Tower by Nigel Jones Md

Tower by Nigel Jones Md

A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it.

Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the UK: The Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.

Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national--and international--events. In a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs, he captures the Tower in its many changing moods and its many diverse functions.

Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of london not just as an ancient structure, but as a living symbol of the nation of Great Britain.

Nigel Jones began his journalistic career for the Cambridge Evening News. He worked on radio and television in London and Austria and has written for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. He is currently the Deputy Editor of BBC History Magazine and leads tours of the Western Front in the footsteps of the war poets. His previous works include the collaboration, Hitler Triumphant (Greenhill Books), The War Walk, a study of the Great War, Hitler's Heralds, on the roots of Nazi Germany, and a biography of the playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton, Through a Glass Darkly. He lives in Sussex with his partner and three children.

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ISBN 13	9781250038401
ISBN 10	1250038405
Title	Tower
Author	Nigel Jones Md
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Year published	2013-10-15
Number of pages	480
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