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Book SynopsisAmbitious... With meticulous research and in lively style, Jones presents us with the man beyond the Shakespeare character.—The New York Times
“The best biography yet of England’s greatest king.—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, he is 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. For one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, “the greatest man who ever ruled England.&rdq
