Tower of London

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The Tower of London: Past and Present By Geoffrey Parnell The History Press Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $24.95* Lowest New Price: $15.53* Lowest Used Price: $19.64* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780752450360 Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product Description: This history of the buildings of the Tower of London - one of England's most famous and popular tourist sites - shows how the monument has changed over the centuries. The author, who has himself undertaken detailed excavations in the Tower, traces the development of the fortifications and the evolution of the palatial complex. He looks at the numerous functions the buildings of the Tower have been put to fortress, armoury, palace, prison, mint and even zoo - and the adaptations made to house them all. Incorporating the results of recent archaeological investigations and documentary research, and using plans, reconstructions, photographs and drawings, this book shows how each age has affected the appearance of the Tower and unlocks some of its architectural secrets.

Ghosts of the Tower of London By G. Abbott Hendon Publishing Co Ltd Paperback (85 pages) List Price: $9.20* Lowest New Price: $83.22* Lowest Used Price: $0.06* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here

The Tower of London-The Official Guide Book, paperback, copyrighted 1996 By copyrighted 1996 The Tower of London-The Official Guide Book Paperback Lowest Used Price: $6.48* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here All pages clean and intact. Contains photos, drawings and history of famous London landmark, the Tower of London. Very minor wear. Product Description: British Publication. Purchased in London official guide book to historical Tower of London.

The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London By Natsume Soseki Peter Owen Ltd Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $35.95* Lowest New Price: $20.63* Lowest Used Price: $26.23* Usually ships in 1 to 4 months* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In October 1900, a brilliant but largely unknown Japanese scholar arrived in London to commence two years of intense study. The scholar would later become the most celebrated Japanese writer of all time, Natsume Soseki, and produce a dazzling collection of novels, memoirs, criticism and short stories that form the bedrock of modern Japanese literature. Against the backdrop of these images, Soseki develops profound reflections on universal themes. The river Thames is transformed into the river Styx; the Tower of London becomes a gateway to the Underworld; mysterious boarding houses and the spirits of the dead are encountered through relics and memoir; time itself is regained and explored.This new translation provides the perfect introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest authors, accompanied for the first time with a comprehensive critical introduction, and a wry fictional account of a meeting between Soseki and Sherlock Holmes.

The Bloody Tower of London By Nancy Hendrickson Green Pony Press, Inc. Kindle Edition List Price: $1.99* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In Shakespeare’s King Richard III, a young Edward V asked about the origin of the Tower of London. “Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?” The Duke of Buckingham replied, “He did, my gracious lord, begin that place; which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.” Although the thought of a Roman Emperor helping build one of London’s most famous landmarks must have appealed to the Bard of Avon, his poetic license was far off the mark. Construction of the Tower of London was begun shortly after Christmas Day 1066, by William, Duke of Normandy, who had recently been crowned King of England. Almost immediately following his coronation, William ordered the construction of a fort to be strategically located to command the River Thames. Ten years later, William began transforming his fort to a great stone tower which would serve as a fortress for his center of power—London.

Tales from the Tower of London By Daniel Diehl Sutton Publishing Paperback (256 pages) List Price: $16.95* Lowest New Price: $83.92* Lowest Used Price: $17.18* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A factual history of one of the most recognisable buildings on the planet. The Tower has served as both palace and prison during its thousand-year history.

The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London By Daniel Hahn Hardcover (288 pages) List Price: $26.95* Lowest New Price: $8.13* Lowest Used Price: $3.82* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: An entertaining and enlightening history of Britain's first zoo: the Tower of London menagerie. When King Henry III was given three leopards by his new brother-in-law, Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor, he ordered -- in desperation -- that they be sent to the Tower of London, his great fortress by the bank of the Thames. After all, where does one keep such things? Soon after the leopards' arrival in 1235 they were joined by an even greater wonder, a huge Norwegian polar bear which was encouraged to catch its own food from the river to save on upkeep expenses. And over the next 600 years -- until the menagerie was closed down by Wellington in 1835, a few years before it became clear he had an interest in the soon-to-open London Zoo -- the Tower played host to thousands more exotic creatures, all brought from overseas by returning explorers or VIP guests. Daniel Hahn's charming history of the first zoo explores the uses and abuses of the menagerie and the legion of Great and Good who came to behold its wonders, from William Blake, who came to look at the 'tygers', to John Wesley, who played his flute to the Tower lions in an attempt to establish if they had souls. Fascinating and insightful in equal measure, The Tower Menagerie is both an intriguing survey of our changing attitudes to animals and a hugely entertaining canter through six centuries of British history.

The Lady in the Tower: The Wives of Henry VIII By Jean Plaidy Three Rivers Press Released: 2003-06-24 Paperback (400 pages) List Price: $13.95* Lowest New Price: $6.96* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9781400047857 Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product Description: One of history’s most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy. Young Anne Boleyn was not beautiful but she was irresistible, capturing the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious country lord, Anne was sent to France to learn sophistication, and then to court to marry well and raise the family’s fortunes. She soon surpassed even their greatest expectations. Although his queen was loving and loyal, King Henry VIII swore he would put her aside and make Anne his wife. And so he did, though the divorce would tear apart the English church and inflict religious turmoil and bloodshed on his people for generations to come. Loathed by the English people, who called her “the King’s Great Whore,” Anne Boleyn was soon caught in the trap of her own ambition. Political rivals surrounded her at court and, when she failed to produce a much-desired male heir, they closed in, preying on the king’s well-known insecurity and volatile temper. Wrongfully accused of adultery and incest, Anne found herself imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she was at the mercy of her husband and of her enemies.

SHOT IN THE TOWER: The Story of the Spies executed in the Tower of London during the First World War By Leonard Sellers Pen and Sword Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $25.99* Lowest New Price: $14.21* Lowest Used Price: $13.22* Usually ships in 7 to 13 days* *(As of 15:43 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The first reaction to Leonard Sellers fascinating account of the spies who were executed in the Tower of London during the First World War is likely to be one of amazement at their ineptitude. Not one of them seems to have had any proper training or any idea of how to set about the job. This, of course raises the intriguing question: how many others were there who did know what they were up to and managed to escape detection? However, thanks to the more liberal attitude now prevalent regarding access to hitherto 'sensitive' material and to years of dogged research by Len Sellers, the remarkable, but somehow pathetic, stories of the eleven foreign agents who were caught and subsequently shot in the Tower for espionage can now be told. In these days when a mind-boggling array of equipment is available for the assimilation and transmission of supposedly secret information their antics strike one as little short of farcical, but for their efforts, inspired, it seems, more often by greed than patriotism, these men paid the ultimate price and paid it in the most historic site in Britain. Whether they deserved their fate, or indeed the niche in history which this book gives them, is for the reader to decide. What cannot be denied is that their collected histories make remarkable reading.