Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queen Who Made England, a #1 international bestseller and New York Times bestseller, and Wars of the Roses, which charts the story of the fall of the Plantagenet dynasty and the improbable rise of the Tudors. He writes and presents the popular Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles and appeared alongside George R.R. Martin in the official HBO film exploring the real history behind Game of Thrones. He was closely involved in the British Library's landmark unification of the four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta to mark the charter's eight hundredth anniversary. He is also the author of Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution and is currently working on a history of the Knights Templar due out in September 2017.
"Lively and excellent."
--The New York Times "By putting the Magna Carta in its proper
historical context, the brilliant young historian Dan Jones
triumphantly answers the questions he poses in his Introduction,
about how it came to be granted, what it meant at the time, and
what it should mean to us today."
--Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Napoleon
"Excellent and very well-crafted."
--The New York Review of Books "Dan Jones has an enviable gift for
telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to
consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of
representative government."
--Antonia Frasier "Lively and clear-eyed."
--The London Review of Books "An insightful, satisfying history of
a beloved. . . icon of freedom."
--Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Wars of the Roses "Tautly
structured, elegantly written, and finely attuned to the values and
sensibilities of the age . . . The best introduction to the
conflict currently in print."
--The Mail On Sunday "Jones is a born storyteller, peopling the
terrifying uncertainties of each moment with a superbly drawn cast
of characters and powerfully evoking the brutal realities of civil
war. With gripping urgency he shows this calamitous conflict
unfold."
--The Evening Standard "Edifying and utterly entertaining. . .
Jones tells a good story . . . His delightful wit is as ferocious
as the dreadful violence he describes.
--The Times (London) Praise for The Plantagenets
"A real life Game of Thrones, As dramatic and blood-soaked as any
work of fantasy. Like the medieval chroniclers he quarries for
juicy anecdotes, Jones has opted for a bold narrative approach
anchored firmly upon the personalities of the monarchs themselves
yet deftly marshaling a vast supporting cast of counts, dukes, and
bishops. . . . Fast-paced and accessible, The Plantagenets is
old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by
those who like their history red in tooth and claw. Jones tackles
his subject with obvious relish."
--The Wall Street Journal "Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep,
compelling in its storytelling, this is narrative history at its
best. A thrilling dynastic history of royal intrigues, violent
skullduggery, and brutal warfare across two centuries of British
history."
--Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of Jerusalem: The
Biography "Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows,
revealing them in all their epic heroism and depravity. His is an
engaging and readable account--itself an accomplishment given the
gaps in medieval sources and a 300-year tableau--and yet researched
with the exacting standards of an academician. The result is an
enjoyable, often harrowing journey through a bloody, insecure era
in which many of the underpinnings of English kingship and
-Anglo-American constitutional thinking were formed."
--The Washington Post "Some of the greatest stories in all of
English history . . . rich in pageantry and soaked in blood."
--Lewis Lapham "Delicious . . . Jones has produced a rollicking,
compelling book produced a rollicking, compelling book about a
rollicking, compelling dynasty, one that makes the Tudors who
followed them a century later look like ginger pussycats. . . . The
Plantagenets is told with the latest historical evidence and rich
in detail and scene-setting. You can almost smell the sea salt as
the White Ship sinks, and hear the screams of the tortured at the
execution grounds at Tyburn."
--USA Today "Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering
medieval pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the
Plantagenets with confidence. This riveting history of an
all-too-human ruling House amply confirms the arrival of a
formidably gifted historian."
--Sunday Telegraph
"Lively and excellent."
The New York Times
"By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the
brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the
questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be
granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us
today."
Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Napoleon
"Excellent and very well-crafted."
The New York Review of Books
"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while
at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like
liberty and the seeds of representative government."
Antonia Frasier
"Lively and clear-eyed."
The London Review of Books
"An insightful, satisfying history of a beloved. . . icon of
freedom."
