The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

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, Crécy, 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.

Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Built England, which was a #1 international bestseller and a New York Times bestseller, as well as Wars of the Roses, which chronicles the Plantagenets' fall and the Tudors' unlikely ascent, Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty, and Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution. He starred alongside George R.R. Martin in the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles, which he wrote and presented. Martin appears in the HBO documentary that delves into the true origins of Game of Thrones. Knightfall, an A&E drama about the Templars, used him as a historical adviser.

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ISBN 13	9780143124924
ISBN 10	0143124927
Titel	The Plantagenets
Autor	Dan Jones
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-03-25
Seitenanzahl	560
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