[close] The first popular biography of Edward I in a generation introduces a major new historian.

Few English kings reigned for as long as Edward I, or achieved as much as he achieved. Fewer still can claim to have altered the destiny of a country so profoundly; even today we are living with the consequences of Edward’s ideas about the proper shape of the British Isles.

This immaculately researched but popular portrait of an extraordinary king, presents a sweeping panorama of the medieval world that he helped create. Edward I: The Domination and Destruction of Great Britain proclaims the arrival of a talented new historian. [close]