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Masters of the Post - Duncan Campbell Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Masters of the Post - Duncan Campbell Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Vivid, detailed, colourful ... a first-class history ... all sorts of delights leap out of these pages'' Daily Telegraph From the very first ''master of the post'' in 1512 to the vast network of today, the Royal Mail is an intrinsic part of everyday life in Britain. This book tells its extraordinary story in full. Whether describing the sensation caused by the penny post in 1840, the Post Office boffins who helped the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, the growth of telegrams and telephones, or the many visionaries, philanthropists and firebrands who made the service what it is today, Masters of the Post shows how the history of the Royal Mail is our history.

DKK 239.00
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A Royal Duty - Paul Burrell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Royal Duty - Paul Burrell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discover the untold story behind one of the most sensational chapters in the history of the House of Windsor ''This book had me in tears and also made me smile'' 5***** Reader Review ''A loving, informative, respectful tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales'' 5***** Reader Review ''A brilliant and provoking book . . . I was stunned'' 5***** Reader Review _______ In A Royal Duty, Paul Burrell reveals new truths about Princess Diana - and presents for the first time as faithful an account of her thoughts as we can ever hope to read. He was the favourite footman who formed a unique relationship with the Queen. He was the butler who the Princess of Wales called ''my rock'' and ''the only man I can trust''. He was accused of theft, then acquitted following the historic intervention of the monarch. He was the Princess'' most intimate confidante - and is the only person able to separate the myth from the truth of the Diana years. Now, at last, Paul Burrell cuts through the gossip and the lies and takes us closer to the complex heart of the Royal Family than ever before.

DKK 155.00
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Dianaworld - Bog af Edward White - Hardback

Dianaworld - Bog af Edward White - Hardback

For more than forty years, Diana, Princess of Wales, has been mythologized to the most extraordinary degree. Adored and lionized by some, ridiculed and traduced by others, Diana has always commanded a cultural presence unmatched by any other member of the royal family.In Dianaworld, Edward White offers both a portrait of the princess and a group portrait of those who existed in her orbit-from her royal in-laws, her servants, and the dilapidated ranks of the British aristocracy from which she rose,..

DKK 214.95
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The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis - Stephan Malinowski - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis - Stephan Malinowski - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The disappearance of the Hohenzollern family from the history of Germany in November 1918 as the Kaiser fled into Dutch exile is one of the most startling, rapid instances of a once all-powerful royal family becoming almost overnight irrelevant and marginal. Except this is not exactly what happened. Stephan Malinowski’s German bestseller is an extraordinary work of recovery. It suited both the Weimar Republic and then the Third Reich to view the Hohenzollerns with contempt, and yet the royal family’s hatred of the former and approval of the latter were for millions of Germans a significant factor in their own view of their country and its government. With forensic and often shocking detail, Malinowski shows that, far from being ridiculous, marginal figures the Hohenzollerns lay at the heart of Germany’s ongoing nightmare. Despite formally losing power, the members of the royal family remained prominent, catastrophically allowing many other conservative Germans to stay distanced from the new republic and to eventually betray conservative traditions and values. Battered from both left and right, the Republic collapsed in 1933 in part because conservative forces, fearful of both Communism and Fascism, had abandoned their own principles just as much as the leading members of former royal family had, who were themselves beguiled by and fooled by Hitler. This is an important and shocking book, as well as a devastating picture of an inadequate and trivial royal family painfully underequipped to fulfil its role.

DKK 182.00
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Nefertiti - Joyce Tyldesley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nefertiti - Joyce Tyldesley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrated throughout Egypt and her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death, no monument serves to mourn her passing and to this day her end remains an enigma - her body has never been found. Joyce Tyldesley here provides a detailed discussion of the life and times of Nefertiti, Egypt''s sun queen, set against the background of the ephemeral Amarna court.

DKK 182.00
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Mrs Jordan's Profession - Claire Tomalin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mrs Jordan's Profession - Claire Tomalin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mrs Jordan''s Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin''Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction'' Independent on Sunday Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to Prince William, third son of George III. Unmarried, the pair lived in a villa on the Thames and had ten children together until William, under pressure from royal advisers, abandoned her. The story of how Dora moved between the worlds of the eighteenth-century theatre and happy domesticity, of her fights for her family and her career makes a classic story of royal perfidy and female courage.From the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman , this celebrated biography is one of history''s most astonishing untold stories.''The strangest and most sensational story Tomalin has told so far. A miraculously detailed portrait - as brisk, unsentimental, good-humoured and fairminded as its subject'' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph ''Compelling, shrewd in its judgements, exceptionally well written, and informed by a vivid sense of the past'' John Gross, Sunday Telegraph ''Fascinating, affecting. A compelling story and Tomalin tells it with clarity and warmth'' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft ; Shelley and His World ; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan''s Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life . A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times , she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

DKK 221.00
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The Falcons of Fire and Ice - Karen Maitland - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Falcons of Fire and Ice - Karen Maitland - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Falcons of Fire and Ice by Karen Maitland, author of the hugely popular Company of Liars , is a powerful historical thriller which takes you right back to the darkest corners of the 16th century. Intelligently written and meticulously researched, it is a real treat for all fans of CJ Sansom and Umberto Eco''s The Name of the Rose. ''A tour de force: dark and woven with the supernatural'' Daily Mail 1564, Lisbon. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured and burned. Any who oppose the Church''s will realize that silence is preferable to a slow and agonizing death. Isabela, daughter of the Falconer at the Royal Court, is about to be caught in the Church''s terrifying schemes. The slaughter of two of the King''s precious white falcons sees her father arrested and imprisoned. As punishment he and his family will be killed unless the birds are replaced.Isabela, young and headstrong, decides that only she can save her father. These birds are impossibly rare, and she will have to travel far and into strange lands to find them to clear her father''s name. It is a journey that will take her into a dark and dangerous world filled with menacing people driven by fearful beliefs.And, unfortunately for Isabela, the Church has sent a companion to ensure she never returns . . .Step back in time with Karen Maitland''s Dark Tales and discover a world full of imagination in The Falcons of Fire and Ice - ''a thrilling horrible vision of the Dark Ages'' Metro Karen Maitland travelled and worked in many parts of the United Kingdom before finally settling in the beautiful medieval city of Lincoln. She is the author of The White Room , Company of Liars , The Owl Killers and The Gallows Curse . The latter three titles are available as Penguin paperbacks.

DKK 182.00
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