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Title: Human history -- entertaining and informative
Review: This book takes a rather casual tack with history -- putting likely thoughts into historical personage's minds -- but detailed and exacting footnotes reassure the reader that there is some scholarship to be had here. This book covers the history of the Tudor family from 1536 to 1558, from the death of Catherine of Aragon and the execution of Anne Bolyen to the ascention of her daughter Elizabeth I to the throne.In those twenty-two years, England would have two kings, two queens, major shifts in religion and politics, five royal marriages, royal scandals beyond counting, births, deaths, literally hundreds of executions for heresy and treason, and in the middle of it all, a Princess fearing for her life, locked up in stone towers and seduced by a dashing rogue.And it's all true!(And what was so wrong with the Courtney information that one reviewer felt compelled to disclaim it twice?)
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