What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada A new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, this book presents a new Richard, no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively...

True-life story of physicist Richard Feynman, who, as a young man fell madly in love with a beautiful young woman, Arline Greenbaum with whom he shared a very special bond. In 1941, when the United States plunged into World War II, Feynman was recruited to work at Los Alamos on the top-secret government project that was to develop the first atomic bomb--a job he accepted, in part, because it allowed him to resolve the crisis that he and Arline would...

Richard II, who ascended to the throne as a young man, is a regal and stately figure, but he is wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choice of counselors, and detached from his country and its common people. -- from Sparknotes.

""A rip-roaring tale. full of twists and turns...A fast-moving, thoroughly enjoyable yarn." --Kirkus Reviews on King's Man Robert, Earl of Locksley, returns in the latest in Angus Donald's compelling historical novels, reimagining one of the most indelible figures in folklore--Robin Hood. King Richard I, the Lionheart, is engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of Normandy. Using the brutal tactics of medieval warfare--siege, savagery and...

A retelling of the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade.

Believed to have been written in 1591, William Shakespeare's "Richard III" is one of the bards first plays, the first installment in a tetralogy of plays which includes "Henry IV, Part I," "Henry IV, Part II," and "Henry V." One of the longest of Shakespeare's plays and consequently rarely performed unabridged, "Richard III" is the story of the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. The play begins with...

Expertly evoking the mysteries of the medieval world, acclaimed author Candace Robb introduces a new series starring Kate Clifford, a woman forged on the warring borderlands of fourteenth century England.

Allie, the daughter of Adelia Aguilar and a skilled healer with her mother's knowledge of anatomy and sleuthing, is dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely. There her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls

Returning to her cell near Hawkenlye Abbey to help the needy, early thirteenth century abbess Helewise compromises her relationship with Sir Josse D'Acquin, who investigates the ritual murders of three men at the same time his son becomes involved in thecauses of the doomed Cathars.