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James I

1988
A biography of the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was the first Stuart king of England, the sponsor of what is known as the King James Version of the Bible, and the monarch responsible for the migration of the Puritans to America in 1620.

Peter the Great

1999
A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.

Bloody Mary

2005
This book discusses the life of Mary I, who became queen of England in 1553 and who began executions of Protestant clerics in 1555.

Lionheart

2011
Richard, the second surviving son of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne from his brother, before embarking on the Third Crusade, a conflict that is complicated by the schemes of his usurping brother, John.

Queen Elizabeth I

2001
A biography of the English queen Elizabeth I, daughter of King Henry VIII, discussing her youth, struggles with Queen Mary of Scots, the Spanish armada, and her development of England.

The Virgin's Lover

2005
In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

The Lady Elizabeth

a novel
2008
A fictionalized account of the early life of Elizabeth Tudor, in which young Elizabeth copes with the tragic loss of her mother, Anne Boleyn, her father's abandonment, imprisonment in the Tower of London, and the private and public scandals that threaten her life and future.

Elizabeth I

2007
Presents a brief profile of Elizabeth I of England that describes her childhood and lineage, her ascension to the throne, and the accomplishments of her reign.

How far from Austerlitz?

Napoleon 1805-1815
1997
Examines the military campaigns of Napoleon and discusses his victory at Austerlitz in 1805 which led to his rise to political power, and his defeat at Waterloo in 1815 which led to his exile from France.

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