The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
by:
Ian Mortimer (author)
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, and usurped his father’s throne. Yet under his rule, England experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the Middle Ages. In this first full biography of Edward III (1327-77), he emerges as the father of the English nation and the English people.
He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, and usurped his father’s throne. Yet under his rule, England experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the Middle Ages. In this first full biography of Edward III (1327-77), he emerges as the father of the English nation and the English people.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780224073011 (022407301X)
Publish date: March 28th 2006
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Biography Memoir,
European History,
14th Century