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Alfred Duggan's "Devil's Brood" is a rollicking historical lark that explores the diabolical nature of the Angevin family. Sired allegedly by demons, the family cluster of Henry Curtmantle, his wife Eleanor, and their sons Richard Lionheart, Henry III, Geoffrey, and John Lackland defined western Europe in the twelfth century. And Duggan takes great delight in showing how this dastardly bunch of ambitious power-seekers had a lot of fun doing so - even as they tried to tear each other apart.

There have been few historical imaginations better informed or more gifted than Alfred Duggan’s" (The New Criterion). Historian, archaeologist and novelist Alfred Leo Duggan wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about a wide range of subjects, in places and times as diverse as Julius Caesar’s Rome and the Medieval Europe of Thomas Becket.

Historian, archaeologist and novelist Alfred Leo Duggan wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about a wide range of subjects, in places and times as diverse as Julius Caesar’s Rome and the Medieval Europe of Thomas Becket. Although he was born in Argentina, Duggan grew up in Engl "There have been few historical imaginations better informed or more gifted than Alfred Duggan’s" (The New Criterion).

Alfred Duggan (1903–1964) was an English historian and archaeologist, and a bestselling historical novelist in the 1950s. Though brought up in Britain, he had been born Alfredo León Duggan in Lomas de Zamora Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of wealthy landowners of Irish descent

Alfred Duggan has captured the cultural climate of the times - the Silver Age of Greece - a world alive with new ideas from sculpture to philosophy, and new indomitable men, like Demetrius. Alfred Duggan ‘for those who love him, is a habit’ - Evelyn Waugh.

Alfred Duggan has captured the cultural climate of the times - the Silver Age of Greece - a world alive with new ideas from sculpture to philosophy, and new indomitable men, like Demetrius.

Devil's Brood is a historical novel written by Sharon Kay Penman, published in 2008, and is the third volume in her Plantagenet series, preceded by When Christ and His Saints Slept and Time and Chance, and followed by Lionheart (2011). The novel is about the last two decades in Henry II's life, his imprisonment of his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons who undertake a decade-long rebellion against their father.

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