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  • Plantagenet Princes

    The Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the Scottish border, including half of France. Henry’s grandmother Empress Mathilda of Germany had taught him that ruling is like falconry: show the hawk the reward, but take it away at the last moment, to keep the bird eager to ... Read more

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  • Plagues and Pandemics

    Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Deadly Diseases of the Past, Present and Future

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    An overview of deadly diseases from throughout world history spanning from prehistoric civilizations to the twenty-first century.All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travelers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilizations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430–426 ... Read more

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  • Oral History

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction is a general introduction to oral history from the interview to the archive. Douglas A. Boyd examines the oral history interview, recording techniques and strategies, technologies for making oral history accessible, and the legal and ethical implications throughout the work of oral history. Boyd also pays special ... Read more

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  • Red October

    The Revolution that Changed the World

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    The October Revolution happened in November 1917. Later Soviet propaganda pretended for several decades that it was 'the will of the people', but in reality the brutal rebellion, which killed millions and raised the numerically tiny Bolshevik Party to power, was made possible by massive injections of German money laundered through a Swedish bank. The so-called 'workers' and peasants' revolution' ... Read more

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  • Plantagenet Princesses

    The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    A look at the royal women of twelfth-century England—from the empowered to the imprisoned—and their roles in the ruling dynasty.Eleanor of Aquitaine and her second husband, Henry II, are commonly considered medieval figures, but their era was really the violent transition from the Dark Ages, when countries' borders were defined with fire and sword. Henry grabbed the English throne thanks largely ... Read more

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  • April Queen

    Eleanor of Aquitaine

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. In this account of the turbulent adventures of the extraordinary mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John, author Douglas Boyd takes us into the heart and mind of the woman who changed the shape of Europe for 300 years by marrying Henry of Anjou to make him England's Henry II. Brought up in the ... Read more

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  • Lockerbie: The Truth

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years to disappear ... Read more

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  • De Gaulle

    The Man Who Defied Six US Presidents

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAfter watching a D-Day film, do you wonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country?General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up to American Big Business, while keeping in ... Read more

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  • Saving the Schindler's Daughter

    How Courageous Women Rescued an Orphaned Girl from French Concentration Camps

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    Lore Schindler was ten years old when her dentist father Harry was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His wife Grete bought his release by giving all their possessions to the Nazi state. Leaving Germany with just 10 Marks each, parents and daughter suffered humiliating strip searches at the border. This was the start of Lore's ordeal. In her first ... Read more

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  • Normandy's Nightmare War

    The French Experience of Nazi Occupation and Allied Bombing, 1940–45

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    The toll that both Nazi occupation and Allied liberation took on this northern French region during World War II, told through eyewitness accounts.Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second homes. Its coastline is also dotted with thousands of indestructible reinforced-concrete bunkers and gun ... Read more

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  • Oral History and Digital Humanities

    Voice, Access, and Engagement

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Oral History
    Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and applying them to the constantly changing electronic landscape of today. ... Read more

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  • Moscow Rules

    Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    Series series Espionage
    After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Stalin installed secret police services in the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic ... Read more

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