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Desmond Seward

Author of The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453

Includes the names: Desmond Seward, Desmond Seaward, Desmond Seaward, דזמונד סיוורד

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Works by Desmond Seward

The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 689 copies, 12 reviews
The Monks of War (Author) 552 copies, 7 reviews
The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the… 408 copies, 6 reviews
Richard III: England's Black Legend 240 copies, 6 reviews
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen 193 copies, 1 review
Henry V: The Scourge of God 123 copies, 1 review
The Last White Rose: The Secret Wars of the Tudors 120 copies, 1 review
The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty 102 copies, 1 review
Napoleon and Hitler 95 copies, 1 review
Prince of the Renaissance: Life of Francois I 86 copies, 2 reviews
Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea 82 copies, 2 reviews
Henry V as Warlord (Classic Military History) 58 copies, 1 review
Napoleon's Family 53 copies, 1 review
Eugenie: The Empress and Her Empire 51 copies

Caravaggio: A Passionate Life 33 copies

The Bourbon Kings of France 27 copies

Marie Antoinette 24 copies

Metternich: The First European 23 copies

Monks and Wine 22 copies

The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the… 18 copies

Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells 18 copies, 3 reviews

The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope 16 copies

Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (Armchair Traveller) 16 copies

The first Bourbon: Henri IV, King of France and Navarre 16 copies, 1 review

Naples: A Travellers' Companion (Travellers' Companion Series) 11 copies

Wings Over The Desert: In action with an RFC pilot in Palestine 1916-18 11 copies

The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites 8 copies

An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia (Haus Publishing - Armchair… 8 copies

Byzantium 7 copies

The Dancing Sun: Journeys to the Miracle Shrines 6 copies

Italy's Knights of St. George : the Constantinian order 6 copies

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