Royalty category: 1453 books
Genios de la Estrategia Militar Volumen XVII
Cayo Julio César, emperador, guerrero, político, líder y estratega
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Cayo Julio César o Gayo Julio César nació en Roma en el año 100 A:C y murió asesinado en la misma ciudad a la edad de 56 años en el 44 a. C. Más conocido como el emperador, Julio César fue un político y militar, miembro de los patricios Julios Césares, que alcanzó las más altas magistraturas...
Bones around My Neck
The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based...
James I
Scotland's King of England
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimize the longer term consequences of his reign has gone too far. For, in spite of genuine idealism and flashes...
by Mark Sundeen
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Nell’autunno del 2000 Daniel Suelo abbandona i risparmi di una vita — in tutto trenta dollari — dentro una cabina telefonica. Ha vissuto senza soldi da allora. E non si è mai sentito così libero o così tanto in pace. In ‘‘L’uomo che ha abbandonato il denaro’’ Mark Sundeen racconta...
by Anne Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Eleanore of Aquitaine is a brief biography of the famous Queen, the wife of Henry II of England. A table of contents is included.
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt's "Jammers-minde" (Illustreret)
En egenhændig skiedring of hendes fangenskab i Blaataarn i aarene 1663-1685
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Als ich im Sommer des Jahres 1858 auf der Insel Fühnen, unweit des Schlosses Egeskov, in dem Dorfkirchlein zu Quærndrup die Gräber meiner dänischen Ahnen des Stammes Ulfeld besuchte, fasste ich den Entschluss, meiner frommen Ahnfrau Leonora Christinas Andenken — des Enkels Pflicht erfüllend...
by Stefan Zweig
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Reine d'Ecosse à l'âge de six jours, en 1542, puis reine de France à dix-sept ans par son mariage avec François II, Marie Stuart est un des personnages les plus romanesques de l'histoire. Veuve en 1560, elle rentre en Ecosse et épouse lord Darnley. Déçue par ce mariage, elle devient la maîtresse...
Souvenirs de la Duchesse de Dino
Publiés par sa petite fille, la Comtesse Jean de Castellane ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2018
Parmi les femmes du XIXe siècle, la plus Européenne peut-être fut celle qui s’appela d’abord princesse Dorothée de Courlande, puis comtesse de Périgord, enfin duchesse de Dino et de Sagan. Courlandaise d’origine, élevée en Allemagne, mariée en France, elle appartint par le sang, par...
From She-Wolf to Martyr
The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe’s most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign...
UN REINADO PARADÓJICO: ALFONSO XIII
Historia de España 1886-1941
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2015
«Un reinado paradójico» trata sobre el reinado de Alfonso XIII que fue factor determinante de la vida española de todo el siglo XX. Este Rey fue el verdadero protagonista de una época histórica que todavía despierta pasiones. La trayectoria personal y...
by Louis Bertrand
Language: French
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Né pour être roi, il le fut dès l'âge de cinq ans, sous la Régence de sa mère Anne d'Autriche et de son principal ministre le cardinal de Mazarin. C'est à la mort de ce dernier que Louis XIV, âgé de 23 ans, peut enfin prendre lui-même...
by Benjamin Jacobs
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2012
La storia di Berek Jakubowicz (ora Benjamin Jacobs), uno studente ebreo di odontoiatria che nel 1941 fu deportato dal suo villaggio polacco e trascorse cinque anni nei campi di sterminio nazisti, tra cui Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, e per quasi due anni Auschwitz. Ad Auschwitz, dove entrò in contatto...
by Vittorio Sabadin
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Il 10 dicembre del 1936 Edoardo VIII rinuncia al trono d’Inghilterra per amore dell’americana Wallis Simpson. Il nuovo sovrano è suo fratello “Bertie”, Giorgio vi, padre di Elisabetta e Margaret. In quei giorni la piccola Margaret, che ha solo sei anni, chiede alla sorella maggiore: «Questo...
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Il ritratto benevolo di una regina sfortunata, Maria Antonietta, poco amata, spesso vituperata, per lo più considerata frivola. E tra le pagine il racconto di una corte e della Rivoluzione che segnò in maniera definitiva il declino dell’assolutismo e la nascita dell’età contemporanea.