Book Review: Conquest
/For thirty hard-fought years, the King of England was also the King of France - new in US bookstores is a thrilling account of those years
Read More'I am Thy Man'
/He fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
Read MoreEdward the Last
/When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.
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