Positively the best history series I've read on some of the most fascinating players who ruled England with varying effectiveness in the Middle Ages. The writing is fluid and companionable with a quality that seems to drop the reader into the action. This is not dry history; this is clear, bright history like it should be presented to anyone with an interest in some strong personalities who lived during what seems like the foggy past but who are brought to life by Costain's pen.

Highly recommended for fans of historians like Barbara Tuchman and biographer/historians, Walter Isaacson and Robert K. Massie. ( )

An enticing introduction to those most fascinating of English rulers, the Plantagenets. These volumes, together with the historical novel, "Katherine", by Anya Seton, created a lifelong interest in English history for me. Thoroughly engrossing. ( )

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