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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Hardcover – October 14, 2014
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“It’s not often that a book manages to be both scholarly and a page-turner, but British historian Jones succeeds on both counts in this entertaining follow-up to his bestselling The Plantagenets. . . . He sets a new high-water mark in the current revisionism of the Tudor era.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Jones authoritatively sets the scene for the 15th-century succession crises . . . valiantly pared down for fluid readability.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“It’s not often that a book manages to be both scholarly and a page-turner, but British historian Jones succeeds on both counts in this entertaining follow-up to his bestselling The Plantagenets. . . . He sets a new high-water mark in the current revisionism of the Tudor era.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Jones authoritatively sets the scene for the 15th-century succession crises . . . valiantly pared down for fluid readability.”
—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Dan Jones is an award-winning historian of the Middle Ages. His four-part television series based on The Plantagenets is currently in production and will be broadcast in 2015. He lives in London.
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Dan Jones is a historian and an award-winning journalist. His first book, Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, was published in 2009 and was an Independent book of the year. His second book, published in the UK as The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England, and in the USA as The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings And Queens Who Made England, was a #1 bestseller and a book of the year in the Observer, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph.
Dan studied history at Cambridge University, where he was taught by David Starkey and Helen Castor. He graduated with a First in 2002. As a journalist he writes a regular column for the London Evening Standard and is also published widely on both sides of the Atlantic, in the Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Literary Review, GQ, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal.
He lives in London with his wife and daughters.
Dan studied history at Cambridge University, where he was taught by David Starkey and Helen Castor. He graduated with a First in 2002. As a journalist he writes a regular column for the London Evening Standard and is also published widely on both sides of the Atlantic, in the Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Literary Review, GQ, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal.
He lives in London with his wife and daughters.
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Elspeth G. Perkin
on October 14, 2014
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This is a title that is labeled as non-fiction and a valuable reference but can read at times as a brilliant historical novel. Mr. Jones has presented his audience with a "sequel" to the Plantagenets and moved focus to another branch of the illustrious family tree- The Tudors. But before we long time armchair enthusiasts of the past or those just finding an interest in 15th to 16th century English and French history can understand the rise of the Tudors and the significance of the bloody events that brought a name from obscurity into infamy Mr. Jones first wants the reader to understand the fall of the direct Plantagenet line and centers this non-fiction work more on building against the notion that the Wars of the Roses was a straightforward network of wars and battles concerning The White Rose (for the house of York) and the Red Rose (for the house of Lancaster).
Current trends of modernized and amplified history and the slew of fiction titles appearing on the heels of the recent discovery of the remains of Richard III will have the unfamiliar learner believing that The Wars of the Roses was a dramatic series of wars that simply entailed a family's power struggle for the crown of England. Not so and Mr. Jones makes this clear in the introductory that there is so much more to the events that led to and the maelstrom of blood soaked timelines that created this ultimate political instability of the Kingdoms of England and France during the 15th and 16th centuries. Through an entertaining, neutral standing, and very reader friendly style the author invites the curious to examine each detailed affair and the names from this time period and explains their intentional or unfortunate entanglement in the years that tore England and France asunder with an unstable hand on the wheel of fate.Read more ›
Current trends of modernized and amplified history and the slew of fiction titles appearing on the heels of the recent discovery of the remains of Richard III will have the unfamiliar learner believing that The Wars of the Roses was a dramatic series of wars that simply entailed a family's power struggle for the crown of England. Not so and Mr. Jones makes this clear in the introductory that there is so much more to the events that led to and the maelstrom of blood soaked timelines that created this ultimate political instability of the Kingdoms of England and France during the 15th and 16th centuries. Through an entertaining, neutral standing, and very reader friendly style the author invites the curious to examine each detailed affair and the names from this time period and explains their intentional or unfortunate entanglement in the years that tore England and France asunder with an unstable hand on the wheel of fate.Read more ›
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