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

by Marc Morris

Book Overview

John was dynamic, inventive and relentless, but also a figure with terrible flaws. In two interwoven stories, we see how he went from being a youngest son with limited prospects to the ruler of the greatest dominion in Europe, an empire that stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. His rise to power involved treachery, rebellion and murder. His reign saw oppression on an almost unprecedented scale: former friends hounded into exile and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605988855
• ISBN13: 9781605988856
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"