Henry V

A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' ObserverHenry 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 creativ