Edward II: The Unconventional King

5 best books like Edward II: The Unconventional King (Kathryn Warner): The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King, King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE

Author	Simon Schama
ISBN	1847921329

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes...

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

Author	Marc Morris
ISBN	0091796849

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and...

The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King

Author	Ian Mortimer
ISBN	0224073001

An author with a strong track record now tackles the turbulent reign of Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king.

By 1405, King Henry IV had already survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign. Henry had not always been so unpopular. The son of John of Gaunt,...

King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta

Author	Marc Morris
ISBN	1605988855

A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Marc Morris.

King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment...

Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

Author	Donald Spoto
ISBN	0815411839

Spoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents. The book reveals new details of every aspect of her life, from her guarded childhood,...