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by Thomas Penn For some reason I expected this to be Historical Fiction, but it turned out to be History. It's about the Wars of the Roses and the Brothers from the York dynasty who might have filled the place that the Tudor family does in history instead, if it hadn't been for in-fighting. Ther...
After reading Thomas Penn's Tudor England oeuvre (aka this book), I am now substantially less impressed by the imagination of George R.R. Martin because *Holy Toledo Batman* this stuff like really happened! Having been MIA from the Land of Reads and Reviews for a while, I'm admittedly not writing...
It took me a while to plough through this book. I had to take quite a few notes about some of the people involved because some of them tended to come up rather sporadically. While reading, I found myself rather annoyed at the manner in which Penn appeared to jump around with the timeline. Once I got...
I must admit that before I read this, all I really knew about Henry VII was that he came before Henry VIII and after Henry VI. The Winter King digs deeply into the unsettled origin of the Tudor period and Henry VII's precarious reign. It explores the cold avarice of the king, his dreams of dynast...
Winter King is an in-depth biography of Henry VII. I found this to be a valuable and well-written resource. It took me a while to get through it because it is so packed with information. It is a book that I will go back to many times. This was not a regurgitation of rumors and myths about Henry V...
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