Book Description
This gripping tale of seventeenth-century England's most wanted man is set against the background of the civil wars in England and Ireland.
Author : David C. Hanrahan
Publisher : History Press (SC)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This gripping tale of seventeenth-century England's most wanted man is set against the background of the civil wars in England and Ireland.
Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1681771861
One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly, he managed to escape with the regalia and crown before being apprehended. And yet he was not executed for treason. Instead, the king granted him a generous income and he became a familiar strutting figure in the royal court's glittering state apartments.This man was Colonel Thomas Blood, a notorious turncoat and fugitive from justice. Nicknamed the 'Father of all Treasons,' he had been involved in an attempted coup d'etat in Ireland as well as countless plots to assassinate Charles II. In an age when gossip and intrigue ruled the coffee houses, the restored Stuart king decided Blood was more useful to him alive than dead. But while serving as his personal spy, Blood was conspiring with his enemies. At the same time he hired himself out as a freelance agent for those seeking to further their political ambition.In The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood, bestselling historian Robert Hutchinson paints a vivid portrait of a double agent bent on ambiguous political and personal motivation, and provides an extraordinary account of the perils and conspiracies that abounded in Restoration England.
Author : Angus Donald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499861710
For fans of Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell, Robyn Young and Ben Kane, comes the new historical series from the bestselling author of the Outlaw Chronicles. *This is FREE EBOOK SAMPLER for Angus Donald's thrilling brand-new novel BLOOD'S GAME* THE THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 'OUTLAW CHRONICLES'. AFTER THE TUDORS CAME THE STUARTS . . . London, Winter 1670. Holcroft Blood has entered the employ of the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom after the king. It is here that his education really begins. With a gift for numbers and decoding ciphers, Holcroft soon proves invaluable to the Duke, but when he's pushed into a betrayal he risks everything for revenge. His father, Colonel Thomas Blood, has fallen on hard times. A man used to fighting, he lives by his wits and survives by whatever means necessary. When he's asked to commit treason by stealing the crown jewels, he puts himself and his family in a dangerous situation - one that may end at the gallows. As the machinations of powerful men plot to secure the country's future, both father and son must learn what it is to survive in a more dangerous battlefield than war - the court of King Charles II. One false step could prove fatal . . .
Author : Daniel Diehl
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0752473786
A history of the building itself, told through the stories of the people, royal and common, good and bad, heroes and villains, who lived and died there. This book presents a microcosm of human experience, from love and death to greed and betrayal, all played out against romantic period settings ranging from medieval knights to the days of World War Two.
Author : Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN :
"Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-stealer, 1618-1680" by Wilbur Cortez Abbott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Crown jewels
ISBN :
Author : Thomas J. Foley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451663935
The riveting, event-by-event account of former head of Massachusetts State Police Foley's 20-year pursuit of murderous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger--and of Foley's key role in exposing the FBI's terrible corruptive protection of Bulger's criminal empire.
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486112993
Physician and country gentleman Peter Blood is forced to turn from medicine to piracy in this swashbuckling classic brimming with stolen treasure, adventure on the high seas, and romance.
Author : Vanessa Neumann
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250089352
Revealing how the multibillion-dollar illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products is actually funding the world's terrorist organizations, a report by an expert on countering illicit trade explains the dangerous consequences of purchasing contraband.
Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190600543
In 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of hyper-violent millennialists; and the peace process in Israel seemed to completely collapse. In short, the post-Cold War security order that the US had constructed after 1991 seemed to be coming apart at the seams. David Kilcullen was one of the architects of America's strategy in the late phases of the second Gulf War, and he has also spent time in Afghanistan and other hotspots. In Blood Year, he provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. Kilcullen lays much of the blame on Bush's initial decision to invade Iraq (which had negative secondary effects in Afghanistan), but also takes Obama to task for simply withdrawing and adopting a "leading from behind" strategy. As events have proven, Kilcullen contends, withdrawal was a fundamentally misguided plan. The U.S. had uncorked the genie, and it had a responsibility to at least attempt to keep it under control. Instead, the U.S. is at a point where administration officials state that the losses of Ramadi and Palmyra are manageable setbacks. Kilcullen argues that the U.S. needs to re-engage in the region, whether it wants to or not, because it is largely responsible for the situation that is now unfolding. Blood Year is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding not only why the region that the U.S. invaded a dozen years ago has collapsed into utter chaos, but also what the U.S. can do to alleviate the grim situation.