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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The Plantagenets The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England Author:Dan Jones The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain?s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones? (The Literary Review) — A stunning achievement that brings one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods of British history to life, The Plantagenets transports readers to the era of chivalry and the Crusades, the Black De... more »ath and the Hundred Years War. The first Plantagenet king inherited a broken, bloodsoaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that would stretch at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. His descendants and their fiery queens, including Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Edward II, and King John, shaped England into the country we recognize today and gave it many of the laws, contracts, and bodies of governance—like Parliament and the Magna Carta—that would shape our own nation.
The Plantagenets will appeal to fans of Game of Thrones, as well as to anyone who has curled up with a history of Henry VIII or Queen Elizabeth and marveled at the cunning, the treachery, and the seductiveness of England?s most illustrious monarchs.« less
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