Princes At War

Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408845091
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princes at War written by Deborah Cadbury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781429995757
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchants' War written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Derek Prince
Publisher : Chosen Books
ISBN 13 : 080079317X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in Heaven written by Derek Prince and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)
ISBN 13 : 9781571130754
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princes of the Trenches written by Ann P. Linder and published by Camden House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610394038
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princes at War written by Deborah Cadbury and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466863943
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traders' War written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrew Morton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455527092
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 17 Carnations written by Andrew Morton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371235
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by C. V. Wedgwood and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.

Author : Laurent Murawiec
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742542785
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princes of Darkness written by Laurent Murawiec and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the kingdom of Saudi Arabia discusses Wahhabism, the corruption within the Saudi royal family, its ties to terrorism, and the threat it poses to the Western world.

Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408845245
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princes at War written by Deborah Cadbury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.