About the Book: Tudors: Volume II
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the
transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant
superpower. It is the story of Henry VIIIs cataclysmic break with Rome, and his
relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the
brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition
of Catholicism and the stench of bonfires under Bloody Mary. It tells, too, of
the long reign of Elizabeth I, which, though marked by civil strife, plots
against the queen and even an invasion force,