Medieval Europe
£11.99A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
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Henry V Penguin Monarchs
£10.99Anne Curry explores how Henry’s hyperactive efforts to expunge his past failures, and his experience of crisis – which threatened to ruin everything he had struggled to achieve – defined his kingship, and how his astonishing success at Agincourt transformed his standing in the eyes of his contemporaries, and of all generations to come.
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Genghis Khan
£25.00Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin’s rise from boyhood outcast to Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have lived.
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The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
£12.99The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. Dan Jones completes his epic history of medieval England with this book about the the Wars of the Roses – and describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart and were finally replaced by the Tudors.
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Henry Ii Penguin Monarchs
£10.99Through a series of astonishing dynastic coups, Henry II (1154-89) became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was brought down both by his catastrophic relationship with his archbishop Thomas Becket and his debilitating arguments with his sons, most importantly the future Richard I and King John. His empire may have ultimately collapsed, but in Richard Barber’s vivid and sympathetic account the reader can see why Henry II left such a compelling impression on his contemporaries.
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Plantagenets The Kings Who Made England
£10.99This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets – their story is the story of Britain.
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Thomas Becket
£25.00One of our most acclaimed and successful historians brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life.