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. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls.

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. In this history, Jones resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. Dan Jones completes his epic history of medieval England with a new book about the the Wars of the Roses - and describes how the Plantagenets, tore themselves apart and were finally replaced by the Tudors. Buy a discounted Paperback of The Hollow Crown online from. Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queen Who Made England, a 1 international bestseller and a New York Times bestseller Wars of the Roses, which charts the story of the fall of the Plantagenets and the improbable rise of the Tudors Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty and Summer of Blood: Englands First Revolution.

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. The Wars of the Roses The author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflixs Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events. Booktopia has The Hollow Crown, The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones.

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