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 ...

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 ...

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.