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Henry V
- The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
'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 remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. In the dark days of World War II, Henry’s victories in France were presented by British filmmakers as exemplars for a people existentially threatened by Nazism. 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 stands out for the generous amount of space it allots to the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both 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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- legge
- 13-09-24
Dan never misses
Once again, Dan never misses. terrific, easy to follow and how I like his stories being very linear .
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- hayley waterhouse``
- 22-09-24
A masterpiece as usual from Dan Jones
Any Dan Jones book is worth a listen, especially one he narrates and this is no exception. Fantastic Listen
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- Anonymous User
- 16-09-24
Everything
Dan jones at it again what a book best medieval historian out there must listen
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- CCWEST
- 18-09-24
All the bits Shakespeare missed about Henry V
A highly entertaining and informative account of the life of one of England’s greatest kings. His was a short if successful life but usually the first 2/3rds (approximately) of his life is glossed over in favour of the French campaigns. Dan Jones devotes the first half of this book to Henry’s early life and thus a more rounded albeit slightly flawed character emerges. Much anticipated and did not disappoint
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- Well That Aged Well
- 19-09-24
Masterpiece of a biography
Dan Jones did it again. Been waiting for this book since May, and it did not dissapoint. Henry V is a fascinating, and compelling character, that is absoloutley worth learning more about. Top notch researched, and storytelling
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- Michael Thompson
- 22-09-24
Finally! Dan Jones’ Henry V
Just brilliant! One of the greatest warrior kings of England (if not the greatest) life written and told by Dan Jones is a win win! I loved it!
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