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  • RICHARD III UNSPUN

    The Mysterious Affair at Stony Stratford and The Trouble with Hastings

    by Annette Carson ...
    In RICHARD III UNSPUN, Annette Carson investigates two incidents, shortly before Richard became king, that readers find especially perplexing.In the Stony Stratford affair, we look at what led Richard to make a series of arrests, as 12-year-old Edward V was conveyed from Ludlow to be crowned in London. We examine how these actions were provoked by the slights of those who had seized power over the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Domenico Mancini de occupatione regni Anglie

    by Annette Carson ...
    Annette Carson, a member of the team that found the grave of the ‘Lost King’, Richard III, has produced this new edition of Mancini’s important eyewitness report. Domenico Mancini was an Italian visitor to London in 1483 who witnessed Richard III’s rise from Protector to King, and wrote the only genuinely contemporary account.An early translation was published in the 1930s which, for modern ... Read more

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  • Richard III: The Maligned King

    by Annette Carson ...
    Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today. Yet history concentrates on the fictional hunchback as depicted by Shakespeare: the wicked uncle who stole the throne and killed his nephews in the Tower of London.Voices have protested during the intervening years, some of them eminent and scholarly, urging a more reasoned view to replace the ... Read more

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  • Richard Duke of Gloucester as Lord Protector and High Constable of England

    by Annette Carson ...
    Acclaimed author Annette Carson continues her Richard III studies by concentrating on his brief protectorate while he was still Duke of Gloucester. Until now traditionally misrepresented, his office as Lord Protector has been poorly understood owing to an over-reliance on foreign reporters ignorant of the precise significance of this very English institution. Of equal importance, and equally ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Camel Pilot Supreme

    Captain D V Armstrong DFC

    by Annette Carson ...
    "Annette Carson has done a wonderful job of chronicling Armstrong's life, flight training and ultimate recognition as the undisputed master of aerobatics." — Over the FrontInitially forbidden as foolhardy, stunt flying soon became a paramount method of survival in the life and death mêlées of dogfighting. But pilots still delighted in the joy and exuberance of aerobatting for its own sake, and ... Read more

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  • Richard III - A Small Guide to the Great Debate

    by Annette Carson ...
    Ever since the discovery of his lost grave in Leicester, the eyes of the world have been drawn to the twists and turns surrounding England’s King Richard III… Annette Carson, acclaimed author and expert on Richard’s reign (and one of the team who found him), has published A Small Guide to the Great Debate, a brief summary of the main arguments concerning his actions and reputation. Carson has ... Read more

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  • Richard III - The Young King To Be

    The Young King to be

    by Josephine Wilkinson ...
    Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate children. This new biography concentrates on the much neglected early part of Richards life - from his birth in 1452 as a cadet of the House of York to his marriage to the beautiful Anne Neville - and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • This Time: Richard III in the 21st Century--Book 1

    by Joan Szechtman ...
    What if instead of dying in battle, Richard III awakens in the 21st-century? THIS TIME examines the medieval monarch as he adapts to modern technology, medicine, and American culture while investigating his past and what Shakespeare had wrought on his character."This Time" named General Fiction Finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn'

    John Howard and the House of York

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Admiral and a very rich man (and his direct descendant is Duke of Norfolk today). How had Howard attained these elevations? Through his service to the House of York, and in particular to King Richard ... Read more

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  • The Kingmaker's Sisters

    Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses

    by David Baldwin ...
    Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who fought on opposing sides during this turbulent period.The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that ... Read more

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  • Richard III

    by David Baldwin ...
    Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richards character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended, and the arguments between his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII

    Mistress to Henry VIII

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    The earliest known and longest lasting mistress of Henry VIII, Bessie Blount was the kings first love. More beautiful that Anne Boleyn or any of Henrys other wives or concubines, Bessies beauty and other charms ensured that she turned heads, winning a place at court as one of Catherine of Aragons ladies. Within months she was partnering the king in dancing and she rose to be the woman with the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD