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Wilson, Derek A.

Archaeology

Collins

Hardback book with dust jacket titled THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED: Drake's Great Voyage, 1577-1580 by Derek Wilson. (LL-Base2-1-middle)

The World Encompassed: Drake's Great Voyage 1577-1580

History

Europe

Harper&Row

Chronicles the rise of the Rothschild family from poverty in a German ghetto at a time of pervasive anti-Semitism to become the second wealthiest business network in the world

Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Few Chroniclers have had a good word to say for Robert Dudley. Both his father and grandfather were executed for treason, he himself was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a young man, and his first wife died in suspicious circumstances. Yet he was the only man that "good Queen Bess" ever loved.

Sweet Robin: A biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1533-1588

H.Hamilton

The Bear's Whelp : The Autobiography of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire

The bear's whelp: The autobiography of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Tower, 1078-1978

"The Astors" is a catalogue of achievement, influence and scandal among the world's elite, assembled from archive sources in two continents. The Astors originated in Germany. They became millionaires in America. They exercised political and social leadership there and in Britain. The Astor family have left their mark on history as well as on the landscapes in which they lived and they personify two centuries of changing Anglo-American relations. Astors were seldom strangers to controversy: John Jacob I, a poor immigrant, became the richest man in America and adviser to presidents; the introverted eccentric, William Waldorf, created the splendours of Cliveden and Hever Castle; Nancy became the first female MP; Bill, 3rd Viscount, was involved in the Profumo scandal, the truth of which is told here, thanks to access to hitherto secret papers.

The Astors: 1763-1992: Landscape with Millionaires

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The Palace of St. James', 1649. Night. Armed soldiers guard a coffin resting in a dimly lit room. In it lies the shattered corpse of Charles I, King of England, head crudely reattached to torso. Past the guttering torches glides a human shadow, wide-brimmed hat pulled down over the eyes, a cloak drawn around the lower part of the face. The visitor--Oliver Cromwell, soon to be named Lord Protector of England--gazes for several moments at the dead king's features. "Cruel necessity," he mutters, then retires to the darkness as stealthily as he came.
 This scene--with all the trappings of Victorian melodrama--is possibly apocryphal. Nevertheless, any chronicle of seventeenth- century England is, in a very real sense, an account of the conflict between Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell and the beliefs that impelled them. Almost exact contemporaries (nineteen months separated their birth dates), King and subject were both possessed of a deep sense of divine mission; both were profoundly religious and immovably stubborn. Their ideals sent them on a course that would culminate in one of the most dramatic events in British history: the execution of a reigning sovereign on Tuesday, January 30, 1649.
 In The King and the Gentleman, historian Derek Wilson details the parallel lives of a foreign-born aesthete-prince and a down-to-earth country squire. The passions the aroused and the conflict they unleashed would forever change the face of a nation.

The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1649

St Martins Pr

Her Majesty's captain: Being the manuscript of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick, and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire, from his own hand : a novel

Little,Brown

A Tudor tapestry: men, women and society in Reformation England

Heinemann

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