The Last Plantagenets

I was lucky enough to come across this treasure at a charity shop, and having a passionate interest in English history eagerly snapped it up. And I am glad I did. With a novelists flair , Thomas Costain creates both a detailed history of England and its monarchs from the declining years of Edward III......more

Very detailed history including that of Richard III. Part of a series by Thomas B. Costain which started in the first of the series with Geoffrey of Anjou with the feather in his cap, the "Planta Genesta" , going through King Stephen, Richard the Lion Hearted, King John, King Edward "Edward Longshan......more

Read these four books before we went to France the first time in 1974. With the planta genesta family history in my lizard brain, I noticed on the map that the route between Paris and Rouen provided, with a short detour, the opportunity to stop at the ruins of one of Richard (the Lionheart)'s castle......more

Must read for all things English. Extremely well written narrative of the lives and times of these Anglo Monarchs. Costain swallows you whole.......more

Costain employs his novelist's flair to the last (and, I think, best-known) work in his Plantagenet series. It picks up with the decline and death of both Edward III and his son the Black Prince, then moves on to a fairly lengthy but still eminently enjoyable section on Richard II. Then, of course,......more