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Document Type: | Book |
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David Starkey |
ISBN: | 9780007247660 0007247664 |
OCLC Number: | 851769175 |
Target Audience: | General (US: Trade). |
Description: | 256 pages : color, illustrations (chiefly) ; 20 x 13 cm |
Responsibility: | David Starkey. |
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'In the hands of another historian, the results might have been dry and overly academic, but Starkey, always an engaging writer, has a gift for bringing ideas as well as individuals to life.' The Sunday Times 'Excellent...the really crucial events in the history of the British Monarchy since the Middle Ages are assessed with authority, wisdom and wit...This is Starkey at his fluent and entertaining best.' Sunday Telegraph 'This book...is vivid, lucid and engaging...his judgements delivered with quasi-Pontifical assurance are often acute...a very enjoyable book.' Daily Telegraph 'David Starkey tours England's monarchical horizon with gusto.' Sunday Times 'Starkey brings the past to vivid life.' Daily Express 'Combines compelling narrative and lucid analysis to guide us with a sure hand through two centuries of domestic turmoil unparalleled in any other period of English history...nowhere is there to be found a better short summary of the Glorious Revolution of 1688...Starkey's book will undoubtedly make him and his publishers a tidy profit.' The Spectator Read more...