The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
5 best books like The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great (Benjamin R. Merkle): The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta, The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330
| Author | Richard Brooks |
| ISBN | 1849085501 |
This is the fascinating story: William Marshal who negotiated the brutal realities of medieval warfare and the conflicting demands of chivalric ideals, and who against the odds defeated the joint French and rebel forces in arguably the most important battle in mideeval English history - overshadowing...
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 Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
| Author | Christopher Skaife |
| ISBN | 1443455938 |
For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens...
| 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...
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330
| Author | Ian Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0224062492 |
When one thinks of a scandalous love affair in English monarchial history; the immediate response is Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. Believe it or not, a century prior, a similar indignity played out in medieval England but with a queen taking the lead. The queen – Queen Isabella, consort to King Edward...
