Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition Thomas F. Madden For many, the Inquisition conjures Gothic images of cloaked figures and barbarous torture chambers. So enmeshed is this view of the Inquisition in popular culture that such scenes play out even in comedies such as Mel Brooks' History of the World and Monty Python's Flying Circus. But is this a fair portrayal?
Holy War, Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden By Peter Bergen | Read by the author 4 cds | 4.3 hrs | abridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | Nov 2001
Castle studies have been shaped and defined over the past half-century by the work of R. Allen Brown. His classic English Castles, renamed here to acknowledge its definitive approach to the subject, has never been superseded by other more recent studies, and is still the foundation study of the English, and Welsh, castles built between the Norman Conquest and the mid 1500s. As the subject evolved, so too did this book, and for the most recent edition a considerable amount of French comparative material was added, though it remains essentially a study of English castles.
Six Months that Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference
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The world will never see another peace conference like the one that took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world's major leaders, US President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and French Prime Minister George Clemenceau, met to discuss the peace settlements that would end World War I. These leaders faced huge issues, and as the weeks went by, their agenda grew.
