SUMMARY: Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot - the attempt to kill Hitler launched by the German Resistance Movement on 20 July 1944. But it is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of similar attacks. Killing Hitler is an account of the surprisingly numerous attempts
The perfect king: the life of Edward III, father of the English nation
โ Scribed by Mortimer, Ian
- Book ID
- 106903973
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 337 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780224073011
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY: He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, and usurped his father's throne. Yet under his rule, England experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the Middle Ages. In this first full biography of Edward III (1327-77), he emerges as the father of the English nation and the English people.
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SUMMARY: Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot - the attempt to kill Hitler launched by the German Resistance Movement on 20 July 1944. But it is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of similar attacks. Killing Hitler is an account of the surprisingly numerous attempts
SUMMARY: He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, and usurped his father's throne. Yet under his rule, England experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the Middle Ages. In this first full biography of Edward III (1327-77), he emerges as the father of the English nation and the English people.
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he taxed his people more than any other previous king, and he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years.Yet for centuries Edward III (1327-77) was celebrated as the most brilliant of all English monarchs. In this fir