Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King

Wildly gripping, swashbuckling, battle-scarred and blood-spattered, in equal parts ferocious, dynamic and political, intimate and humane, the best biography yet of England's greatest king.
Jones's prose hums with energy throughout, and his ability to marry realm-scale intrigue with family drama marks this out as narrative history at its best.
The king of exciting narrative history triumphs again. A masterclass in making the medieval addictively readable.
Yet another Dan Jones book that I wish I had written. One of England's greatest medieval kings gets the biography he deserves from one of our greatest medieval historians.
Splendidly readable... full of diverting incident and considered judgment... Jones is one of our liveliest historians
[A] lively retelling of Henry's remarkable story
[An] adrenalin-fuelled biography... a unique feature of this account is that half of it is devoted to Henry's formative years
With his customary combination of profound scholarship and fine narrative verve, Dan Jones brings Henry V to life better than anyone since Shakespeare himself. Here is a much more believable king - both for good and ill - than the Bard's rendition, one rooted in contemporary sources shrewdly analysed. Truly, a Henry for our times.
Shining fresh light on England's transformational warrior king, this thrilling new biography of Henry V reads like an absolute blockbuster.
A cinematic new biography... thrillingly retold by Jones
A badass history writer... to put it mildly
I felt like a time traveller fully immersed in the events described
Praise for Dan Jones:
A terrifically colourful and compelling narrative history... bustling and sizzling with life on every page