My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Dan Jones about his history of the Crusades as told through the lives of the men and women involved with it. Enjoy!
What is there new to say about one of the most frequently written about events in human history? To his credit Dan Jones makes no grandiose claims about a fresh interpretation, but instead approaches the story from the standpoint of some of the key individuals involved: men and women who played a ro...
This is a review of an advance reader's copy (ARC) provided by Viking Books through the Goodreads Giveaway program.News stories about the 800th anniversary a couple months ago attracted me to this book. I mean I was already vaguely aware it was forced on the hated King John. Plus the Bill of Rights ...
Full disclosure—I undoubtedly read this book too soon after finishing The Tudors. While the overlapping content is minimal, and the authors differ somewhat stylistically, both books are broad sweeping histories featuring lots of kings and queens (many of whom shared the same names). Given that this ...
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones It's no secret that George R. R. Martin based much of his world's politicking on the Plantagenet period.What I learned from this book: the Plantagenets were so batshit crazy that they make the situations in Game of Thrones (ASoIaF) look comparatively mundane.To start wi...
As with his earlier volume, The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England, Jones has developed narrative nonfiction covering a complicated era of history and made it a pleasure to read. He clearly establishes that the Wars of the Roses were about so much more than who had the stron...
Dan Jones has done something with this book that is not usually achieved. He has taken almost three centuries of history and made them accessible and understandable to the non-historian. His style of narrative nonfiction was at times as captivating as any novel with brilliant analysis of what drove ...
bookshelves: history, net-galley, autumn-2013, plantagenet-1154-1485, medieval5c-16c, britain-england, families, france, e-book, published-2012 Read from November 25 to 29, 2013 From the description: England’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations...
I am a self proclaimed history geek. Although my first love was, and always will be, Historical Fiction, over the years I have developed an intense love affair with many well written History books of the non-fiction variety. I have said many time, on here no less, that a good Historical Fiction bo...
This is just so boring - it reads like a text book for twelve year olds. It'll stay on my shelves as a reference book but in all honesty there is nowt on this dry level that Wiki cannot supply me with.1 of: Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 [Hardcover:] By: Dan JonesCondition: NewSold by...
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