Michael Farquhar

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

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Books by Michael Farquhar

Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain (2011)

language

English

3.6 of 5 Votes: 4

review 1: 1 ½ starsThe cover leads you believe that this will be a fun, humorous book. Another case of false advertising… IT IS NOT. It is pretty much straight history, and it reads like Cliff’s Notes. I think this book would be rather confusing to the neophyte. It bounces around a bit,...

Secretele monarhilor. Cinci secole de sex, aventură, viciu, trădare şi nebunie in monarhia britanică (2012)

language

English

3.6 of 5 Votes: 4

review 1: Acutually a good book for a history book. You get a lot of dirt on the Royality! Which was pretty hilarious. They book was well-written. The middle of the book got dry for me, and since many of the Royals have similar names, sometimes I had to go back and look to remind mysel...

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia (2014)

language

English

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

review 1: This book was mainly helpful to me in painting a timeline of when the various tsars and tsarinas ruled. I have read quite a bit about them individually, but this books gave a good timeline of their reigns and also helped me piece together the complex family trees (is it too much ...

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