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 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 DVD for Game of Thrones to discuss its historical antecedents. He is also the author of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty and Summer of Blood: England’s First Revolution and is working on a history of the Knights Templar due out in September 2017.
Praise for The Wars of the Roses
“Exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history. There are battles
fought in snowstorms, beheadings, jousts, clandestine marriages,
spurious genealogies, flashes of chivalry and streaks of pure
malevolence. . . .Jones’s material is thrilling, but it is quite a
task to sift, select, structure, and contextualize the information.
There is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of
the grand narrative; it is a supremely skillful piece of
storytelling.”
—The Sunday Telegraph
“Jones’s greatest skill as a historical writer is to somehow render
sprawling, messy epochs such as this one into manageable, easily
digestible matter; he is keenly tuned to what should be served up
and what should be omitted. And he still finds rooms for the
telling anecdote and vivid descriptive passage. It makes for an
engrossing read and a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the
Lancastrian-Yorkist struggle.”
—The Spectator
“If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones or The Tudors then Dan Jones’
swashbucklingly entertaining slice of medieval history will be
right up your alley… Every bit as entertaining and readable as his
previous blockbuster The Plantagenets.”
– Daily Express
“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
“Jones tells a good story. That is a good thing, since storytelling
has gone out of favor among so many historians. . . He admits
that the era is at times incomprehensible, yet he manages to impose
upon it sufficient order to render this book both edifying and
utterly entertaining. His delightful wit is as ferocious as the
dreadful violence he describes.”
—The Times (London)
“A fine new history . . . Tautly structured, elegantly written, and
finely attuned to the values and sensibilities of the age, The Wars
of the Roses is probably the best introduction to the conflict
currently in print.”
—The Mail on Sunday
“It’s not often that a book manages to be both scholarly and a
page-turner, but 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
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