Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005GG0LTS
Publish date: September 29th 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Digital Sales
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
War,
Biography Memoir,
16th Century,
15th Century
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...
Thomas Penn's Winter King is not really a biography of Henry VII, and more a study of what he was directing his government to do in his name. (We certainly can, and do, decide what sort of king Henry was based on what he had his government get up to, however.) The organization is curious, certain...
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