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Great Tales: Battle of the Boyne to DNA v. 3 (Hardcover)

by Robert Lacey (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown (5 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316727172
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316727174
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.7 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,670 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Your Country Needs You! Edward the Abdicator and Peace for our Time - the latest volume of GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY enters the twentieth century with a flourish. Starting in 1690, in the reign of William III and Queen Mary, this crackling collection of freshly researched stories recounts the modern history of England. Robert Lacey's gift for marrying great events with extraordinary individuals illustrates familiar tales from new, often quirky and always entertaining angles. The origin of the Luddite name is explained; the mutiny on the BOUNTY is attributed to fruit; the showdown on Culloden Moor ends the Scottish challenge to the English throne and gives rise to the world's first national anthem. These centuries also see the passing of milestones in social history, from the championing of the Rights of Man to the long struggle for equal rights for women; but, perhaps most significantly, these tales also trace extraordinary advances in science and technology, right up to the revolution in genetics. This is history with pace, punch and personality. Robert Lacey's pinpoint accuracy in research is matched by his unerring instinct for the stories behind the headlines of history.

About the Author
Robert Lacey won international renown for his book MAJESTY in 1977. He has written many bestsellers since, including THE YEAR 1000.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A great tale for great reading, 9 Jan 2005
By MR M S WATTS (Redhill, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution v. 2 (Hardcover)
This is a delightful book. A book to read curled up in front of the fire on a cold winter's day. A lovely book to hold and weigh in your hands. But be warned. It is a book to ration - no more than one or two short chapters at a time - and it will have you ransacking your bookshelves to chase up more information or scouring your local library for more detailed works. Any book that kindles or reawakens a passion for English history is a treasure. And this book, along with the first volume in the series, does just that. Not only does Robert Lacey keep each tale sufficiently brief for his readers to keep track of the larger plot but, by cramming so much information into just a few paragraphs, he makes us feel we have a good grasp of what each topic is all about. Yet at the same time he leaves us asking for more. And that is where the list of references, especially the details of the latest websites, is particularly helpful. Like me, Lacey is not an academic and I cannot guarantee the quality of his scholarship (I thought the legend of Thomas More's private jail was now considered apocryphal). But the book is convincing as an honest attempt at telling the truth as the best of today's historians currently understand it. It is a book I can heartedly recommend.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very entertaining, 8 Nov 2006
By Bernard Smith (Somewhere, Europe) - See all my reviews
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It is only after buying and reading this book that I realized that it is one of a series covering different time periods of English history. So my first comment is that this book can be read and enjoyed independently of the other volumes. In fact I found this book just the kind of bedtime reading I like, and I will be buying the other volumes in the near future. The book consists of 60 short stories, each 3-5 pages long, ranging from John Locke (1690), though Brunel (1843), to Crick and Watson (1953). As I read through the initial tales my first impression was that they were a little too concise and did not include sufficient context to appreciate fully the story being told. However as I approached the Spinning Jenny (1766) and Ned Ludd (1812) I realized what the problem was. My long forgotten school education had more or less jumped from the Romans and Viking straight into the 1800's, leaving a big gap of ignorance in the middle. Thus I found it far easier to situate the tales dating from 1760-70 in the context of my (admittedly still limited) knowledge of English history. Here is the strength of the book, and lets drop the "great" and employ the more useful "entertaining", it brings a bit of life to what many people (including myself) see as a rather dry and dusty subject. The tales can be read as nothing more than interesting snippets about the past. The style of writing is uncomplicated and light, yet each tale is rich and enjoyable. However the book also does a really good job in wetting the reader's appetite for more, and in this context the 20 pages of "bibliography and source notes" are a very welcome addition (the Web addresses are also appreciated).
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A reasonable overview, 7 Jun 2005
By Mrs. D. J. Smith "eowyngreenleaf" (Luton, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution v. 2 (Hardcover)
I enjoyed Lacey's first volume, which took us from Cheddar Man to The Peasants Revolt, and hoped that this second volume would be as entertaining. Lacey uses the same readable and anecdotal style, but perhaps it is because I am more familiar with late medieval and early modern history that I didn't enjoy this as much as the first volume. Events are not really studied in depth, which is not always helpful when events, and those of the Wars of the Roses in particular, are so complex. It didn't bode well when the Plantagenet family tree at the beginning of the book had the rose emblems the wrong way around! Not a bad starting point if your history is sketchy though!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Go on! Buy it!!
Having read the other books in Mr Lacey's series I thoroughly enjoyed picking this one up.
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Published on 27 Mar 2007 by S. D. Hutt

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I first discovered Robert Lacey as an author from his book 'The Year 1000'. Interesting, accessible, easy to follow, with a good balance of detail and breadth (always a tricky... Read more
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