Kirkus Reviews
Praise for The Wars of the Roses
"Tautly structured, elegantly written, and finely attuned to the
values and sensibilities of the age . . . The best introduction to
the conflict currently in print."
The Mail On Sunday
Jones is a born storyteller, peopling the terrifying uncertainties
of each moment with a superbly drawn cast of characters and
powerfully evoking the brutal realities of civil war. With gripping
urgency he shows this calamitous conflict unfold.
The Evening Standard
"Edifying and utterly entertaining. . . Jones tells a good story .
. . His delightful wit is as ferocious as the dreadful violence he
describes.
The Times (London)
Praise for The Plantagenets
A real life Game of Thrones, As dramatic and blood-soaked as any
work of fantasy. Like the medieval chroniclers he quarries for
juicy anecdotes, Jones has opted for a bold narrative approach
anchored firmly upon the personalities of the monarchs themselves
yet deftly marshaling a vast supporting cast of counts, dukes, and
bishops. . . . Fast-paced and accessible, The Plantagenets is
old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by
those who like their history red in tooth and claw. Jones tackles
his subject with obvious relish."
--The Wall Street Journal
Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its storytelling,
this is narrative history at its best. A thrilling dynastic history
of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery, and brutal warfare across
two centuries of British history.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of Jerusalem: The
Biography
Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows, revealing
them in all their epic heroism and depravity. His is an engaging
and readable account itself an accomplishment given the gaps in
medieval sources and a 300-year tableau and yet researched with the
exacting standards of an academician. The result is an enjoyable,
often harrowing journey through a bloody, insecure era in which
many of the underpinnings of English kingship and Anglo-American
constitutional thinking were formed."
The Washington Post
Some of the greatest stories in all of English history . . . rich
in pageantry and soaked in blood.
Lewis Lapham
Delicious . . . Jones has produced a rollicking, compelling book
produced a rollicking, compelling book about a rollicking,
compelling dynasty, one that makes the Tudors who followed them a
century later look like ginger pussycats. . . . The Plantagenets is
told with the latest historical evidence and rich in detail and
scene-setting. You can almost smell the sea salt as the White Ship
sinks, and hear the screams of the tortured at the execution
grounds at Tyburn."
USA Today
Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval
pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with
confidence. This riveting history of an all-too-human ruling House
amply confirms the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.
Sunday Telegraph"
Praise for "Magna Carta
"
"Lively and excellent."
" The New York Times"
"By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the
brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the
questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be
granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us
today."
Andrew Roberts, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Storm of
War "and "Napoleon"
"Excellent and very well-crafted."
" The New York Review of Books"
"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while
at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like
liberty and the seeds of representative government."
Antonia Frasier
"Lively and clear-eyed."
" The London Review of Books"
"An insightful, satisfying history of a beloved. . . icon of
freedom."
" Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for "The Wars of the Roses"
"Tautly structured, elegently written, and finely attuned to the
values and sensibilities of the age . . . The best introduction to
the conflict currently in print."
"The Mail On Sunday "
Jones is a born storyteller, peopling the terrifying uncertainties
of each moment with a superbly drawn cast of characters and
powerfully evoking the brutal realities of civil war. With gripping
urgency he shows this calamitous conflict unfold.
"The Evening Standard "
"Edifying and utterly entertaing. . . Jones tells a good story . .
. His delightful wit is as ferocious as the dreadful violence he
describes.
"The Times "(London)
Praise for "The Plantagenets""
"
A real life "Game of Thrones," As dramatic and blood-soaked as any
work of fantasy. Like the medieval chroniclers he quarries for
juicy anecdotes, Jones has opted for a bold narrative approach
anchored firmly upon the personalities of the monarchs themselves
yet deftly marshaling a vast supporting cast of counts, dukes, and
bishops. . . . Fast-paced and accessible, "The Plantagenets" is
old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by
those who like their history red in tooth and claw. Jones tackles
his subject with obvious relish."
