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Edward I by Michael Prestwich
$64.95 AUD
Category: British | Series: The English Monarchs Series
Professor Prestwich's study of Edward I, first published in 1988, is a full-length account of one of the leading monarchs of the Middle Ages. A king who pioneered legal and parliamentary change, conquered Wales and came close to conquering Scotland, Edward also governed Gascony in south-west France and ...Show more
George III: America's Last King by Jeremy Black
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: English Monarchs Ser.
Secondhand. The first full new study of George III in thirty years The sixty-year reign of George III (1760-1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years' War with France, the American War of Independence, the French Revo ...Show more
Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson
$54.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The English Monarchs Series
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful plac ...Show more
Henry V by Christopher Allmand
$45.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French, and the great victory at Agincourt, are part of English historical tradition. Yet, though indeed a soldier of exceptional skill, Henry V's reputation needs to be see ...Show more
King John by W. L. Warren; D. A. Carpenter (Foreword by)
$74.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: English Monarchs Ser.
King John is a study not only of a king and his political misfortunes, but also of a period-a period of profound changes in society at large, and hence one of unprecedented stressed. John's personality, so distorted by chronicles such as Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris, is investigated through his a ...Show more
Richard: No. III by Charles Ross
$37.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series
Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the context of his violent age and explores the criti ...Show more
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