THE AWFUL END OF PRINCE WILLIAM THE SILENT: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun

Jardine

ISBN 10: 0007192584 / ISBN 13: 9780007192588

Published by Harper Perennial, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE AWFUL END OF PRINCE WILLIAM THE SILENT: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007192584
• ISBN 13: 9780007192588
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 130 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A brilliantly detailed and gripping account of the assassination in 1584 of Prince William of Orange, and the shockwaves it sent through an age.

About the Author

Lisa Jardine CBE is Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. She writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for the 'Washington Post', and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She is a regular writer and presenter of 'A Point of View', on BBC Radio 4. She judged many important literary prizes including the 2000 Orwell Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize. She is the author of a number of best-selling general books, including 'Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance', 'Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution', and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Lisa Jardine is married to the architect John Hare and has three children.