Godwine Kingmaker

Author : Mercedes Rochelle
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782798005
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Godwine Kingmaker written by Mercedes Rochelle and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Godwineson, the Last Anglo-Saxon King, owed everything to his father. Who was this Godwine, first Earl of Wessex and known as the Kingmaker? Was he an unscrupulous schemer, using King and Witan to gain power? Or was he the greatest of all Saxon Earls, protector of the English against the hated Normans? The answer depends on who you ask. He was befriended by the Danes, raised up by Canute the Great, given an Earldom and a wife from the highest Danish ranks. He sired nine children, among them four Earls, a Queen and a future King. Along with his power came a struggle to keep his enemies at bay, and Godwine's best efforts were brought down by the misdeeds of his eldest son Swegn. Although he became father-in-law to a reluctant Edward the Confessor, his fortunes dwindled as the Normans gained prominence at court. Driven into exile, Godwine regathered his forces and came back even stronger, only to discover that his second son Harold was destined to surpass him in renown and glory.

Author : Emma Mason
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852853891
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Godwine written by Emma Mason and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings in October of that year. For much of the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was married to Harold’s sister Eadgyth, the Godwine family, led by Earl Godwine, had dominated English politics. In The Rise and Fall of the House of Godwine, Emma Mason tells the turbulent story of a remarkable family which, until Harold’s unexpected defeat, looked far more likely than the dukes of Normandy to provide the long-term rulers of England. But for the Norman Conquest, an Anglo-Saxon England ruled by the Godwine dynasty would have developed very differently from that dominated by the Normans.

Author : Thomas Crockett
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178904250X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Matter Monologues written by Thomas Crockett and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England, 1527, King Henry seeks a divorce from his first wife, Katherine, who can't give him the male heir he desires. He sets his eyes on the younger, more daring Anne Boleyn, triggering a complex, triangular exchange of personal narratives from the protagonists, who remain entwined for the ensuing nine years. Each struggle in their pursuits of power, control and survival, ending in 1536 with Katherine's death and Anne's final miscarriage, sealing her fate and giving King Henry cause to seek yet another wife...

Author : Angela Locke
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803414871
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tamarisk written by Angela Locke and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of love and tragedy set against the background of impossible odds, the French Resistance and the wartime landscape of France.

Author : Stephen Edward Reid
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412704
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tender Things Shall Die written by Stephen Edward Reid and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outskirts of a small religious village near London in 1865, Arman Shaw lives alone. He hasn't seen another soul in 441 days. Not since the death of his wife. He longs to return to the congregation, but every day spent in isolation makes it harder to go back. Then Violet Walker turns up on his doorstep to tell him that her husband, an old friend of Arman's, has been murdered. The local congregation wants to execute the man responsible, but Violet wants the murderer to have a trial, and she wants Arman to defend him...

Author : Philip Duke
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785359118
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village written by Philip Duke and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together...Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance…A naive English soldier unwillingly finds the warrior in himself…And a fanatical German paratrooper is forced to question everything he thought he believed in. The lives of four ordinary people are irrevocably entwined and their destinies changed forever as each of them confronts the horrors of war and its echoes down the decades.

Author : Ron Semple
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846949904
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Morning Shadow written by Ron Semple and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and chaos are no match for an American immigrant bent on keeping a promise... Sequel to the award-winning Black Tom: Terror on the Hudson, Her Morning Shadow tells of a young Jewish Ukrainian immigrant, caught up in the aftershock of World War One. Private 'Abie' Ashansky is trying to build a new life in his adopted home in Jersey City, while searching for his missing fiancée. Spanning continents and relationships, this extraordinary account of one man's journey reveals a community where family is defined not only by blood but by the values and roots on which it is built. 'Buckle down for a wild saga in history that starts in the Great War and charges through the three-way battle for the Crimea and the Ukraine to reach its beacon, the torch of Liberty. A superb alloy of genuine history and vivid imagination.' Leslie Wilbur, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California.

Author : Joan E. Histon
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789042232
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Senator's Darkest Days written by Joan E. Histon and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40AD and despite the threat of bloodshed, Senator Vivius Marcianus travels to Jerusalem to investigate the delay in erecting the Emperor's statue in the temple. Failure is not an option. When Vivius is wounded and imprisoned, it is left to Dorio to rescue his heavily pregnant sister and her children and set about proving Vivius's innocence. The thrilling sequel to The Senator's Assignment

Author : Liz MacRae Shaw
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782797874
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Safe Anchorage written by Liz MacRae Shaw and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Masters, a nineteenth century naval officer, is a round peg in a square hole. A tantalising glimpse of a stranger leads him to jump ship on a quest to find her. His adventures, interwoven with the life of a young Robert Louis Stevenson, take Tom from the Isle of Skye to Canada. There he encounters others who have been jettisoned by society, including Silent Owl, a Native American who becomes his soulmate. But, danger and exposure threaten Tom's every move as he is forced to continue on his journey...

Author : Joe Kilgore
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785354353
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Farmhouse in the Rain written by Joe Kilgore and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Farmhouse in the Rain is a novel of war and peace, crime and punishment, love and loss, and eventually hope. It's a saga of three American soldiers and the women they love - before, during, and after World War II. During the war, the three are given shelter by a French woman. The next morning she is found dead and the trio realize they were the only ones in the house. While the three survive the war, the questions remain: Who will survive the peace? Who will unite with the love they left behind? And who will be unmasked as the murderer on that fateful night at A Farmhouse in the Rain.