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Book Royal Betrayal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nina Bruhns
  • Publisher : Silhouette
  • Release : 2008-05-01
  • ISBN : 1426817436
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Royal Betrayal written by Nina Bruhns and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was the king's private physician. Until the explosion tore through the royal palace, leaving Zara Smith with disturbing visions and no memory. A risky place to be in a sovereignty rife with intrigue and danger in the form of one roguishly sexy doctor with an irresistible bedside manner.... Famed medical consultant Walker Shaw was thrilled when his new patient turned out to be the passionate blue blood with whom he'd shared an unforgettable night seven years before. Walker was determined to reignite Lady Zara's memories of their connection and prove to his once and future lover that dreams could come true....

Book Madness  Betrayal and the Lash

Download or read book Madness Betrayal and the Lash written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic story of Captain Vancouver, a great explorer whose triumphs were overshadowed by public humiliation.

Book The Betrayal of the Duchess

Download or read book The Betrayal of the Duchess written by Maurice Samuels and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power and revolution. The year was 1832, a cholera pandemic raged, and the French royal family was in exile, driven out by yet another revolution. From a drafty Scottish castle, the duchesse de Berry -- the mother of the eleven-year-old heir to the throne -- hatched a plot to restore the Bourbon dynasty. For months, she commanded a guerilla army and evaded capture by disguising herself as a man. But soon she was betrayed by her trusted advisor, Simon Deutz, the son of France's Chief Rabbi. The betrayal became a cause célèbre for Bourbon loyalists and ignited a firestorm of hate against France's Jews. By blaming an entire people for the actions of a single man, the duchess's supporters set the terms for the century of antisemitism that followed. Brimming with intrigue and lush detail, The Betrayal of the Duchess is the riveting story of a high-spirited woman, the charming but volatile young man who double-crossed her, and the birth of one of the modern world's most deadly forms of hatred. !--EndFragment--

Book Nostradamus For Dummies

Download or read book Nostradamus For Dummies written by Scarlett Ross and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostradamus made simple-a surefire prophecy of success! Michel Notredame, or Nostradamus (1503-1566), was a French physician, astrologer, and prophet whose books of visionary four-line verses have intrigued and beguiled readers for hundreds of years. Now, with this fun and easy guide, everyone can finally get a handle on Nostradamus and his "Centuries" of prophecies, which many people believe to have predicted the French Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11, among other events. The book covers Nostradamus's life and beliefs, his use of cryptic language and anagrams, interpretations of his work that link it to specific historical incidents, and critics who are skeptical of his prophecies. It also explores the implications of his work on the past, present, and future, and much more!

Book To Free the Romanovs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Coryne Hall
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2018-06-15
  • ISBN : 1445681986
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book To Free the Romanovs written by Coryne Hall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murders but also the exciting escapes of the wider Romanov family - the Tsar’s mother, siblings and cousins. Did George V let his cousin the Tsar and his family die?

Book 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny  Last War of Independence

Download or read book 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny Last War of Independence written by Pramod Kapoor and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, 20,000 non-commissioned sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied. They were inspired by the heroism of the Azad Hind Fauj. But their anger was sparked by terrible service conditions, racism, and broken recruitment promises. In less than 48 hours, 20,000 men took over 78 ships and 21 shore establishments and replaced British flags with the entwined flags of the Congress, the Muslim League, and the communists. The British panicked and announced a Cabinet Mission to discuss modalities of transfer of power. By this time, Indian troops had refused to fire on the ratings, and the mutiny sparked revolts in other branches of the armed forces. The young ratings presented a charter of demands, even as they fought pitched battles against British troops. People thronged the streets in support, and hartals were followed by street fights between civilians and British soldiers resulting in over 400 deaths and 1,500 injured. To quell the rebellion, British commanded their powerful warship HMS Glasgow to sail rapidly from Trincomalee and ordered low sorties by the Royal Air Force fighter planes. In retaliation, the ratings trained the guns mounted on the captured ships towards the shore, threatening to blow Gateway of India, Yacht Club, and the dockyards. As violence escalated, telegrams flew between the Viceroy’s office and the British Cabinet. The British realized they could no longer hold India by force. While the communists continued to support the rebellious ratings, the Congress and the Muslim League persuaded them to surrender, promising they would not be victimized. Shamefully, years later, the governments of India and Pakistan refused to honour those promises after Independence. The mutiny caused public disagreements between Gandhiji and Aruna Asaf Ali, and between Sardar Patel and Nehru. Historians say it accelerated the transfer of power. But this seminal event, which inspired songs, art and theatre has been edited out of the popular narratives of the Freedom Movement.

Book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society  Volume 9

Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 9 written by Royal Historical Society and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 9 of the RHS Transactions contains essays based around the theme 'oral history, memory and written tradition'.

Book The Message of the Kingdom of God

Download or read book The Message of the Kingdom of God written by T. Desmond Alexander and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across 22 chapters, T. Desmond Alexander expounds the theme of the kingdom of God from selected Old and New Testament texts, showing its relevance for today. God made us to rule with him as his representatives, to establish his kingdom on earth. But Adam and Eve's rebellion alienated humanity from God's kingdom, instead making them slaves to the kingdom of darkness. As the promised ruler, Jesus Christ comes as the perfect king to redeem enslaved humanity. This servant king brings God's kingdom on earth through self-sacrificial love. In hope, we now await the return of the king and the coming of the eternal kingdom. The fully integrated study guide, suitable for both personal and group study, helps you to see how the Bible's unified teaching on this vital theme can impact your life today. The Bible Speaks Today series covers every book of the Old and New Testaments, as well as Bible themes that run through the whole of Scripture.

