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With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England — from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but fr
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- Author
- Robert Lacey
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316090391
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (67 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Great Tales From English History (Book 2) : Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and More (2005)
- حكايات عظيمة من تاريخ اللغة الإنجليزية، كتاب 2 [Arabic] (2009)
- Great tales from English history : the truth about King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart and more (2004)
- Great Tales From English History (Book 2) : Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and More (2004)
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