Description: The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain s greatest and worst dynasty a real-life Game of Thrones (The Wall Street Journal) From the author of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty 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 ning the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crecy, 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."
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EAN: 9780143124924
UPC: 9780143124924
ISBN: 9780143124924
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Book Title: Plantagenets : the Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Number of Pages: 560 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), Royalty, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Medieval
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Dan Jones
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
