Book Details

• Product code: TUDO
• ISBN: 9780230706408
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Format: Hardback
• Dimensions: 23.4cm x 15.3cm
• Book points: 5

The History of England: Tudors (Hardback)

Peter Ackroyd -

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The second volume in his masterful reference guides, Peter Ackroyd's The History of England: Tudors is both rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose. It tells the story of the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country into a Protestant superpower. The extensively researched book also tells of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome and his pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir as well as how the brief reign of Edward VI gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicsm and the stench of bonfires under 'Bloody Mary'. Readers will also find out about how the reign of Elizabeth I finally brought stability to the nation.