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The perfect king: the life of Edward III, father of the English nation

Ian Mortimer

PublisherJonathan Cape
PublishedSep 15, 2006
LanguageEnglish

SUMMARY:

He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, and usurped his father's throne. Yet under his rule, England experienced its longest period of domestic peace in the Middle Ages. In this first full biography of Edward III (1327-77), he emerges as the father of the English nation and the English people.