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All The King's Women

DEREK WILSON

History

Hutchinson

East Africa Through a Thousand Years

Gideon S. Were

D. St. John-Parsons

World

Evans Brothers - Africa list

Dark and Light: The Story of the Guinness Family

Wilson, a respected Historian, offers a deeply researched history of 1 of Ireland's most legendary families. In this fascinating book Derek Wilson traces the Guiness Family from it's lowly beginnings into the Protestant ascendancy to the present day through 3 main narrative threads corresponding to different lines of the family; brewing, banking and missionary work.Wilson's account suggests that the path to success for the brewery was never assured, built as it was against a background of the Napoleonic wars, the establishment of the Irish free state and Civil war, and 2 further world wars. After some setbacks in the early 19th century Robert co-founded the Guiness Mahon banking dynasty in England. The Bank remained a family concern despite the 1929 crash and IRA kidnapping until the accidental death of John Guiness, and in 1988 the bank went under Yokohama control. The family was not without it's decorated heroes and it's professional soldiers, fighting in both world wars, the Boer war, and India. In many ways the branch of the family that went into missionary work is the most interesting, and includes 2 medical missionary brothers, 1 in China and the other 1st in the Belgian Congo where he spent much of his career campaigning against the Belgians cruelty, and then also in China during the Japanese invasion. This is not to say there weren't wastrels and eccentrics: there were, particularly in this century, and these Wilson describes with aplomb if not relish.

Dark and light: The story of the Guinness family

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Tower: The Tumultuous History of the Tower of London from 1078

Encore Editions

Two renowned historians, one Catholic and the other Protestant, explore the current worldwide resurgence of Christianity and suggest that it is a result of an ongoing cycle of ebb and flow stemming from the Protestant Reformation. 20,000 first printing.

REFORMATIONS: A Radical Interpretation of Christianity and the World, 1500-2000

Felipe, Fernandez-Armesto

Scribner

King And The Gentleman

Pimlico

Charles Stuart had a serious weakness - women. This popular history focuses on the powerful presence of his women in the Stuart Court

All the King's Women: Love, Sex and Politics in the Life of Charles II

Europe

Mystery featuring Tim Lacy, a security expert confronting crime and fraud in the international art world. Author's previous titles include 'The Camargue Brotherhood'.

The Borgia Chalice

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Headline

Rothschilds

Mandarin

Tracing the history of the Guinness family from its beginnings through the Protestant ascendancy to the present day. Wilson's account suggests that the success of the brewery was never assured as the family was often enmeshed in the Irish upheavals and the two world wars. The banking and missionary concerns of the family are also covered.

Dark and Light: Guinness Story

Orion mass market paperback

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