Wildly gripping, swashbuckling, battle-scarred and blood-spattered, in equal parts ferocious, dynamic and political, intimate and humane, the best biography yet of England's greatest king.

Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity

Jones's prose hums with energy throughout, and his ability to marry realm-scale intrigue with family drama marks this out as narrative history at its best.

The Telegraph

The king of exciting narrative history triumphs again. A masterclass in making the medieval addictively readable.

Lucy Worsley

Yet another Dan Jones book that I wish I had written. One of England's greatest medieval kings gets the biography he deserves from one of our greatest medieval historians.

Dan Snow

Splendidly readable... full of diverting incident and considered judgment... Jones is one of our liveliest historians

The Observer

[A] lively retelling of Henry's remarkable story

The Times