2016-08-25. William I (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) write by Anne Curry. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: Agincourt Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political wilderness amid rumours that he planned to depose his father. Despite a complete change of character as king - founding monasteries, persecuting heretics, and enforcing the law to its extremes - little had gone right since. He was insecure in his kingdom, his reputation low. On the eve of his departure for France, he uncovered a plot by some of his closest associates to remove him from power. Agincourt was a battle that Henry should not have won - but he did, and the rest is history. Within five years, he was heir to the throne of France. In this vivid new interpretation, Anne Curry explores how Henry's hyperactive efforts to expunge his past failures, and his experience of crisis - which threatened to ruin everything he had struggled to achieve - defined his kingship, and how his astonishing success at Agincourt transformed his standing in the eyes of his contemporaries, and of all generations to come.
George V (Penguin Monarchs)
George V (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George V (Penguin Monarchs) write by David Cannadine. This book was released on 2014-12-04. George V (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
