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Henry V

The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King

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A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller

The UK's bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life the astonishing rise of Henry V
, who survived rebellion, a near-fatal arrow wound and a lengthy and precarious princely apprenticeship to become England's greatest warrior king.

'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' Observer

Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond.

The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors. Shakespeare's version of Henry V saw his youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship, and in the dark days of World War II, Henry's victories in France were recounted in British propaganda. Churchill called Henry 'a gleam of splendour in the dark, troubled story of medieval England', while for one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, 'the greatest man who ever ruled England'.

For Dan Jones, Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened, sometimes brutal, warrior, yet he was also creative and artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family members, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered.

As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions and secured England's borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.

Dan Jones's life of Henry V provides unprecedented insight into the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both a standalone biography and a completion of Dan's sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England's greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

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Erscheinungsdatum
09. Oktober 2025
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
464
Autor/Autorin
Dan Jones
Verlag/Hersteller
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kartoniert
ISBN
9781804541944

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Dan Jones

Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. His non-fiction books, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Plantagenets, The Templars, Powers and Thrones and Henry V. His fiction includes the acclaimed Essex Dogs trilogy, set during the Hundred Years War, which concludes with the 'salty, action-packed saga' Lion Hearts.


Dan has written and presented numerous TV series including Secrets of Great British Castles, Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets and London: 2000 Years of History. He has also appeared in programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky Atlantic and History, and hosts the podcast This is History. For a decade Dan was a weekly columnist for the Evening Standard; he has also contributed to The Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, GQ, The Spectator, New Statesman, BBC History Magazine, History Today, Tatler and Literary Review. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.


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Wildly gripping, swashbuckling, battle-scarred and blood-spattered, in equal parts ferocious, dynamic and political, intimate and humane, the best biography yet of England's greatest king. Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity

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