`A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters & rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.` Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday `I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is descriptive, narrative & analytical. This is good history.` Gerard De Groot, The Times At Runnymede, on the banks of the River Thames, on 15 June 1215, the seal of King John was attached to the Magna Carta, & peace descended upon the l&. Or that`s what successive generations have believed. But is it true? & have we been persuaded (or persuaded ourselves) that the events of 15 June 1215 not only ended a civil war between the king & the barons but
- as if by magic
- established a British constitution beloved & copied throughout the world? Informative, entertaining & controversial, Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter challenges centuries of myth-making to demonstrate how important it is we understand the true significance of that day beside the Thames, eight hundred years ago.