HENRY V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King, by Dan Jones Why read a new, 400-page biography of England’s King Henry V? Because, writes the best-selling historian and ...

There is a Horrible Histories element to Dan Jones's book. I lost count of the number of times Henry V ordered people - women as well as men - to be put to death in beastly ways. Political and ...

Dan Jones’s superb narrative history, Henry V, stresses the great king’s piety, and how it grounded a world view that may seem alien today Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

HENRY V is best-known today thanks to Shakespeare for defeating a numerically superior French army at Agincourt. But according to historian Dan Jones, it's a miracle England's greatest medieval ...

In Jones’s telling, Henry even in adolescence was a determined military leader, upholder of the faith, and dominant figure in the court of his father, Henry IV. His own orderly reign brought ...

While Henry V is best known as the military leader who defeated the French at Agincourt, Dan Jones’s “Henry V” gives equal ...

Head of Zeus has snapped up a standalone biography of Henry V by medieval writer, historian and broadcaster Dan Jones. Non-fiction publisher Richard Milbank acquired UK, Commonwealth and ...

Dan Jones’s absorbing life of Henry V, son of Henry IV. As a 16-year-old Prince of Wales, he was in a battle against the rebel army of Harry Hotspur at Shrewsbury when he lifted the visor of his ...

BOOKS: What are you reading in text? JONES: I’m just about to finish “Annihilation” by Michel Houellebecq, whose work I’ve read all of. I quite like a bit of French misery. His work ...

Dan Jones has no desire to question Henry’s military bona fides in his new narrative history, Henry V, but he has a bone to pick with the “lopsided” coverage that the monarch typically receives.