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Dan Jones

    January 27, 1981

    Dan Jones is a historian and broadcaster whose works explore historical narratives with vivid detail and engaging prose. His writing delves into pivotal moments and figures, bringing the past to life for a wide audience. Through his keen journalistic eye and deep historical research, Jones crafts compelling accounts that resonate with readers seeking to understand the complexities of history. He masterfully balances scholarly rigor with accessible storytelling, making historical events feel immediate and relevant.

    Dan Jones
    Wolves of Winter
    The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
    Powers and Thrones
    The Color of Time: A New History of the World: 1850-1960
    The World Aflame
    The Colour of Time
    • The Colour of Time

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.7(218)Add rating

      'A splash of colour is all it took to bring these historic black and white photos back to vivid, breathtaking life ... Astonishing' Sun .

      The Colour of Time
    • 'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb. The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914-18 and 1939-45 and the international tensions, conflicting ideologies and malign economic forces that set them in train, but also the civil wars of the interwar period in Ireland and Spain, wars in Latin America, Britain's imperial travails in such places as Ireland, Somalia and Palestine, and events on the domestic 'fronts' of the belligerent nations. Like The Colour of Time, this is a collaboration between the gifted Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, and the leading British historian Dan Jones. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words, The World Aflame offers a moving - and often terrifying - perspective on the bloodiest century in human history. 'A new perspective on the bloodiest half-century in history' Daily Mail 'Immensely vivid' Sunday Times 'Brings history to life in breaktaking technicolour' Financial Times 'Revelatory' Daily Express 'The past - even its grimmest, darkest hours - was not in black and white' Guardian

      The World Aflame
    • The book showcases a collaboration between a talented artist and a bestselling historian, featuring two hundred photographs that capture the defining events and influential figures of the modern era. Through this visual narrative, readers are immersed in the historical significance and emotional depth of these moments, offering a unique perspective on contemporary history.

      The Color of Time: A New History of the World: 1850-1960
    • Powers and Thrones

      • 736 pages
      • 26 hours of reading
      4.4(417)Add rating

      Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.

      Powers and Thrones
    • 'A convincing picture of hard men in a hard time, Dan Jones' fiction rings with the authority of his scholarly history.' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'Absolutely fabulous. A raucous, swaggering charge through the medieval underworld. I had such a good time reading it that I never wanted it to stop.' ANTONIA FRASER 'Superb historical fiction as fresh, vivid and vital as this morning's h[Bokinfo].

      Wolves of Winter
    • The dramatic and blood-soaked story of a tumultuous chapter in British history--from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Plantagenets In this riveting follow-up to The Plantagenets, Dan Jones describes how the longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart in a brutal blood feud and succumbed to the unlikely Tudors. Treachery and intrigue ruled the land. Some of the great heroes and villains of history were thrown together in these turbulent times--from Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule marked the high point of the medieval monarchy, to Richard III, who murdered his own nephews in a desperate bid to secure his stolen crown. A long-overdue corrective to Tudor propaganda, this masterful and compulsively readable narrative dismantles the Tudors' self-serving account of what they called the Wars of the Roses

      The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
    • Shake, Muddle, Stir is a beginner’s guide to whisky and bourbon.Dan Jones teaches you how to stock your home bar, pick some of the world’s best whiskies and pull together your own infusions and syrups. Try your hand at classics like an Old Fashioned or The Sazerac, or modern hits like Bourbon Smash or The Rattlesnake.With over 40 whisky recipes, Shake, Muddle, Stir shows you just how versatile whisky is.

      Whisky: Shake, Muddle, Stir
    • A bestselling historian and a brilliant artist have combined their talents to create a stunning visual history of global war and revolution from 1914 to 1945. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral tell the epic, harrowing, and world-changing story—in narrative form with colorized images—of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the first atom bomb. The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 and the tensions, ideologies and economic forces that set them in motion, but also the revolutions in Russia; civil wars in Ireland and Spain; American interventions in Latin America, colonial wars in Morocco, Ethiopia, and Palestine; and events on the domestic ‘fronts’ of the belligerent nations. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words, The World Aflame offers a moving—and often terrifying—perspective on the bloodiest century in human history.

      The World Aflame: A New History of War and Revolution: 1914-1945
    • The Hollow Crown

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.3(367)Add rating

      The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors, from Dan Jones - the celebrated author of The Plantagenets - is an exciting, fast-paced history of the Wars of the Roses.

      The Hollow Crown