Showing 1-10 of approximately 357 books results for "Blenheim" .
Author: Robin Paige
ISBN: 0425202372
Recommended Retail Price: $7.99
Kate Sheridan is at Blenheim Palace to research King Henry's mistress Rosamund, said to have been poisoned there by Eleanor of Aquitaine. But her visit takes a strange turn when her hosts unwittingly begin to relive the legend.
Author: Henrietta Spencer-Churchill
ISBN: 0847827402
Recommended Retail Price: $50.00
Every history buff wishes that walls could talk. In this first book ever written about Blenheim and the Churchills by a family member, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill explores the relationship between one of history's most important families and its ancestral home. As though perusing a family album, she conveys the ...
Author: Charles Spencer
ISBN: 047171996X
Recommended Retail Price: $35.00
A compelling history of the bloody battle that ended Louis XIV's dream of European domination and changed the course of history
"Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability."<...
Author: Iain Gale
ISBN: 0007201079
Author: Charles Spencer
ISBN: 0304367044
Recommended Retail Price: $14.95
By the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene o...
Author: Tim Pears
ISBN: 0747586950
Ezra and Sheena Pepin live in Blenheim Orchard in North Oxford with their three children: fourteen-year-old Blaise, entering the storm-world of adolescence, Hector, eleven and precociously clever, and sweet Louie, three years old and the family tyrant. Ezra, a benignly disaffected employee at Isis Water, has abandoned ...
Author: John Tincey
ISBN: 1841767719
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
Combining one of history’s most audacious strategic manoeuvres with perhaps the greatest military victory ever won by a British commander, the Blenheim campaign is rightly considered the pinnacle of the career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. On 13 August 1704, Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy faced a Fran...
Blenheim: Biography of a Palace
Author: Marian Fowler
ISBN: 0140106170
Recommended Retail Price: $14.95
This is a history of a great English house, from its conception and building in the opening decade of the 18th century, to the burial of Winston Churchill in the early 1960s. Using the vast Blenheim papers (now in the British Library), together with local Oxfordshire documents and archives, the author has been able to ...
Author: Ron Mackay
ISBN: 0897472098
Recommended Retail Price: $12.95
New cover art! The Bristol Blenheim opened WW II for RAF, flying the first operational sortie of a British bomber in WW II. Used in every theater where the British fought, the Blenheim saw action over Europe, the North African deserts, and the jungles of Asia. Blenheim's were adapted to many roles not envisioned by its...
Author: Albert Champlin Mayham
ISBN: 110478307X
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
A History Of The Struggle Between Landlord And Tenant Growing Out Of The Patroon System In The Eastern Part Of New York.