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No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London – a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury, observatory: the Tower has been all these things and more, standing at the epicentre of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.Setting this dramatic story firmly in the context of national – and international – events, Nigel Jones’s superb history portrays the Tower of London not just as an ancient structure but as a living symbol of the nation.

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Weight 0.349 kg
Dimensions 2.8 × 13 × 19.7 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

464
Publisher

Year Published

2012-6-7
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099537656
About The Author

Nigel Jones is a former deputy editor of History Today and BBC History magazines who is now a full-time historian and biographer. He has written books on subjects as diverse as Rupert Brooke, Patrick Hamilton and Nazi Germany, appeared on historical documentaries on BBC TV and radio and written and reviewed for most national newspapers. He conducted the author interviews for the Daily Mail Book Club; and reads for serialisation for the Daily Mail. His reviews appear frequently in the Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review and History Today. He lives near Brighton in East Sussex with his partner and three children. Tower is his most ambitious project to date.

A riveting, pacy and vivid chronicle of the Tower's turbulent past
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In the hands of Nigel Jones we have an excellent contemporary guide, providing the right mix of scholarship and storytelling, insight and narrative pace, to offer a cracking history of the Tower.

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