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Tales from the Tower of London


Free Download Tales from the Tower of London By Daniel Diehl, Mark P. Donnelly
2004 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0750934964 | PDF | 2 MB
The brooding grey walls of the Tower of London circumscribe one of the most recognisable buildings on the planet. Over its thousand-year history the Tower stood as a symbol of the English monarchy and served as both a palace and a prison. It is a place where court intrigues, clandestine liaisons, unimaginable tortures and grisly executions took place with frightening regularity. Tales from the Tower is the factual history of the great building itself told through the true stories of the people, royal and common, good and bad, heroes and villains, who lived and died there. Including characters such as William the Conqueror, the Princes in the Tower, Jane Grey, Guy Fawkes, Colonel Blood and Rudolf Hess, the broad range of stories encompassed in Tales from the Tower present a microcosm of all human experience, from love and death to greed and betrayal, all played out against romantic period settings ranging from medieval knights in shining armour to the darkest days of World War II.. Anyone who loves history and adventure will find Tales from the Tower a classic page turner.

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The Princes in the Tower Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case (US Edition)


Free Download The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case (US Edition) by Philippa Langley
English | November 19, 2023 | ISBN: 163936627X | True EPUB | 496 pages | 29.2 MB
In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from the Tower of London. History has judged they were murdered on the orders of Richard III. This new book reveals the truth behind the greatest unsolved mystery in English history.

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Nefertiti in the Flak Tower


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English | 2012 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1447207009 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Clive James’s renown as an internationally celebrated poet continues to expand, and there is no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower, a collection "steeped in the lessons of Philip Larkin and W.B. Yeats" (London Times). Here, his polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader gratefully sinks, knowing they are in the presence of a master. The most obvious token of that mastery is the book’s breathtaking range of theme: there are moving elegies, a meditation on the later Yeats, a Hollywood Iliad, and odes to rare orchids, wartime typewriters, and sharks-as well as a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany.

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The Princes in the Tower Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case


Free Download The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley
English | November 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 1803995416 | 488 pages | True EPUB | 16.84 MB
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of over 366 million.

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The Princes in the Tower Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CKM1JWCB | 2023 | 16 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 479 MB
Author: Philippa Langley
Narrator: Philippa Langley

Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of over 366 million. Now, Langley reveals the findings of a remarkable new research initiative: ‘The Missing Princes Project’. In the summer of 1483, Edward V (aged 12) and his brother Richard Duke of York (aged 9), disappeared from the Tower of London. For over 500 years, history has judged that they were murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III.

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