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Benton Rain Patterson, Author . Cooper Square $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8154-1165-9
The most famous year in English history, 1066 witnessed the epic confrontation between William, Duke of Normandy, and King Harold, who, killed by the invading Normans during the Battle of Hastings, would be the last Anglo-Saxon ruler of England. An...
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Benton Rain Patterson, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-34844-1
He was the dour Catholic despot bent on stamping out the Reformation; she was the plucky ruler of Europe's leading Protestant power. He was the widower who proposed marriage to his sister-in-law; she was the coy virgin queen who kept him off-bala
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Benton Rain Patterson, Author Taylor Trade Publishing $24.95 (359p) ISBN 978-1-58979-021-6
In this engaging military history of the American Revolution, journalist Patterson (Harold and William) covers all the major campaigns and battles of the conflict, from the American siege of Boston in 1775 to the climactic surrender of Yorktown in...
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