Dan Jones
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling historian Dan Jones and the brilliant artist Marina Amaral have combined their talents to create an illuminating visual history of women around the world. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, the acclaimed team behind The Color of Time: A New History of the World, combine their talents once again to explore the many roles--domestic, social, cultural, and professional--
2) Essex dogs
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War. July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
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Language
English
Description
"An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet...
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Language
English
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The best-selling author of The Plantagenets traces the 15th-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families. Includes six maps and four genealogies.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dan Jones and Marina Amaral tell the epic, harrowing, and world-changing story--in narrative form with colorized images--of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the first atom bomb. [The book] embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 and the tensions, ideologies, and economic forces that set them in motion, but also the revolutions in Russia; civil...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--even its language--can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange charter and how did it gain such legendary status? Historian Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King john reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a...
Author
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With Gin making record sales across Britain and the rest of the world, there's been a boom in new distilleries and a thirst for new ways to enjoy this juniper-based spirit. Enter Dan Jones, bestselling gin author and cocktail enthusiast, who will make you love this tasty drink even more. Starting with the history of gin, Dan reveals how the first distilleries opened in the UK in the 1600s, explains the nuts and bolts of making the beverage, as well...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history--the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal masters. In the summer of 1381, ravaged by poverty and oppressed by taxes, the people of England rose up and demanded that their voices be heard. A ragtag army, led...
Author
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Diana Spencer -- the young, shy, doe-eyed British noble -- became engaged to Prince Charles, she was thrust into the spotlight overnight. Navigating fandom previously unknown in the pre-social media age, Diana emerged not only as 'the queen of people's hearts' but as an icon of style, right up to her untimely death in 1997. This book showcases her fashion evolution, with illustrations of over 60 of her most loved looks and the stories behind...
15) On Chesil Beach
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Author
Publisher
Quadrille
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
15 Minute Vegan features a hundred brand new vegan recipes that can be prepared in mere moments. Using ingredients that are available in supermarkets, the recipes are as easy as can be - from shopping to cooking to serving. The book starts with Katy's introduction to vegan cooking and cooking, with advice on the equipment you need to make your cooking go faster, plus essential storecupboard ingredients. In chapters covering Breakfast, Light Bites,...
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Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Warm your cockles and lift your spirits ...Including all the recipes from Ainsley's new ITV show, this book is all about food that makes us happy! Because there's no two ways about it - food can definitely raise your spirits. In this uplifting cookbook you will find comforting classics, great food for sharing, recipes for a bit of indulgence, light and healthy dishes to help you feel good from the inside out, easy one-pots that are all weeknight...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Making bread has always been a passion for acclaimed chef and TV-personality Gennaro Contaldo. Ingrained since childhood with memories of his mothers weekly bread-making and visits to his uncles village bakery, it is a skill that has followed him throughout his career as a chef. Here, Gennaro takes you onto a journey into the magical world of Italian bread and baking, giving you his secret tips on making the perfect dough to create wonderful Italian...