The Poisoned Crown: Hitler - Elizabeth I - Cromwell - Napoleon - Lincoln

"...the social levellers set out into the country, and started digging on the hills near Cobham. Having had a number of them arrested and brought before him, Cromwell asked their leader, Everard, to explain his intentions. The liberties of the people, Everard replied, had been lost ever since William the Conqueror came to England. Like other Saxons, he was of Jewish origin, and now was the time of deliverance for the People of God." "...Stanton and Harding would not eat at the same table with Lincoln,... The motives of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, who was killed by the men Stanton sent after him, have remained obscure." Binding Strip and Front Board ......Page 1 Half-title ......Page 2 By the Same Author ......Page 3 Title Page ......Page 4 Printer's Imprint ......Page 5 CONTENTS ......Page 6 Acknowlegements ......Page 7 The Genealogy of Hitler ......Page 8 Plate 1. Jean Jacques Rousseau ......Page 10 Plate 2. Napoleon ......Page 11 Plate 3. Byron, 1813-14 ......Page 12 Plate 4. Heine, 1827 ......Page 13 Plate 5. Honore' de Balzac ......Page 18 Plate 6. Dostoievsky ......Page 19 Plate 7. Nietzsche on his deathbed ......Page 24 Plate 8. H. G. Wells ......Page 25 Plate 9. Charles Chaplin in The Gold Rush ......Page 30 Plate 10. Adolf Hitler ......Page 31 Elizabeth I ......Page 33 Plate 11. The "Pelican Portrait" of Queen Elizabeth ......Page 52 Plate 12. The Death Mask of Queen Elizabeth ......Page 53 Cromwell ......Page 68 Napoleon ......Page 118 Lincoln ......Page 139 Plate 13. Mask of Oliver Cromwell ......Page 142 Plate 14. Abraham Lincoln, 1860 ......Page 143 Plate 15. Mrs. Lincoln ......Page 170 Plate 16. Abraham Lincoln, 1863 ......Page 171 Tail-piece ......Page 181