The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings Who Invented England

A very enjoyable popular history and hard to be too critical. As the cover blub says “action packed...” Be that as it may there are a couple of spelling mistakes, hardly the authors fault, and the lack of footnotes make me find this style of history less enjoyable than it might have been.

A pity really as there is a magnificent Further Reading chapter at the end and the Conclusion was also a good read. In the end though I just find it hard to go past a chapter starting with a sentence that starts with “Coventry buzzed with excitement” Really? Who said? How do you know?