The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria
If you like book The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonThe Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria similar books
-
Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented m…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Sons and Lovers
"She was a brazen hussy."
Buy this book on Amazon
"She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?"
"I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for y… -
The Promise
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger gene…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families of England fought to…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives, she has inspired books, documentaries and films, and is the subject of intense debate even today, al…
Buy this book on Amazon -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocida…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.
Buy this book on Amazon
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxu… -
-
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
Buy this book on Amazon
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biograph… -
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.
Buy this book on Amazon
The story… -
The Magic Mountain
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exh…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
Buy this book on Amazon
At a… -
Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history.
Buy this book on Amazon
She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognized as an equal and a leader. For her audacit… -
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won - a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory
Buy this book on Amazon
In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon… -
La dame aux camélias
One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love affair with one of the mo…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Cat’s Eye
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces abo…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Henry V
Henry V is Shakespeare’s most famous “war play”; it includes the storied English victory over the French at Agincourt. Some of it glorifies war, especially the choruses and Henry’s speeches urging his…
Buy this book on Amazon