The Last Days of Richard III contains a new & uniquely detailed exploration of Richards last 150 days & explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself & his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field we discover a new Richard: no passive victim awaiting defeat & death but a king actively pursuing his own policies & agenda. It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richards body; his burial; & the construction of his tomb. Based on newly discovered evidence & wider insights it explores the motives underlying these events. & there is the fascinating story of why & how Richard IIIs DNA was rediscovered alive & well & living in Canada. John Ashdown-Hill has produced a stimulating & thought-provoking acount of the end of Richards life. Even readers very familiar with his short life will discover a new & fascinating picture of him. ...

The Last Days of Richard III contains a new & uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field we discover a new Richard: no passive victim awaiting defeat & death but a king actively pursuing his own agenda. It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; his burial; & the construction of his tomb. & there is the fascinating story of why & how Richard III's family tree was traced until a relative was found alive & well in Canada. Now with the discovery of Richard's skeleton at the Greyfrairs Priory in Leicester England John Ashdown-Hill explains how his book inspired the dig & completes Richard III's fascinating story giving details of how Richard died & how the DNA link to a living relative of the king allowed the royal body to be identified. ...

The trial & condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy & corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues Plato also developed his own philosophy based on Socrates manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house debating the nature of piety while The Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety & a defence of the philosophers life. In the Crito while awaiting execution in prison Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally in the Phaedo he is shown calmly confident in the face of death skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul. ...

A Leaf in The Wind covers the last days of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) up to & following his mysterious & fatal motorcycle accident on the 13th of May 1935. New evidence discovered by the authors questions the original story published at the time & sheds new light on his tragic death. Meticulously researched over several years these painstaking investigations have revealed many new insights in Lawrences life activities & interests some of which may surprise & offend many people. The documentary & photographic evidence encompasses some 60 plates maps & figures & for anyone with an interest in T E Lawrence this book will be essential reading. ...

In 1572 the Spanish sacked Vilcabamba the last Inca stronghold & the city was rapidly overtaken by the jungle receding for hundreds of years into legend & myth. This is the story of how Vilcabamba was founded & how the Incas held out against the Spanish for over 30 years in a savage guerrilla war. Hundreds of years later at the turn of this century an American explorer Hiram Bingham stumbled on the ruins of Machu Pichu & announced to the world that he had found Vilcabamba the lost city of the Incas. For fifty years the academic world agreed with him until in 1967 another American explorer discovered the real Vilcabamba... This is the biography of a city
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Good-quality colour photographs of the last days of the steam age are rare. Many of those that do exist have been published repeatedly but the 250 colour photographs featured in this book taken between 1958 & 1968 are an exception. It is believed that the photographer & author 76-year-old Gavin Morrison has Britain's largest personal collection of colour slides still in the hands of the original photographer. This attractive large-format book shows steam locomotives at work throughout the country in all weathers & in a year-by-year presentation accompanied by the author's knowledgeable commentary. ...

Elvis Coles girlfriend Lucy is out of town & she has left her young son Ben in Elviss care. Elvis & Lucy have had a few problems lately
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THE LAST DETECTIVE Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective
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The first two volumes of Alan Clarks were irresistible irreverent infamous outrageous. This last volume is a fitting finale to the work of a man who has been described as the best diarist of his century. The third volume begins in 1991 with Alan Clark contemplating quitting as an MP. Life at Saltwood Castle his home hangs heavy; then comes the Scott inquiry & the Matrix Churchill affair. Publication of the first volume of the Diaries leads the coven a family of former girlfriends to sell their story to the NEWS OF THE WORLD. This volume follows his attempts to return to Westminster an affair that threatens his marriage & closes with the tragedy of his final months when he is diagnosed with a brain tumour but keeps his diary until he can no longer focus on the page. ...

News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R. Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood & suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel Osgood sends his clerk Daniel Sands to await its arrival. When Daniels body is found by the docks the manuscript is nowhere to be found Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest that leads him to the dangerous streets of London in order to unearth the rest of Dickens final mystery & solve another of his own. ...