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#1 The Tudor dynasty maintained friendly relations with Spain, but when Henry VIII divorced his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, and in defiance of the pope established the Church of England with himself as its head, relations between England and Spain became strained.
#2 The relationship between England and Spain grew cooler during the half-hearted proposals that...
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Book Preview: #1 On August 6, 1888, London was a carnival of wondrous things to do for as little as pennies if one could spare a few. The bells of Windsor's Parish Church and St. George's Chapel rang all day. Ships were dressed in flags.
#2 Walter Sickert was a master of greasepaint and wardrobe. He was able to completely transform himself into someone else, and he was known for his...
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#1 The philosopher Alan Tommy Lascelles believed that the primary reason for the abdication was finance. He wrote that Money, and the things that money buys, were the principal desiderata in Mrs Simpson's philosophy, if not in his.
#2 Wallis was the woman who captured the heart of a prince, and her relationship with Edward was the subject of many articles and biographies....
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#1 The young man was Peter Heywood, who had been on the Bounty when it mutinied and left Tahiti in 1789. He had been only a few weeks shy of seventeen when the mutiny happened, and he had turned back from the beach to set about the business of building a new life.
#2 The news of the Bounty mutiny reached England almost exactly a year before. It was sent to British...
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#1 We arrived in Denmark, and went to find our rental car. We drove on the wrong side of the road to the Legoland Hotel.
#2 The country we've moved to is snowy, and the roads are icy. We go back inside and put on every item of clothing we have, then emerge an hour later, looking like Michelin Men but better prepared to start the day.
#3 The Danish government requires...
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#1 The American ambassador to Britain, John Gilbert Winant, was taken to Windsor Castle by the king, who made clear that traditional court niceties were to be set aside during the war.
#2 Winant was the American ambassador to Britain, and his task was to explain to a country that was being bombed why a country 3,000 miles away wanted to help but would not fight. He...
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#1 The battle-hardened German Heer and Waffen-SS stood poised to inflict a bloody reverse on the Allied landings in Northern France in 1944. The Allied landings in the Mediterranean had convinced the Germans that they could contain and defeat an Allied amphibious assault on French soil.
#2 The German commanders were extremely annoyed with Rundstedt, as he had the final...
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#1 In 1096, the Turkish sultan Kilij Arslan learned that an enormous Franj army was en route to Constantinople. He feared the worst, and immediately began planning how to defend his city.
#2 The Byzantines had always recruited Western knights to help them fight the Muslims, and in 1096, they were joined by thousands of Franj, who were Christian refugees from the East....
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#1 The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 23 August 1939 had been well received at the time of its signing. It was seen as the end of German-Soviet enmity. However, the exchange of goods between the two countries had benefited Germany significantly since the autumn of 1939.
#2 The German and Soviet governments had become close friends following the invasion of Poland in September...
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#1 There's no map, and the directions are a little vague. This book is intended as a guide to visiting Medieval England. It answers many questions you may have, such as where you can get a decent meal, how to contact a friend or relative, and how to get money.
#2 Medieval England was an agricultural land, and the main reason William the Conqueror wanted to become its...
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#1 The evening of 20 January 1944 was as unpleasant as only the Lincolnshire winter could provide. Flight Lieutenant Tom O'Shaughnessy's crew was briefed to carry out a low-level night simulation bombing exercise at the southern area of the Wash, whilst other Squadron aircraft carried out similar details farther north.
#2 Arthur was listening attentively to his set....
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#1 Germany is a country that has overcome a long history of horror, war, and dictatorship. It has developed a maturity that few others can match.
#2 The British government's response to the coronavirus was a case study in how not to deal with a crisis. The country had the highest death toll in Europe, and the prime minister was considered one of the worst leaders in...
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#1 In 1594, William Barents prepared to sail off the edge of the known world. He would leave in the spring for distant Nova Zembla, whose shores stretched hundreds of miles above the Russian mainland. He intended to follow its coastline north as far as he could go.
#2 While Barents had gotten an education, he was still very much a merchant sailor who was hired to explore...
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#1 The Three-Age System of Stone, Bronze, and Iron was developed by a museum curator in 1836. It is based on the relative technological difficulty of fashioning stone, bronze, and iron. It was revolutionary stuff a full eighteen years before the appearance of On the Origin of Species.
#2 The first three chapters of this book will be about the earliest archaeological...
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Book Preview: #1 Henry I, the king of England, was also the duke of Normandy. He had established strong rule over his lands by overcoming dangerously powerful enemies among the Anglo-Norman nobility. He was focused and uncompromising, and his ruthlessness and speed enabled him to seize the royal treasury before any rival even knew the crown was in play.
#2 The France of the early...
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#1 The Castle that was to play such a large role in Jack Lee's life was fourteen miles to the southwest of where he was. Schloss Itter, as it's called in German, was a hilltop castle that commanded the entrance to Austria's Brixental valley.
#2 Schloss Itter was a castle that was looted and partially destroyed during the 1515—1526 Tyrolean peasant uprising. It was...
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#1 In the year 699, the Proconsul of Gaul, Gaius Julius Cæsar, turned his attention to Britain. He knew that the island was inhabited by the same type of tribesmen who confronted the Roman arms in Gaul and Germany.
#2 Cæsar was planning on invading Britain, and had sent an officer in a warship to spy out the Island shore. He had concentrated the forces that had defeated the Veneti...
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#1 In 1100, Robert, duke of Normandy, the eldest son of William the Conqueror, returned from the Holy Land. He was a hero of the First Crusade, and he was the recognized heir to the throne of England. But his joy was short-lived; as Robert neared his native Norman soil, the news reached him that the king of England was dead and that he had been beaten to the crown...
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#1 The Rhine River was the natural bridge that allowed the barbari, the non-Romans, to cross into Rome. The Romans were weary and disciplined, while the barbarians were anxious and helter-skelter.
#2 The first volume of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in 1776. It raised far more interest in London than the news from...
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