Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets:
The Warrior Kings and Queen Who Made England, a #1 international
bestseller and New York Times bestseller, and Wars
of the Roses, which charts the story of the fall of the
Plantagenet dynasty and the improbable rise of the Tudors. He
writes and presents the popular Netflix series Secrets of
Great British Castles and appeared alongside George R.R.
Martin in the official HBO film exploring the real history
behind Game of Thrones. He was closely involved in
the British Library’s landmark unification of the four remaining
original copies of the Magna Carta to mark the charter’s eight
hundredth anniversary. He is also the author of Summer of
Blood: England’s First
Revolution and is currently working on a
history of the Knights Templar due out in September 2017.
"Lively and excellent."
—The New York Times
"By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the
brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the
questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be
granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us
today."
—Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Napoleon
"Excellent and very well-crafted."
—The New York Review of Books
"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while
at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like
liberty and the seeds of representative government."
—Antonia Frasier
"Lively and clear-eyed."
—The London Review of Books
"An insightful, satisfying history of a beloved. . . icon of
freedom."
—Kirkus Reviews
Praise for The Wars of the Roses
"Tautly structured, elegantly written, and finely attuned to the
values and sensibilities of the age . . . The best introduction to
the conflict currently in print."
—The Mail On Sunday
“Jones is a born storyteller, peopling the terrifying uncertainties
of each moment with a superbly drawn cast of characters and
powerfully evoking the brutal realities of civil war. With gripping
urgency he shows this calamitous conflict unfold.”
—The Evening Standard
"Edifying and utterly entertaining. . . Jones tells a good story .
. . His delightful wit is as ferocious as the dreadful violence he
describes.
—The Times (London)
Praise for The Plantagenets
“A real life Game of Thrones, As dramatic and blood-soaked as
any work of fantasy. Like the medieval chroniclers he quarries for
juicy anecdotes, Jones has opted for a bold narrative approach
anchored firmly upon the personalities of the monarchs themselves
yet deftly marshaling a vast supporting cast of counts, dukes, and
bishops. . . . Fast-paced and accessible, The Plantagenets is
old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by
those who like their history red in tooth and claw. Jones tackles
his subject with obvious relish."
--The Wall Street Journal
“Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its
storytelling, this is narrative history at its best. A thrilling
dynastic history of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery, and
brutal warfare across two centuries of British history.”
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of Jerusalem: The
Biography
“Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows, revealing
them in all their epic heroism and depravity. His is an engaging
and readable account—itself an accomplishment given the gaps in
medieval sources and a 300-year tableau—and yet researched with the
exacting standards of an academician. The result is an enjoyable,
often harrowing journey through a bloody, insecure era in which
many of the underpinnings of English kingship and Anglo-American
constitutional thinking were formed."
—The Washington Post
“Some of the greatest stories in all of English history . . . rich
in pageantry and soaked in blood.”
—Lewis Lapham
“Delicious . . . Jones has produced a rollicking, compelling book
produced a rollicking, compelling book about a rollicking,
compelling dynasty, one that makes the Tudors who followed them a
century later look like ginger pussycats. . . . The Plantagenets is
told with the latest historical evidence and rich in detail and
scene-setting. You can almost smell the sea salt as the White Ship
sinks, and hear the screams of the tortured at the execution
grounds at Tyburn."
—USA Today
“Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval
pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with
confidence. This riveting history of an all-too-human ruling House
amply confirms the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.”
—Sunday Telegraph
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