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Powers and Thrones

A New History of the Middle Ages

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By: Dan Jones
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From the bestselling author of The Templars, Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.

Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones' trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting – or stealing – the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations – Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople – and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and women.

This is a book written about – and for – an age of profound change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here?

"A terrifically colourful and compelling narrative history... A hugely impressive achievement, bustling and sizzling with life... This is now simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages' Sunday Times

A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator, Books of the Year

'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year

'An amazing masterly gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'A badass history writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan©2021 Dan Jones (P)2021 Head of Zeus Ancient Civilization Europe Great Britain World Middle Ages Thought-Provoking Imperialism Ancient History England Crusade
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So much information, so we’ll delivered. Learnt so much. Seems like an almost impossible task to cover such a vast period of time, but this book manages it and is also very well narrated by the author

Excellent

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Even though it was a vast subject matter Dan Jones has worked his magic again. Broken down into manageable chunks. Informative with Dan's usual engaging style.
Would recommend any day of the week.

Dan Jones on form once again

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As ever Dan Jones conveys a compelling listen with such clarity and conviction that when you finish you’re immediately looking for the next one!

Excellent listen.

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really enjoyed this book it was very informative and give me a good overview of History and how things fit together. example it was interesting to see how Plague and natural disaster affected history and had profound knock-on effects causing some Empires to fall while others using the opportunity afforded take advantage and become Nations and empires themselves. I highly recommend it if you love history

brilliant

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loved it. goes through a lot of historical events. nice length but still feels like I need to go further in learning about some things mentioned. so it makes a great overview of a huge section of time.

great overview of a lot of history

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