Iron, Fire, and Ice: the Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones

✍ Scribed by West, Edith Sharon Hardman

• Book ID: 100680261
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 371 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2019.
• ISBN: 9004306455

✦ Synopsis

A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father's death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the time than most men. She too is battling for the inheritance of her young son, not yet fully grown but already a sadist who takes delight in watching executions.

Sound familiar? It may read like the plot of Game of Thrones. Yet that was also the story of the bloodiest battle in British history, fought at the culmination of the War of the Roses. George RR Martin's bestselling novels are rife with allusions, inspirations, and flat-out copies of real-life people, events, and places of medieval and Tudor England and Europe. The Red Wedding? Based on actual events in Scottish...
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Single Author : Ed West
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