Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

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Книга Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever Книги Исторические Автор: Colin Evans Год издания: 2002 Формат: pdf Издат.:Wiley Страниц: 256 Размер: 1,3 Mb ISBN: 0471225886 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Praise for Great Feuds in History "Everyone loves a good fight, especially on the world stage, and Evans calls these contests with skill and flair."–– Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Evans captures all the drama and controversy in these streamlined accounts brimming with invigorated, well-paced prose."–– Publishers Weekly In Great Feuds in History, Colin Evans puts us in the middle of ten of history’s most significant struggles–high-stakes personal conflicts that had a lasting impact on the societies around them and on generations that followed. Spanning five hundred years of political rivalry, spiritual conflict, and ancestral discord, here are ten fascinating true tales of ambition, greed, jealousy, passion, and fear that are as gripping and meaningful today as they were in their own turbulent times. Queen Elizabeth I versus Mary, Queen of Scots English parliament versus King Charles IAaron Burr versus Alexander HamiltonThe Hatfields versus the McCoysJoseph Stalin versus Leon TrotskyRoald Amundsen versus Robert ScottThe Duchess of Windsor versus the Queen MotherBernard Law Montgomery versus George Patton Lyndon B. Johnson versus Robert F. KennedyJ. Edgar Hoover versus Martin Luther King Jr.