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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Dan Jones

Start date: April 1, 2024

Finish date: May 31, 2024

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Sep 22, 2016 Laurel Bradshaw rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, non-fiction, history, england, plantagenets, chunky-450

Very engaging! Covers 200 years of English history from Henry II through Richard II. Very much a book about the kings, their wars, and accomplishments told by a master story teller. Jones manages to deconstruct the myths and legends, while incorporating the latest research and insights into their lives and personalities. We get the good, the bad, and the ugly about these kings and yet Jones still manages to make them human beings. As bad as some of these kings were, they still managed to create ...more

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Jul 17, 2019 Susan Liston rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2019-non-fiction, history, royal-history, own-it, british-isles

This is an excellent book, which doesn't mean that it didn't take me fifty million years to read it, but it's a lot of information to digest, and as one review points out, there are a LOT of Matildas. I am allegedly descended from Edward I, via granddaughter Margaret and Piers Gaveston, so it was of particular interest to read about my great great a thousand times great grandpappys. ...more

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