HENRY V The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

Listeners who know England's King Henry V primarily through Shakespeare's history plays will be enlightened and only a little disappointed with this authenticated, unromanticized biography of the storied "warrior king." With urbane ease and a gift for telling detail, British popular historian Dan Jones guides listeners through the tangled histories of the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, and the internecine Plantagenet family. In this latest Jones focuses not on Henry's great victories over France, but on the grubby, decidedly unromantic business of transporting and maintaining a fifteenth-century army and the even trickier business of negotiating a peace settlement with the medieval French court. It's not Shakespeare, and it's not poetic. But it's every bit as compelling. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2025]