![]() ![]() “The familiar Costain ‘touch’ with all its powers. “No man alive writes popular history with greater understanding.what he cares about is the color, drama and pageantry.the personalities, triumphs and disasters.”-New York Times He deals throughout with world figures who have kingdoms at stake.Here is an actual record of the heroism of the kings and queens of England and France, their villainies, their weaknesses, their loves and hates.”-Book-of-the-Month-Club News ![]() Costain is especially interested in personalities and motives and character. “WILD, EXTRAVAGANT, BRILLIANT, COURAGEOUS, STIRRING”-San Francisco Examiner “COLORFUL AND LUSTY”-Christian Science Monitor Here are history’s most spectacular Kings and Queens-and a brilliant new probing of the greatest mystery of all time, the death of the Princes in the Tower. Pressure of other work made it impossible, however, to produce them at the gait I had hoped to achieve. ![]() Costain’s most magnificent performance, rivaling even THE BLACK ROSE for color and drama. 'A HISTORY OF THE PLANTAGENETS 'I began these books of English history with the hope of carrying the series forward, under the general title of The Pageant of England, to a much later period than the last of the Plantagenet kings. ![]() THE LAST PLANTAGENTS-A GREAT STORYTELLER’S MOST DAZZLING BESTSELLER ![]()
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