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Desmond Seward

Born

in Paris, France

May 22, 1935

Died

April 03, 2022

Website

http://www.desmondseward.com/

Genre

History, Biography

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Desmond Seward was an Anglo-Irish popular historian and the author of over two dozen books. He was educated at Ampleforth and St, Catherine's College, Cambridge. He was a specialist in England and France in the Middle Ages and the author of some thirty books, including biographies of Eleanor of Aquitane, Henry V, Richard III, Marie Antoinette and Metternich. ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 5,633 ratings · 715 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453 3.86 avg rating — 1,382 ratings — published 1978 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century 3.79 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty 3.58 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 2014 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors 3.81 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brief History of the Hundred Years War 3.76 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders 3.62 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1972 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard III 3.39 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea 4.04 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eleanor of Aquitaine 3.66 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1978 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eugenie: The Empress And Her Empire 3.77 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.”
― Desmond Seward, The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders

tags: crusade, german, history, knights, monk, war

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“And though Hitler ruined Europe, destroying its dominance, he did at least demolish some of the obstacles which stood in the way of a united continent. Napoleon called the continent ‘a rotten old whore whom I shall treat as I please’, while in 1943 Goebbels recorded the Führer’s ‘unshakeable conviction that the Reich will be master of all Europe’ – two years later, just before his death, Hitler said of the continent, ‘I had to rape it in order to possess it.”
― Desmond Seward, Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biography

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“I certainly deprecate any comparison between Herr Hitler and Napoleon: I do not wish to insult the dead. Winston Churchill, speech at Harrow in December 1940”
― Desmond Seward, Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biography

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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like the group to read together as our Group Read in February 2018?

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton

12 votes, 13.6%

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

11 votes, 12.5%

The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England by Ann Wroe

9 votes, 10.2%

The Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles - Henry VIII's Nearest & Dearest by Sarah-Beth Watkins

9 votes, 10.2%

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb

7 votes, 8.0%

Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Margaret Campbell Barnes

6 votes, 6.8%

The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors by Desmond Seward

5 votes, 5.7%

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

5 votes, 5.7%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

5 votes, 5.7%

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory

4 votes, 4.5%

Anne of Cleves: Henry's Luckiest Wife by D. Lawrence-Young

4 votes, 4.5%

The Player King by Avi

4 votes, 4.5%

A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England by Suzannah Lipscomb

4 votes, 4.5%

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Elizabeth Norton

3 votes, 3.4%

88 total votes

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