Author: Stephanie Thornton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698176529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A novel from the acclaimed author of The Tiger Queens, for readers looking for “strong and determined female protagonists” (Historical Novel Society) and “a sprawling historical saga” (Renee Rosen)... We are the women who loved Alexander the Great. We were lovers and murderers, innocents and soldiers. And without us, Alexander would have been only a man. Instead he was a god. 330s, B.C.E., Greece: Alexander, a handsome young warrior of Macedon, begins his quest to conquer the ancient world. But he cannot ascend to power, and keep it, without the women who help to shape his destiny. His spirited younger half-sister, Thessalonike, yearns to join her brother and see the world. Instead, it is Alexander's boyhood companion who rides with him into war while Thessalonike remains behind. Far away, crafty princess Drypetis will not stand idly by as Alexander topples her father from Persia's throne. And after Alexander conquers her tiny kingdom, Roxana, the beautiful and cunning daughter of a minor noble, wins Alexander’s heart…and will commit any crime to secure her place at his side. Within a few short years, Alexander controls an empire more vast than the civilized world has ever known. But his victories are tarnished by losses on the battlefield and treachery among his inner circle. And long after Alexander is gone, the women who are his champions, wives, and enemies will fight to claim his legacy… CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED
Author: Thomas B. Costain
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Conquerors: The Pageant of England" by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Hilda Lewis
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752480405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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Matilda of Flanders, queen to William the Conqueror was beautiful, exquisitely small, clever, with a perfect courtesy trained in the rigid school of medieval manners. But within lay a root of darkness - inheritance, perhaps, of Viking ancestors. Twice, at least, in her lifetime the Viking streak broke through, in vengeance on a faithless lover, in fury wreaked on a rival of the marriage bed. The marriage, though fruitful of so many children, was on her side no match of love. But a passionate loyalty to her husband, an equally passionate ambition, together with her own sense of justice, gave her the will and the skill to dissemble her feelings and to make her the praise of Christendom. No Queen ever wielded so much power as she in the long years she ruled Normandy; before her no woman in England was ever crowned or was known as Queen.
Author: Sir Edward Robert Sullivan
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Edward Sullivan
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Sir Edward Sullivan
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Author: Niven Busch
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618869027
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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A war correspondent from the Pacific returns to San Francisco just as peace is about to be declared. Apprehensive but impatient to be reunited with his wife and son, he discovers that the city, too, is immersed in a kaleidoscope of contrasts.
