Henry V The Astonishing Rise of England'S Greatest Warrior K

<p><b><u>A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian</u></b><br><b><br>'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' </b><i>Observer</i><br><br>HENRY 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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Written with vivid, page-turning immediacy, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian.</p>