HOME Popular Books Popular Audioooks Popular Textbooks Popular Freebooks More Genres

Book

Audiobook

Genres

Quarrel with the King

By Adam Nicolson

Release : 2008-10-29

Genre : European History, Books, History

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650—Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. With vivid color and fascinating detail, acclaimed historian Adam Nicolson recounts the story of a century-long power struggle between England's richest family and the English Crown—a fascinating study of divided loyalties, corruption, rights and privilege, and all the ambiguities involved in the exercise and maintenance of power and status.

Quarrel with the King

By Adam Nicolson

Release : 2008-10-29

Genre : European History, Books, History

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650—Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. With vivid color and fascinating detail, acclaimed historian Adam Nicolson recounts the story of a century-long power struggle between England's richest family and the English Crown—a fascinating study of divided loyalties, corruption, rights and privilege, and all the ambiguities involved in the exercise and maintenance of power and status.

advertisement

Access e-books

More By Adam Nicolson

The Odyssey

Why Homer Matters

How to Be

The Seabird's Cry

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

Life Between the Tides

The Making of Poetry

Atlantic Britain

Γιατί ο Όμηρος Έχει Σημασία

Seeraum

God's Secretaries

Seize the Fire

Quarrel with the King