Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

England’s Greatest Warrior King

Nine years on the throne. One impossible victory at Agincourt against a French army many times his size. The conquest of Normandy, and a treaty that named an English king heir to the crown of France. Henry V compressed into a single short reign the most complete military and political triumph in English medieval history — and died at thirty-five with the job unfinished.

The Making of the Man

Dan Jones follows Henry from his teenage command at the battle of Shrewsbury — where an arrow in the face nearly killed him and left him scarred for life — through his apprenticeship in the hard politics of his father's usurped crown, to the cold, disciplined, pious king who bent England's entire machinery of state toward war. Jones writes with the pace of a thriller and the command of sources that made his reputation.

Jones’s Verdict

“The best biography yet of England's greatest king,” in Simon Sebag Montefiore's judgment. Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones; this is his portrait of the man medieval England itself regarded as its greatest son. New Penguin paperback edition, September 2026.

About This Edition

Author: Dan Jones
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9780593652756