Елизабет, кралицата
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789543651160
Publish date: December 2012
Publisher: Еднорог
Pages no: 776
Edition language: Bulgarian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
20th Century,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
European History
bookshelves: autumn-2015, published-2012, tbr-busting-2015, biography, e-book, nonfiction, skim-through, next Read from July 19, 2014 to September 06, 2015 Description: From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of un...
I liked it.
I would actually give this book 3 1/2 stars. I received an Advance Reader's Edition before publication. Thanks to Random House for sending the book to me.This history of Queen Elizabeth II is detailed; sometimes too detailed. I did not need to read for the 50th time that she greeted each guest wi...
Just awful, if an author is going to propose a biography of a well known figure, at least have the courage to acknowledge a bias or predisposition to a certain viewpoint. This so-called biography is laughable. Yes she had access to "never before seen documents", but shouldn't we have heard some of t...
It's amazing to me to see the same basic idea done by two very different authors and how they turn out. Take this book and The Royals written by Kitty Kelley. The latter reads a bit like a page from ONTD on the subject of the Windors: lies, damn lies and a sprinkling of the truth scattered around li...