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During the fifteenth century, England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The civil wars consumed the whole nation in a series of battles that eventually saw the Tudor dynasty take power. The much admired historian Desmond Seward tells the story of this complex and dangerous period of history through the lives of five men and women who experienced the conflict first hand. In a gripping narrative the personal trials of the principal characters interweave with the major events and personalities of one of the most significant turning points in British history.

Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. She impressed the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck so much that he called her The only man in Paris.

Maak je klaar om te vogels kijken! Deze vogelgids behandelt meer dan 300 vogelsoorten en is compact genoeg om in je zak te passen. Ideaal voor zowel beginnende als ervaren vogelaars, dient het als een complete fotografische gids voor de vogels van Europa. Geauthenticeerd door de Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), bevat het profielen en duidelijke foto's van de meest voorkomende vogels, gedetailleerde illustraties van verenkleed en vluchtposturen, en een beknopte indeling voor snelle identificatie. Kaarten geven aan waar elke vogel in verschillende seizoenen en tijdens migratie te vinden is, terwijl links naar een website audio bieden voor 60 vogelgeluiden. Deze uitgebreide referentie helpt enthousiastelingen om soorten te identificeren, hun geluiden te herkennen en te begrijpen welke vogels inheems zijn of op bezoek komen. Het verkent ook hun gedrag, waaronder paring, verzorging en migratiepatronen. Prachtige foto's vangen de schoonheid van de vogels, en aantekeningen over het onderscheiden van verenkleedvariaties maken identificatie moeiteloos.

For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Seward's account traces the changes that led to France's final victory and brings to life all the intrigue of the last chivalric combats as they gave way modern warfare. schovat popis

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 War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; 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 at last drove the English out. Desmond Seward's critically-acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.

An examination of the impact of the Wars of the Roses on the lives of five very different men and women, during the years from 1455 to 1487, telling of how they lived, how the wars affected the lives of women as well as men and of how much was publicly accused of plotting against Richard III during his reign.

A travel book with religious interest which describes visits to European shrines where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared in recent history. They include Hriushiw in the Ukraine, Medjugorje in Herzegovina, Svata Hora in Bohemia, Czechochowa in Poland, Garabandal, Fatima and Walsingham.

Metternich - Der erste Europäer - Eine Biographie - bk1185; Benziger Verlag; Desmond Seward; Paperback; 1993

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 Templars, the Hospitallers (later Knights of Malta), the Teutonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were "noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross." The first properly disciplined Western troops since Roman times, they played a major role in defending the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, in the "Baltic Crusades" which created Prussia, in the long reconquest of Spain from the Moors, and in fighting the "Infidel" right up to Napoleonic times. This celebrated book tells the whole enthralling story, recreating such epics as the sieges of Rhodes and Malta and the destruction of the Templars by the Inquisition. Acclaimed on publication, it has now been revised and updated, with a concluding chapter to take events into the 1990s.