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  • THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
    ANTHONY D. WRIGHT
    Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was fuelled primarily by a desire within the Church to reform its medieval legacy and to re-enthuse its institutions with a sense of religious zeal. In many ways, both the Protestant and...

    $1,240.00

  • THE DIVISIONS OF FRENCH CATHOLICISM, 1629-1645
    ANTHONY D. WRIGHT
    For much of the sixteenth-century, France was wracked with religious strife, as the Wars of Religion pitted Catholic against Protestant. Whilst the conversion of Henri IV to Catholicism ended much of the conflict, the ensuing peace highlighted the fractious nature of French Catholicism and the many competing threads that ran through it. This book investigates the gradual divisi...

    $1,140.00

  • VALIANT BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / ANTHONY WRIGHT
    A fascinating collection of personal accounts of operating Britain's first V bomber by aircrew and ground crew. Valiant Boys tells the story from the aircraft's birth, taking off from Vickers' tiny airfield at Wisley near Brooklands, to its premature death from fatigue. There are tales of testing atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the middle of the ...

    $229.00

  • V FORCE BOYS
    TONY BLACKMAN / ANTHONY WRIGHT
    The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other two and went into service in 1955. The Vulcan entered service in 1956 and the Victor a year later. The Valiant finished opera...

    $306.67