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  • Saxons vs. Vikings

    Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    A witty and concise look at the beginnings of English history, when the nation consolidated after clashes between the Saxons and invading Vikings.In 871, three of England's four kingdoms were overrun by Vikings, the ruthless, all-conquering Scandinavian raiders who terrorized early medieval Europe. With the Norsemen murdering one king with arrows and torturing another to death by ripping out his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 1066 and Before All That

    The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides.1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history.The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases

    The Hundred Years' War and Black Death

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    A revealing glimpse into the tumultuous history of England’s medieval period, full of knights in shining armor and terrible peasant suffering.Covering the violent and disease-ridden period between 1272 to 1399, England in the Age of Chivalry. . . And Awful Diseases covers the events, personages and ideas most commonly known as "medieval". This includes Geoffrey Chaucer, the Peasants revolt, the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • My Kingdom for a Horse

    The War of the Roses

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    From William Shakespeare's series of history dramas to Sir Walter Scott and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, not to mention the smash-hit TV show Game of Thrones, the British civil war of 1455 to 1485 has inspired writers more than any other.Ed West's My Kingdom for a Horse illuminates the bloody war fought for thirty long years between the descendants of King Edward III in a battle ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 1215 and All That

    Magna Carta and King John

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    1215 is one of the most famous dates in English history, and with good reason, since it marks the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the English barons, which altered the entire course of English and world history.John Lackland was born to King Henry II and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitane in December, 1166; he was the youngest of five sons. However, he unexpectedly became the favored heir to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Iron, Fire and Ice

    The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones

    by Ed West ...
    Have you read everything George R.R. Martin has every written? Do you know what in Game of Thrones is based in real history?A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Diversity Illusion

    What We Got Wrong About Immigration & How to Set It Right

    by Ed West ...
    2002 - ICM Research polling for the BBC: 47 per cent of white Britons believed immigration had damaged British society (a belief shared by 22 per cent of black and Asian Britons) and 28 per cent believed it had benefited it. 2012 - YouGov polling for the Sunday Times: 11 per cent of people believe that immigration in the past decade has been 'a good thing for Britain' - 67 per cent think it has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Small Men on the Wrong Side of History

    The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

    by Ed West ...
    'An entertaining, wide-ranging defence and explanation of the conservative way of seeing the world . . . suffused with generosity and wit' Catholic HeraldBrought up by eccentric intellectuals, Ed West experienced what he believed was a fairly normal childhood of political pamphlets as bedtime reading, family holidays to East Germany and a father who was one political step away from advocating the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Coarse Cockney Rhyming Slang

    by Ed West ...
    Cockney is the dialect of East London. It was back in the 14th century that the term 'cockney' was first coined, as an insult by country folk to describe working class Londoners and their speech - cockeneyes meaning rotten egg, or, more literally, the egg of a cock. The dialect developed as the capital grew in Tudor and Georgian times, but it didn't become an identifying feature of London life ... Read more

    $3.26 USD

  • The Great Transition

    Bridges to the Afterlife

    Have you ever wondered if it is possible to stay in touchwith your loved ones and share their journey in the afterlife?What happens after death is far too important for us to rely on hand-me-down teachings. We need the authority of first-hand experience. This is what Ann West provides in her moving narrative of her remarkable attempt to continue her friendship with three extraordinary women for ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    1066 and Before All That

    The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman England

    by Ed West ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Very, Very Short History of England Series

    Unabridged

    5 hours 28 min

    A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history.The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Saxons vs. Vikings

    Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages

    by Ed West ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Very, Very Short History of England Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 40 min

    A witty and concise look at the beginnings of English history, when the nation consolidated after clashes between the Saxons and invading VikingsIn 871, three of England’s four kingdoms were overrun by Vikings, the ruthless, all-conquering Scandinavian raiders who terrorized early medieval Europe. With the Norsemen murdering one king with arrows and torturing another to death by ripping out his ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus