Michael Jones

A lively and authoritative reinterpretation of the Battle of Bosworth Field, where the Wars of the Roses ended and the Tudor dynasty began. On August 22, 1485, at Bosworth Field, Richard III fell, the Wars of the Roses ended, and the Tudor dynasty began. The clash is so significant because it marks the break between medieval and modern; yet how much do we really know about this historical landmark? Michael Jones uses archival discoveries to show that Richard III's defeat was by no means inevitable and was achieved only through extraordinary chance. He relocates the battle away from the site recognized for more than 500 years. With startling detail of Henry Tudor's reliance on French mercenaries, plus a new account of the battle itself, the author turns Shakespeare on its head, painting an entirely fresh picture of the dramatic life and death of Richard III, England's most infamous monarch.

The real life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch.

In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years. Michael Jones, co-author of The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III, rewrites this landmark event in English history. He shifts our perspective of its heroes and villains and puts Richard firmly back into the context of his family and his times.

The fascinating companion volume to the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's bestselling Cousins' War series

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty. In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses original documents, archaeology, and histories of myth and witchcraft to create the first-ever biography of the young duchess who survived two reigns and two wars to become the first lady at two rival courts. David Baldwin, established authority on the Wars of the Roses, tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the first commoner to marry a king of England for love. And Michael Jones, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, writes of Margaret Beaufort, the almost-unknown matriarch of the House of Tudor. Beautifully illustrated throughout with rare portraits and source materials, The Women of the Cousins' War offers fascinating insights into the inspirations behind Philippa Gregory's fiction and will appeal to all with an interest in this epic period.

The accuracy with which clinicians can locate nerves and blood vessels has increased greatly with the development of portable handheld ultrasound scanners, and no specialty has felt the benefit more than anesthesia. This practical atlas of ultrasound anatomy addresses the two main challenges for anyone learning ultrasound-guided techniques: 1. Where do I place the probe? 2. What exactly am I looking at? Each nerve block or vascular access site is illustrated with: • An anatomical line illustration • A clinical photograph showing the correct ultrasound probe position • The ultrasound scan • A line illustration of the scan labelled to indicate the salient anatomical features All relevant anatomic regions are included: upper limb, lower limb, neck, thorax and abdomen. Concise notes for each entry indicate scan landmarks and give useful tips and advice on potential complications. Sonoanatomy for Anesthetists is an essential resource for anesthetists, intensivists and chronic pain specialists.

In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total War follows the fortunes of these fighters as they liberated Russia and the Ukraine from the Nazi invader and fought their way into the heart of the Reich. It reveals the horrors they experienced - the Holocaust, genocide and the mass murder of Soviet POWs - and shows the Red Army, brutalized by war, taking its terrible revenge on the German civilian population. For the first time Russian veterans are candid about the terrible atrocities their own army committed. But they also describe their struggle to raise themselves from the abyss of hatred. Their war against the Nazis - which in large part brought the Second World War in Europe to an end - is a tarnished but deeply moving story of sacrifice and redemption.

I 1941 omringet Hitlers armeer Leningrad. Det var starten på en av historiens mest gruoppvekkende beleiringer. Tyskerne førte en bevisst politikk for å utslette Leningrads befolkning gjennom sultedød. Ved hjelp av øyenvitneskildringer som nylig er blitt tilgjengelige, viser Michael Jones oss Leningrad i alle byens dimensjoner gjennom hungersnøden. Han omtaler tabuer som plyndring, vanstyre, kriminelle bander og kannibalisme, men også menneskenes ukuelige vilje til å overleve og til å trøste og hjelpe hverandre. Da den 900 dager lange beleiringen endelig ble avsluttet i 1944, var over en million mennesker døde. De som overlevde, var for alltid merket av det de hadde gjennomgått Michael Jones har doktorgraden i historie fra Bristol University og har undervist ved Glasgow University og Winchester College. Han er medlem av Royal Historical Society og arbeider nå som forfatter, historiekonsulent og programleder. Han har skrevet bøker om slagene ved Bosworth, Agincourt og Stalingrad, og i de siste fem årene har han ledet rundreiser gjennom slagmarkene på østfronten. Oversatt av Jorunn og Arne-Carsten Carlsen, MNO Om boken: «Sterk skildring av hendelser uten sidestykke fra en utsultet storby.» Terje Stemland, A-magasinet «(…) en sterk og rørende beretning om hvordan medmenneskeligheten i en befolkning kan overleve selv når den blir utfordret på det mest brutale.» Sindre Hovdenakk, VG «Nå kommer den fulle sannheten om en av tidenes skrekkhistorier.» Ulf Andenæs, Aftenposten «En av de største tragediene i menneskehetens historie skildret på en måte du knapt vil tro.» Johan O. Jensen, Adresseavisen «Et monument over moralsk mot og offervilje.» [terningkast seks] Egil Remi-Jensen, Fædrelandsvennen Venstre klaff: [som i den norske hardbacken: informasjon om forfatteren]

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern FrontAt the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherland, pushed back German forces steeled by the vision of the ubermensch, the iron-willed fighter. Many of Russia's 27 million military and civilian deaths occurred in this desperate struggle.In THE RETREAT, Michael Jones, acclaimed author of LENINGRAD, draws upon a mass of new eye-witness testimony from both sides of the conflict to tell, with matchless vividness and comprehensiveness, of the crucial turning point of the Second World War - the moment when the armies of Hitler could go no further - and of the titanic and cruel struggle of two mighty empires.

