Jasper Ridley

This book separates myth from truth and describes the development of the society from its origins amongst the masons working upon the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages.

A Brief History of the Freemasons

la sociedad secreta más poderosa de la tierra

Los masones

En esta interesante y esclarecedora historia de la masonería, Jasper Ridley se remonta a la Edad Media y a las corporaciones de los constructores de catedrales, quienes, celosos de guardar el secreto de la edificación de tales monumentos, se reunían en logias donde los maestros albañiles (en francés maçons) discutían sus métodos de trabajo. Ridley evoca la formación de la Gran Logia londinense, cuando la llamada «masonería especulativa» redacta el reglamento de la asociación y define el proceso de elección del Gran Maestre; describe el papel que desempeñó la masonería en la Revolución francesa y en la formación de Estados Unidos, y traza su expansión por Rusia y América Latina hasta nuestros días. Una obra amena y bien documentada que arroja nueva luz sobre esta fascinante hermandad.

Elizabeth I

The History of England

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades. He was also an extremely able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen—including Winston Churchill and influential persons in the United States. This biography describes Mussolini's childhood; his education (including his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives); his World War I experiences and severe wounding; his involvement in, and eventual expulsion from the revolutionary Italian Socialist Party; his numerous love affairs, his early career as a journalist and his rise to power and brutal rule.

A Biography

Mussolini

“Captures the organization's fundamental outlook, and its morality. . . . Ridley is an enchanting storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal

A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society

The Freemasons

Mary was crowned queen in 1553. In the space of just five years, her brutal methods earned her the macabre nickname she has carried ever since. Men such as Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, were burned at the stake, as were some 300 others who refused to renounce their Protestantism and accept Papal supremacy. This lucid and expert account sheds light on a dreadful episode in English history.

The Story of England's Terror

Bloody Mary's Martyrs

This work offers a fresh look at the character and political cunning of his much-discussed, notorious, and fascinating subject. Henry, a man of fundamentally conservative views and narrowly selfish aims, was led, almost against his will and mainly by events, to introduce the Reformation in England and revolutionize the structure of English government and society.

Henry VIII

'The Tudor age' is worthwhile for its fascinating descriptions of daily life and anecdotes about the era's famous figures. It will be an informative and attractive addition to public library shelves.

The Tudor Age

From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and the country, costumes, furniture and food, travel, medicine, sports and pastimes, grand tournaments and the great flowering of English drama, juxtaposed with the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, and the misery of the Plague.

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