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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They didn't ask for permission. They took history by the throat.>In 1381, Wat Tyler led sixty thousand men on London and forced a teenage king to listen at swordpoint. Within days, Tyler was dead - and yet the fear he planted in the English ruling class never entirely left. In 1305, William Wallace was dragged through the streets of London in chains, tried for a treason he refused to acknowledge, and executed with a brutality designed to end Scottish resistance forever. It had the opposite effect. In 1605, Guy Fawkes crouched beneath the House of Lords with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder and a lit match. He failed. And yet five centuries later, his face is worn by protesters on every continent. In 1912, Emmeline Pankhurst smashed the windows of Downing Street, survived Holloway Prison, endured force-feeding, and kept going. In 1928, women won the vote. Pankhurst died eighteen days later - just long enough to see it.Inside this volume: - The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - the closest medieval England came to revolution- William Wallace's London execution and the myth it created- The Gunpowder Plot - what it actually was, and what it became- The Suffragettes' militant campaign and the long road to the voteLondon Legends Volume III is the third book in the series that brings the hidden, the dangerous, and the defiant back to the page - told with the pace of narrative non-fiction and the precision of history. Rebels. Revolutionaries. Legends.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - LONDON LEGENDS - VOLUME VMysteries & MurderSome cities bury their secrets. London keeps them alive.This volume is different from every other in the London Legends series. The rebels and revolutionaries, the builders and dreamers - they left behind statues, sewers, cathedrals, constitutions. The figures in this volume left behind something harder to handle: questions that have never been answered, cases that have never been closed, and victims who deserved far better than the legends that grew up around their deaths.Jack the Ripper murdered five women in Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888. Their names were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. This volume tells their stories - not just the killer's. Over a hundred named suspects. More than a century of investigation. No arrest. No answer. The case officially remains open.Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen poisoned his wife in a house in Camden in 1910, dismembered her body, and buried it beneath the cellar floor. He was caught by wireless telegraphy - the first criminal in history to be arrested that way - tried at the Old Bailey, and hanged at Pentonville. In 2007, forensic scientists re-examined the cellar remains and concluded they may not have been his wife's. The verdict has never been overturned. The doubt has never been resolved.The Blackout Ripper killed four women in four nights during the London blackout of February 1942. Gordon Cummins was caught within a week, tried within months, and hanged during an air raid. New research published in 2022 suggests he may have killed before those four nights. The full extent of the darkness he used may never be known.Three cases. Three kinds of mystery. One city that keeps its secrets longer than any of us live.Narrative history at its most vivid: dramatic, precise, human. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - LONDON LEGENDS - VOLUME IVBuilders & DreamersThey didn't ask for permission. They picked up the blueprints and got to work.London has been burned, bombed, and broken more times than any city deserves. What saved it - every time - was not luck or politics or money. It was the singular vision of people who looked at what was missing and decided, with complete seriousness, to build something that would outlast them.Christopher Wren watched medieval London burn to the ground in 1666. He spent the next thirty-five years rebuilding it in stone and light. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral still defines the skyline three centuries later.Isambard Kingdom Brunel drilled a tunnel beneath a navigable river, laid a railway across the spine of England, and launched ships so large the world wouldn't catch up for forty years. He was twenty-six when he started. He was dead at fifty-three. He left a country transformed.John Nash gave London its face. Regent Street. Regent's Park. The grand stucco terraces that made a city of merchants look, for the first time, like a capital of empire.Joseph Bazalgette saved London from itself. When the Thames had become an open sewer and cholera stalked every street, he built 82 miles of intercepting sewers beneath the city using 318 million bricks. The sewers still work today. Cholera never returned.Four builders. Four centuries. One relentless city.Narrative history at its most vivid: dramatic, precise, human.…