Desmond Seward was educated at Ampleforth and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Among the most highly regarded popular historians of his generation, he was the author of some thirty books, including biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry V, Richard III, Marie Antoinette and Metternich. He died in 2022.
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Desmond Seward: The King Over the Water
Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award
Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts …
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Desmond Seward: Demon’s Brood
The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family – from Henry II, to Richard III. Four kings were murdered, two came close to deposition and another was killed in a battle by …
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Desmond Seward: Brief History of the Wars of the Roses
During the fifteenth century England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The civil wars consumed the whole nation in a series of …
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Desmond Seward: Brief History of the Hundred Years War
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for …
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Desmond Seward: Naples
Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political …
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Desmond Seward: Last White Rose
A brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history.The Wars of the Roses didn’t end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry …
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€3.49
Seward Desmond Seward & Mountgarret Susan Mountgarret: Old Puglia
Apulia (or Puglia) is the heel of Italy, stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. Its landscape is often very beautiful and it has wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic …
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€24.83
Seward Desmond Seward: Armchair Traveller’s History of Apulia
An Armchair Traveller’s History of Apulia is the story of the heel of Italy – Puglia – as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto …
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€24.93
Desmond Seward: The Greatest Viking
Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint.
This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived.
A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess …
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€20.39
