The Very Bloody History Of Britain 2

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448121078
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Bloody History Of Britain, 2 written by John Farman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Farman makes history hysterical in this must-have companion volume to the best-selling THE VERY BLOODY HISTORY OF BRITAIN: THE FIRST BIT! It's the wittiest and wackiest chronicle of modern British history you'll find - ranging from post-war rationing, through the glut of the Thatcher yuppy years to the new millenium.

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780099219422
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780370319339
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958111
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Britain written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain's terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo's secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood ...

Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759511616
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Tales from English History written by Robert Lacey and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake's dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England's history.

Author : John D Wright
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178274570X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody History of London written by John D Wright and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immensely entertaining and illustrated with 180 colour and black-&-white artworks, Bloody History of London is an engaging and highly informative exploration of almost 2,000 years of London history, from the highlights of London lowlife to the depravities of London’s high life.

Author : John Farman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's two best-selling histories of Britain are brought together in one volume. Through a combination of fact and humour the reader is able to find out about British history from the dawn of time to the present day.

Author : Carolyn D. Williams
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874130794
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boudica and Her Stories written by Carolyn D. Williams and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book to concentrate exclusively on texts about Boudica and to cover the full chronological range from the first surviving historical account by Tacitus in AD 98 to the triumphant conclusion of Manda Scott's series of novels in 2006. All our knowledge of the ancient British queen Boudica, and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans, is derived from a few accounts in ancient Greek and Latin. Yet they have inspired a flood of history, fictional narrative, drama, and poetry, and there is no indication that the process has ended. This study illuminates and celebrates the rich variety generated by the creative tensions between writers' knowledge and their individual tastes, beliefs, and political or artistic aims and considers whether Boudica's textual metamorphoses are without limits or variations on a distinctive theme bounded by a flexible yet enduring narrative pattern." --Book Jacket.

Author : Ken Wharton
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752475983
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Belfast written by Ken Wharton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets. Wharton's work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer, but no less violent streets of the 'Murph, Turf Lodge and Andersonstown. The author has interviewed UDR soldier Glen Espie who survived being ambushed and shot by the IRA not once, but twice, and Army Dog Handler Dougie Durrant, who, through the incredible ability of his dog, tracked an IRA gunman fresh from the murder of a soldier to where he was sitting in a hot bath in the Turf Lodge, desperately trying to wash away the forensic evidence. Wharton's reputation for honesty established from previous works has encouraged more former soldiers of Britain's forgotten army to come forward to tell their stories of Bloody Belfast. The book continues the story of his previous work, presenting the truth about a conflict which has sometimes been deliberately underplayed by the Establishment.

Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the British Army: 1811-1812. Maps and plans. 2 v written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: