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 | Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (1st Edition) by Stuart Carroll Hardcover, 345 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-922907-4 / 0199229074 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-922907-9 / 9780199229079 Hailed as "entertaining" and "nuanced" by The Economist, Martyrs and Murderers tells the story of three generations of treacherous, bloodthirsty power-brokers. One of the richest and most powerful families in sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise played a pivotal role in the history of Europe | |