The UK's bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life
the astonishing rise of Henry V, who survived rebellion, a near-fatal
arrow wound and a lengthy and precarious princely apprenticeship to
become England's greatest warrior king.
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and
died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late
Middle Ages and beyond.
The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors.
Shakespeare's version of Henry V saw his youthful folly redirected to
sober statesmanship, and in the dark days of World War II, Henry's
victories in France were recounted in British propaganda. Churchill
called Henry 'a gleam of splendour in the dark, troubled story of
medieval England', while for one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite
simply, 'the greatest man who ever ruled England'.
For Dan Jones, Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all
medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a
hardened, sometimes brutal, warrior, yet he was also creative and
artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many
mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family members, yet always
seemed to triumph when it mattered.
As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down
rebellions and secured England's borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made
England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in
northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity
at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.
Dan Jones's life of Henry V provides unprecedented insight into the
critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both a
standalone biography and a completion of Dan's sequence of English
medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow
Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England's greatest
king from our best-selling medieval historian.
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