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  • The Last Plantagenets

    Enriched edition. Intrigue, Scandal, and Battle: The Final Days of the Plantagenet Dynasty

    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Spencer Delaney ...
    In "The Last Plantagenets," Thomas Bertram Costain presents a meticulous chronicle of the final years of the Plantagenet dynasty, weaving together history and narrative with a vivid prose style that brings the medieval era to life. Costain delves into the turbulent events that characterized the decline of one of England's most powerful families, exploring the rich tapestry of personal ambition, ... Read more

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  • The Magnificent Century

    The Plantagenets Series

    by Thomas Bertram Costain ...
    In "The Magnificent Century," Thomas Bertram Costain presents a sweeping historical narrative that delves into the opulence and turbulence of the 16th century, particularly focusing on the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent in the Ottoman Empire. Costain's prose is richly detailed and evocative, capturing the intricacies of court life, the complexity of political intrigue, and the vibrant cultural ... Read more

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  • The Last Plantagenets

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    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Cameron Price ...
    In "The Last Plantagenets," Thomas Bertram Costain crafts an evocative historical narrative that delves into the final years of the Plantagenet dynasty, capturing the drama and intrigue that characterized this tumultuous period in English history. Through a blend of meticulous research and captivating storytelling, Costain explores the lives of key figures—ranging from Richard II to Henry VII ... Read more

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  • The Magnificent Century

    The Plantagenets Series

    by Thomas Bertram Costain ...
    In "The Magnificent Century," Thomas Bertram Costain presents a captivating narrative that chronicles the opulent and tumultuous reign of the 16th-century Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent. This historical account is characterized by Costain's fluid prose and vivid imagery, skillfully blending meticulous research with storytelling flair to transport readers to a time of grandeur and ... Read more

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  • The Last Plantagenets (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Late Medieval England, Dynastic Rivalry, and the Wars of the Roses from Richard II to Bosworth Field

    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Faye Roswell ...
    The Last Plantagenets completes Thomas B. Costain's vivid historical sequence on the Plantagenet dynasty, carrying the reader through the turbulent fifteenth century from the reign of Richard II to the catastrophe of Bosworth Field. Blending narrative history with novelistic pacing, Costain reconstructs court intrigue, dynastic rivalry, civil war, and the fraught personalities of Lancaster and ... Read more

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  • The Three Edwards (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Plantagenets Series

    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Faye Roswell ...
    The Three Edwards surveys one of the most dramatic sequences in medieval English history: the reigns of Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III. Costain moves from conquest and legal consolidation to courtly collapse and martial renewal, treating Scotland, Wales, Parliament, chivalry, dynastic conflict, and the opening phases of the Hundred Years' War with the pace of narrative history. His style is ... Read more

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  • The Conquering Family (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Conquering Family

    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Faye Roswell ...
    The Conquering Family opens Thomas B. Costain's vivid chronicle of the Plantagenets, tracing the explosive reign of Henry II, the formidable presence of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the ambitions and rebellions of their sons, including Richard the Lionheart and King John. Written as popular narrative history rather than academic monograph, the book combines political drama, character portraiture, and ... Read more

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  • The Magnificent Century (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Plantagenets Series

    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Faye Roswell ...
    The Magnificent Century presents thirteenth-century England as an age of political experiment, dynastic tension, and cultural brilliance. Costain writes narrative history with the pacing of fiction, moving from the troubled reign of Henry III to the rise of Simon de Montfort and the emergence of parliamentary ideas. Set within the broader medieval world of crusade, cathedral-building, scholastic ... Read more

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  • Alarms and Excursions in Arabia (1931)

    by Bertram Thomas ...
    Bertram Sidney Thomas was an English civil servant who is the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). He was also a scientist who practiced craniofacial anthropometry. He was born in Pill near Bristol and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After working for the Civil Service in the General Post Office, he served in Belgium during World War I before being posted ... Read more

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  • The Three Edwards (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. England under Edwards I-III: Wales subdued, Scotland resisted, Parliament rising, and war from Crecy to the Black Death

    by Thomas Bertram Costain, Carter Reynolds, Carter Reynolds ...
    The Three Edwards traces England under Edward I, II, and III, charting the conquest of Wales, wars with Scotland, baronial tensions, statutes shaping common law, the deposition of Edward II, Isabella and Mortimer, the opening campaigns of the Hundred Years' War, including Crecy, and the Black Death's shadow. Costain blends narrative sweep with scene-setting from chronicles (notably Froissart) and ... Read more

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  • The Conquering Family

    by Thomas B. Costain ...
    Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination ... Read more

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  • The Three Edwards

    by Thomas B. Costain ...
    THE THREE EDWARDS covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave his country Edward III, who ruled gloriously, if violently."A thrilling narrative... history told with all the interest found only in a great novel." (Salt Lake City Tribune) ... Read more

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