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  • Plantagenet Princesses

    The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Plantagenet Princes

    The Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Normandy's Nightmare War

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Plagues and Pandemics

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • J'aide mon enfant à choisir son instrument

    Series series Eyrolles Pratique
    Vous souhaitez que votre enfant découvre la musique et vous hésitez encore sur le choix d'un instrument. Parce que ce choix est déterminant, ce guide vous propose une méthode pas à pas pour définir l'instrument qui lui conviendrait le mieux selon ses goûts et ses aptitudes. Rigoureuse et pratique, elle a déjà fait ses preuves dans le monde entier. Vous favoriserez ainsi l'épanouissement et la ... Leer más

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  • April Queen

    Eleanor of Aquitaine

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Lionheart

    The True Story of England's Crusader King

    de Douglas Boyd ...
    When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard detested England and the English, was deeply troubled by his own sexuality and was noted for greed, not generosity, and for murder rather than mercy. In youth Richard ... Leer más

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  • Lockerbie: The Truth

    The Truth

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Saving the Schindler's Daughter

    How Courageous Women Rescued an Orphaned Girl from French Concentration Camps

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Moscow Rules

    Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Blood in the Snow, Blood on the Grass

    Treachery, Torture, Murder and Massacre - France 1944

    de Douglas Boyd ...
    Nearing D-Day, Allied intelligence used thousands of young men hiding in France's forests and hill country to avoid compulsory labour service in Germany as bait to draw German forces away from the Normandy beaches. There are two principles of guerilla warfare: never to concentrate your forces or rish a pitched battle. But with RAF airdrops of pistols and Sten guns came British, American and French ... Leer más

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  • Voices from the Dark Years

    The Truth About Occupied France 1940-1945

    de Douglas Boyd ...
    Series series Voices From History
    The key to getting on with our closest Continental neighbours is to know the truth about what they endured during the German Occupation in the Second World War. Forget the films and television dramas about the Resistance; here is the true picture of the Occupation. This often chilling history, based on previously unpublished accounts by men and women who lived through it, tells how they went cold ... Leer más

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