Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London - Hardcover

Jones, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312622961 ISBN 13: 9780312622961

Verlag: St Martins Pr, 2012

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Book by Jones Nigel

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A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it

Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the UK: The Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.

Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national—and international—events. In a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs, he captures the Tower in its many changing moods and its many diverse functions. Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of london not just as an ancient structure, but as a living symbol of the nation of Great Britain.

Biografía del autor:

NIGEL JONES is a historian, journalist, and biographer, covering subjects ranging from Nazi Germany to the lives of British writers. He has written for the Cambridge Evening News, the Press Association News Agency, and has been an editor on BBC and independent radio, as well as for History Today and BBC History magazines.

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• Verlag: St Martins Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0312622961
• ISBN 13: 9780312622961
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456