«Jones leder ferden gjennom et moralsk og fysisk mareritt via erindringer fra noen få som hardnakket klamret seg til livet, og fra dagbøkene til mange som ikke klarte seg gjennom lidelsene. Det er en kraftfull fortelling om å synke ned i et kaos som ingen kunne forestille seg før de hadde opplevd det … Jones’ gripende beretning er en hyllest til den menneskelige motstandskraft og livsvilje.» Ian Bruce, The Herald I 1941 omringet Hitlers armeer Leningrad. Det var starten på en av historiens mest gruoppvekkende beleiringer. Tyskerne førte en bevisst politikk for å utslette Leningrads befolkning gjennom sultedød. Ved hjelp av øyenvitneskildringer som nylig er blitt tilgjengelige, viser Michael Jones oss Leningrad i alle byens dimensjoner gjennom hungersnøden. Han omtaler tabuer som plyndring, vanstyre, kriminelle bander og kannibalisme, men også menneskenes ukuelige vilje til å overleve og til å trøste og hjelpe hverandre. Da den 900 dager lange beleiringen endelig ble avsluttet i 1944, var over en million mennesker døde. De som overlevde, var for alltid merket av det de hadde gjennomgått Michael Jones har doktorgraden i historie fra Bristol University og har undervist ved Glasgow University og Winchester College. Han er medlem av Royal Historical Society og arbeider nå som forfatter, historiekonsulent og programleder. Han har skrevet bøker om slagene ved Bosworth, Agincourt og Stalingrad, og i de siste fem årene har han ledet rundreiser gjennom slagmarkene på østfronten.

When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate circumstances, Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboo truths, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism. But, for many ordinary citizens, Leningrad marked the triumph of the human spirit. They drew deeply on their inner resources to inspire, comfort and help one another. At the height of the siege an extraordinary live performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony profoundly strengthened the city's will to resist. When German troops heard it in their trenches one remarked: 'We began to understand we would never take Leningrad. Yet, Leningrad's self-defence came at a huge price. When the 900-day siege ended in 1944 almost a million people had died and those who survived would be permanently marked by what they had endured, as this superbly insightful and moving history shows.

"Second-Hand Stories: 15 Portraits of Louisville" is a compilation of articles by award-winning journalist Michael L. Jones. The book includes profiles of the indie band Rachel's, former James Brown trumpeter Richard "Kush" Griffith, sculptor Ed Hamilton, painter Bob Thompson, the seminal indie rock club Tewligan's and the history of Louisville Jug Bands.

"As an accomplished musician and composer, Michael Jones brings a unique sensibility to the subject of leadership. While other writers address style, process ands leadership issues, Michael illuminates the deep parallels between leadership and the creative process." Peter M Senge author of The 5th Discipline Founding Chair, SoL (The Society for Organizational Learning) Senior Lecturer, and MIT Sloan School of Management. In the future we need to envision a new leadership story - one that involves a transformation in awareness from performance to presence, from uniformity to uniqueness, from abstraction to beauty, from efficiency to improvisation and from instrumentality to the expressive power of story and voice. Together they awaken a commons of the imagination - a collective field of possibility that transforms our mechanistic view of the world to a more sustainable and transcendent vision that is creative, organic and whole. The primary purpose of Artful Leadership is to explore these fundamental shifts in awareness in the context of cultivating a mind that is more subtle, refined, undefinable, and free flowing - a mind that can perceive underlying patterns of meaning and therefore offer a portal for creating new understandings in an interconnected world. Michael Jones explores this journey of awakening in the form of a series of conversations with John, a successful senior leader who is searching for greater meaning and purpose in his work. As the conversation unfolds it becomes clear that this journey cannot be achieved alone. Instead leaders will need to come together to reclaim the commons - a space of wholeness and possibility in the personal and public imagination - in order to explore the less tangible dimensions of leadership as preparation for engaging a more complex and changeable world. In this original and thought - provoking book, Michael Jones foresees a renaissance in leadership practice, one based upon mindful attention, authentic inquiry, an aliveness to the artistic creation and an abundant curiosity for exploring whatever is fresh and new.