--The Wall Street Journal
Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its storytelling,
this is narrative history at its best. A thrilling dynastic history
of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery, and brutal warfare across
two centuries of British history.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of "Jerusalem: The
Biography"
Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows, revealing
them in all their epic heroism and depravity. His is an engaging
and readable account itself an accomplishment given the gaps in
medieval sources and a 300-year tableau and yet researched with the
exacting standards of an academician. The result is an enjoyable,
often harrowing journey through a bloody, insecure era in which
many of the underpinnings of English kingship and Anglo-American
constitutional thinking were formed."
"The Washington Post"
Some of the greatest stories in all of English history . . . rich
in pageantry and soaked in blood.
Lewis Lapham
Delicious . . . Jones has produced a rollicking, compelling book
produced a rollicking, compelling book about a rollicking,
compelling dynasty, one that makes the Tudors who followed them a
century later look like ginger pussycats. . . . The Plantagenets is
told with the latest historical evidence and rich in detail and
scene-setting. You can almost smell the sea salt as the White Ship
sinks, and hear the screams of the tortured at the execution
grounds at Tyburn."
" USA Today"
Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval
pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with
confidence. This riveting history of an all-too-human ruling House
amply confirms the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.
" Sunday Telegraph"
The single best one-volume general introduction to the Plantagenets
ever written. . . . Jones proves time and again that he s alive to
the inherent drama of his subject. . . . The kings and queens of
Jones book seem larger than life because, one strongly suspects,
life was larger while they were in it. They brawled and laughed and
rode and loved and warred (and occasionally peaced) as though the
world itself depended on what they did. And they were right about
that.
"Open Letters Monthly""
Praise for "Magna Carta
"
"By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the
brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the
questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be
granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us
today."
Andrew Roberts, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Storm of
War "and "Napoleon"
"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while
at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like
liberty and the seeds of representative government."
Antonia Frasier
"Lively and clear-eyed."
" The London Review of Books"
"An insightful, satisfying history of a beloved. . . icon of
freedom."
" Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for "The Wars of the Roses"
"Tautly structured, elegently written, and finely attuned to the
values and sensibilities of the age . . . The best introduction to
the conflict currently in print."
"The Mail On Sunday "
Jones is a born storyteller, peopling the terrifying uncertainties
of each moment with a superbly drawn cast of characters and
powerfully evoking the brutal realities of civil war. With gripping
urgency he shows this calamitous conflict unfold.
"The Evening Standard "
"Edifying and utterly entertaing. . . Jones tells a good story . .
. His delightful wit is as ferocious as the dreadful violence he
describes.
"The Times "(London)
Praise for "The Plantagenets""
"
A real life "Game of Thrones," As dramatic and blood-soaked as any
work of fantasy. Like the medieval chroniclers he quarries for
juicy anecdotes, Jones has opted for a bold narrative approach
anchored firmly upon the personalities of the monarchs themselves
yet deftly marshaling a vast supporting cast of counts, dukes, and
bishops. . . . Fast-paced and accessible, "The Plantagenets" is
old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by
those who like their history red in tooth and claw. Jones tackles
his subject with obvious relish."
--The Wall Street Journal
Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its storytelling,
this is narrative history at its best. A thrilling dynastic history
of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery, and brutal warfare across
two centuries of British history.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of "Jerusalem: The
Biography"
Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows, revealing
them in all their epic heroism and depravity. His is an engaging
and readable account itself an accomplishment given the gaps in
medieval sources and a 300-year tableau and yet researched with the
exacting standards of an academician. The result is an enjoyable,
often harrowing journey through a bloody, insecure era in which
many of the underpinnings of English kingship and Anglo-American
constitutional thinking were formed."
"The Washington Post"
Some of the greatest stories in all of English history . . . rich
in pageantry and soaked in blood.