Book Radical Shakespeare

Download or read book Radical Shakespeare written by Chris Fitter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, have together obscured the consistent subversiveness of his work. Traditionally, Shakespeare’s political attitudes have been construed either as primarily conservative, or as essays in richly imaginative ambiguation, irreducible to settled viewpoints. Fitter contends that government censorship forced superficial acquiescence upon Shakespeare in establishment ideologies — monarchic, aristocratic and patriarchal — that were enunciated through rhetorical set pieces, but that Shakespeare the dramatist learned from Shakespeare the actor a variety of creative methods for sabotaging those perspectives in performance in the public theatres. Using historical contextualizations and recuperation of original performance values, the book argues that Shakespeare emerged as a radical writer not in middle age with King Lear and Coriolanus — plays whose radicalism is becoming widely recognized — but from his outset, with Henry VI and Taming of the Shrew. Recognizing Shakespeare’s allusiveness to 1590s controversies and dissident thought, and recovering the subtextual politics of Shakespeare’s distinctive stagecraft reveals populist, at times even radical meaning and a substantially new, and astonishingly interventionist, Shakespeare.

Book Joseph Mazzini

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emilie Ashurst Venturi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Joseph Mazzini written by Emilie Ashurst Venturi and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quotable English couplets

Download or read book Quotable English couplets written by Mulki Radhakrishna Shetty and published by Pentagon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joseph Mazzini  A Memoir by E  A  V enturi   With Two Essays by Mazzini Translated from the Italian by E  A  V    Thoughts on Democracy and the Duties of Man  Edited by P  A  Taylor

Download or read book Joseph Mazzini A Memoir by E A V enturi With Two Essays by Mazzini Translated from the Italian by E A V Thoughts on Democracy and the Duties of Man Edited by P A Taylor written by Emilie Ashurst Venturi and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Money

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Desan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0198709579
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Making Money written by Christine Desan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist history of the development of the modern monetary system, Desan argues that money effectively creates economic activity rather than emerging from it. Her account demonstrates that money's design has been a project central to governance and formative to markets.

Book Iconoclasm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacy Boldrick
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351563408
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Iconoclasm written by Stacy Boldrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'iconoclasm' is most often used in relation to sculpture, because it is sculptures that most visibly bear witness to physical damage. But damage can also be invisible, and the actions of iconoclasm can be subtle and varying. Iconoclastic acts include the addition of objects and accessories, as well as their removal, or may be represented in text or imagery that never materially affects the original object. This book brings together a collection of essays each of which fundamentally questions the meaning of the word iconoclasm as a descriptive category. Each contribution examines the impact of iconoclastic acts on different representational forms, and assesses the development and historical implications of these various destructive and transformative behaviours.

Book Prinny and His Pals

Download or read book Prinny and His Pals written by Tom Ambrose and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first biography of George IV in 1831 to the last in 2001, Mad King George’s son has commonly been held up to ridicule as a weak, selfish, and incompetent spendthrift, barely tolerated by his ministers, loathed by most of his family, and dependent on the emotional support of grasping mistresses. However, acclaimed historian Tom Ambrose—author of Godfather of the Revolution: The Life of Phillipe Egalité, Duc D’Orléans—has uncovered new details on "Prinny" that suggests that, for all his faults, George IV just may have been the most humane and amusing of all British monarchs, notwithstanding his love of the high life. Central to the story is the vast array of friends that populate a remarkable reign as Prince Regent and King. If Prinny, as they knew him, was so grotesquely foolish, how did he amass such a fascinating (and loyal) group of friends? Could any other British ruler count among his friends the country’s most brilliant playwright (Richard Sheridan), or the wiliest statesman (Charles Fox), or the greatest political philosopher (Edmund Burke), not to mention perhaps the biggest loveable rogues’ gallery London ever saw? The truth was that Prinny’s occasional buffoonery and imposing girth made him the perfect target for political satirists and cartoonists—at their zenith during his reign—and his high qualities have been consistently overlooked. This warm, funny, and affectionate portrait displays George at his very best: delighting some of the finest minds of his generation, easily winning over his subjects and his family as well as treating his lovers with care and concern—and roistering with all his pals.

Book A Magical Court   Magic and Mischief Book 4

Download or read book A Magical Court Magic and Mischief Book 4 written by N. R. Hairston and published by Fire Ink Media. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five stories of supernatural Vengeance. Including five kick-ass women. With five unique powers. On five different worlds. A Royal Slaughter Rye is called to the royal court of Yezn. What should have been a routine investigation ends up being a fight for her life. A Royal Betrayal They call her the Destroyer. She tries to keep that part of herself at bay. But when the royal court of Julo plots against her, she releases her fury on them. How will she answer for this slaughter? A Royal Rebellion Leah inadvertently offends the crown princess of Gango. The crown princess calls for her head. Will Leah and her crew be able to fight their way out of this one? A Royal Deception Kerry and her team are tasked with finding the kidnapped Crown Princess of Halgo. They discover a sinister plot that has them fighting to survive. A Royal Succubus Kia’s grandmother is the empress of all magical creatures. Kia's team is sent to investigate when her grandmother and all the kings and queens under her go missing. What Kia finds is a deadly plot that has them all fighting to stay alive.