The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain's greatest and worst dynasty--"a real-life Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England's best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Cr?cy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years' War, when England's national identity was forged by the sword.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0143124927
ISBN13:9780143124924
Release Date:March 2014
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:560 Pages
Weight:1.07 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Incredibly Engaging
Published by Robert , 3 years ago
Dan Jones makes the Plantagenets come to life as he weaves through their years as the rulers of England. You get crusades, rebellions, secret plots - what else could you need? The book doesn’t go in to too much depth on any one event, but it does as much as can be done in 500 pages.
Sucked me right in
Published by Devon185 , 5 years ago
Just got the book and already half way through....its gives you an account of each person from the beginning starting with geoffrey plantagenet....glad i purchased im so hooked on english/british history..and this is a good piece of it
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