The immediate Sunday Times bestseller.
A book of the year by The Times, BBC History Magazine, and the Daily Mail.
The British medieval historian brings to life the remarkable rise of Henry V, who survived rebellions, a near-fatal arrow wound, and a long and uncertain princely course to become England's greatest warrior king.
Henry V reigned in England for only nine years and four months, and died at just 35 years old, but he overshadowed the late medieval period and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors.
For Dan Jones, Henry V is one of the most fascinating figures of medieval history, but he is also one of the most challenging to portray. He was a harsh, sometimes brutal warrior, but he was also creative and artistic, with a bibliophile nature.
As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, quelled rebellions, and secured England's borders. However, through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of disaster in the country, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.
Dan Jones' biography of Henry V offers an unprecedented insight into the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. It is both an independent biography and a completion of Dan's series on English medieval history that began with the Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown.
Henry V is a captivating and inevitable biography of England's greatest king by the best-selling medieval historian.
Pages: 464, Year of Publication: 1203, Dimensions: 15.3x15.3cm.
