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“don jordan”

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  • The King's Revenge

    by Don Jordan ...
    When Charles I was executed, his son made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. When he ascended to the throne in 1660 as Charles II, his search for revenge intensified, with show trials in London and assassination squads scouring foreign countries. Many of the most senior ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The King's Bed

    by Don Jordan ...
    To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom.Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The King's City

    by Don Jordan ...
    During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the center for major advances in the sciences, the theatre, architecture, trade and ship-building that paved the way for the creation of the British Empire.At the heart of this activity was the King, whose return to power from exile in 1660 lit the fuse for an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Nicholas Van Hoogstraten

    Blood and Retribution

    by Don Jordan Mike Walsh ...
    Nicholas van Hoogstraten is a super-rich business man whose ruthless exploits have kept his name in the headlines for 30 years. Most recently, he was found guilty of the manslaughter of business associate Mohammed Sabir Raja, who was stabbed five times and shot at point-blank range by hitmen sent by Hoogstraten. This was the culmination of a career of wreaking vengeance on anyone who dared get in ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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    White Cargo

    The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

    by Don Jordan, Michael Walsh ...
    Narrated by Roger Clark ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The King’s Bed

    Sex and Power in the Court of Charles II

    by Don Jordan, Michael Walsh ...
    Narrated by Steve West ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    From two veteran historians comes an intelligent and spirited history of Charles II’s dissolute life and surprising legacy.To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers, and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Republic

    Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660

    by Alice Hunt ...
    Narrated by Sophie Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 12 min

    A biography of a daring and an unprecedented decade: the 1650sEvents moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction. It was a time of bewildering change and uncertainty, but it was also a time of innovation and opportunity. And, for ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Restless Republic

    Britain without a Crown

    by Anna Keay ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEEleven years when Britain had no king.In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution.On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the ‘useless and dangerous’ House ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 3 - The History of England
    Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II.The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Richard III

    by David Baldwin ...
    Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richards character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended, and the arguments between his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Real Guy Fawkes

    by Nick Holland ...
    This biography looks behind the mask of the seventeenth-century rebel who became a controversial folk hero for his role in the infamous Gunpowder Plot.Today, Guy Fawkes is an instantly recognizable symbol of violent rebellion across the globe. Some proudly dress in his image while others burn his effigy. But few people know the story of the man behind the legend. In The Real Guy Fawkes, biographer ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blazing World

    A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

    by Jonathan Healey ...
    AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“[Healy] makes a convinci... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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