| LC control no. | n 50001404 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Seward, Desmond, 1935-2022 |
| Other standard no. | Q5264795 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Associated place | Berkshire (England) Wiltshire (England) |
| Birth date | 1935-05-22 |
| Death date | 2022-04-03 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | History Middle Ages Bonaparte family Biography |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Authors |
| Found in | The first Bourbon: Henri IV ... 1971. The dancing sun, 1993: t.p. (Desmond Seward) dust jkt. (b. in Paris, educated at Ampleforth and Cambridge) Wikipedia, 19 Jan. 2024 (Desmond Seward; Desmond Eric Christopher Seward (born 22 May 1935 in Paris, died 3 Apr. 2022 aged 86) was an Anglo-Irish popular historian and the author of many books, including biographies of Henry IV of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Marie Antoinette, Empress Eugénie and Napoleon's Family; he specialized in Britain and France in the late Middle Ages; he lived in the English countryside on the Berkshire-Wiltshire border) Author's website, viewed December 28, 2023: About Desmond Seward page (Desmond Seward (22 May 1935-3 April 2022) was one of Britain's best known popular historians. He wrote professionally for over fifty years and was the author of over thirty books of history and travel that range from a study of the Hundred Years' War to a comparative biography of Napoleon and Hitler. Many have been translated, into twelves languages, including seven into Mandarin) <https://www.desmondseward.com/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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