Lewis Lapham
Delicious . . . Jones has produced a rollicking, compelling book
produced a rollicking, compelling book about a rollicking,
compelling dynasty, one that makes the Tudors who followed them a
century later look like ginger pussycats. . . . The Plantagenets is
told with the latest historical evidence and rich in detail and
scene-setting. You can almost smell the sea salt as the White Ship
sinks, and hear the screams of the tortured at the execution
grounds at Tyburn."
" USA Today"
Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval
pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with
confidence. This riveting history of an all-too-human ruling House
amply confirms the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.
" Sunday Telegraph"
The single best one-volume general introduction to the Plantagenets
ever written. . . . Jones proves time and again that he s alive to
the inherent drama of his subject. . . . The kings and queens of
Jones book seem larger than life because, one strongly suspects,
life was larger while they were in it. They brawled and laughed and
rode and loved and warred (and occasionally peaced) as though the
world itself depended on what they did. And they were right about
that.
"Open Letters Monthly""
Praise for "Magna Carta
""By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the
brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the
questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be
granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us
today."
Andrew Roberts, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Storm of
War "and "Napoleon"
"Lively and clear-eyed."
" The London Review of Books"
"An insightful, satisfying history of a beloved. . . icon of
freedom."
" Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for "The Wars of the Roses"
"Tautly structured, elegently written, and finely attuned to the
values and sensibilities of the age . . . The best introduction to
the conflict currently in print."
"The Mail On Sunday "
Jones is a born storyteller, peopling the terrifying uncertainties
of each moment with a superbly drawn cast of characters and
powerfully evoking the brutal realities of civil war. With gripping
urgency he shows this calamitous conflict unfold.
"The Evening Standard "
"Edifying and utterly entertaing. . . Jones tells a good story . .
. His delightful wit is as ferocious as the dreadful violence he
describes.
"The Times "(London)
Praise for "The Plantagenets""
"
A real life "Game of Thrones," As dramatic and blood-soaked as any
work of fantasy. Like the medieval chroniclers he quarries for
juicy anecdotes, Jones has opted for a bold narrative approach
anchored firmly upon the personalities of the monarchs themselves
yet deftly marshaling a vast supporting cast of counts, dukes, and
bishops. . . . Fast-paced and accessible, "The Plantagenets" is
old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by
those who like their history red in tooth and claw. Jones tackles
his subject with obvious relish."
--The Wall Street Journal
Outstanding. Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its storytelling,
this is narrative history at its best. A thrilling dynastic history
of royal intrigues, violent skullduggery, and brutal warfare across
two centuries of British history.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of "Jerusalem: The
Biography"
Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows, revealing
them in all their epic heroism and depravity. His is an engaging
and readable account itself an accomplishment given the gaps in
medieval sources and a 300-year tableau and yet researched with the
exacting standards of an academician. The result is an enjoyable,
often harrowing journey through a bloody, insecure era in which
many of the underpinnings of English kingship and Anglo-American
constitutional thinking were formed."
"The Washington Post"
Some of the greatest stories in all of English history . . . rich
in pageantry and soaked in blood.
Lewis Lapham
Delicious . . . Jones has produced a rollicking, compelling book
produced a rollicking, compelling book about a rollicking,
compelling dynasty, one that makes the Tudors who followed them a
century later look like ginger pussycats. . . . The Plantagenets is
told with the latest historical evidence and rich in detail and
scene-setting. You can almost smell the sea salt as the White Ship
sinks, and hear the screams of the tortured at the execution
grounds at Tyburn."
" USA Today"
Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval
pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with
confidence. This riveting history of an all-too-human ruling House
amply confirms the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.
" Sunday Telegraph"
The single best one-volume general introduction to the Plantagenets
ever written. . . . Jones proves time and again that he s alive to
the inherent drama of his subject. . . . The kings and queens of
Jones book seem larger than life because, one strongly suspects,
life was larger while they were in it. They brawled and laughed and
rode and loved and warred (and occasionally peaced) as though the
world itself depended on what they did. And they were right about
that.
"Open Letters Monthly""
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