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The Plantagenets - The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Paperback)
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The Plantagenets - The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Paperback)
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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, 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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