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Henry V

The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
464 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Tradeerschienen am12.09.2024
A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' ObserverHENRY V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. In the dark days of World War II, Henry's victories in France were presented by British filmmakers as exemplars for a people existentially threatened by Nazism.For Dan Jones, Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened warrior, but also bookish and artistic; a leader who made many mistakes, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin and made England a serious player once more, yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.Written with vivid, page-turning immediacy, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian.mehr
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KlappentextA brand-new life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' ObserverHENRY V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. In the dark days of World War II, Henry's victories in France were presented by British filmmakers as exemplars for a people existentially threatened by Nazism.For Dan Jones, Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened warrior, but also bookish and artistic; a leader who made many mistakes, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin and made England a serious player once more, yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.Written with vivid, page-turning immediacy, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-0359-1081-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum12.09.2024
Seiten464 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht586 g
Illustrationen2x8pp col plates
Artikel-Nr.61323555
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Kritik
Wildly gripping, swashbuckling, battle-scarred and blood-spattered, in equal parts ferocious, dynamic and political, intimate and humane, the best biography yet of England's greatest king. Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanitymehr

Autor

Dan Jones is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of many non-fiction books, including The Plantagenets, The Templars and Powers and Thrones. He is a renowned writer, broadcaster and journalist. He has presented dozens of TV shows, including the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles, and writes and hosts the podcast This is History. His debut novel, Essex Dogs, is the first in a series following the fortunes of ordinary soldiers in the early years of the Hundred Years' War. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.