18 must-read nonfiction books like Brothers York by Thomas Penn

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Brothers York

By: Thomas Penn

4.24

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, an…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Brothers York by Thomas Penn , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

By: Dan Jones

4.27

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

"Extravagance was a political necessity."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."

-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

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2. The Princes in the Tower

By: Alison Weir

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • 15th century

3. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

By: Helen Castor

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left… read more

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4. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones

By: Thomas Asbridge

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - th… read more

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5. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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6. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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7. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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9. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
Cover of The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream by Charles     Spencer

10. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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11. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
Cover of The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay

12. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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13. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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14. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case

By: Philippa Langley

3.67

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
Cover of Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren  Johnson

15. Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By: Lauren Johnson

4.33

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

First-born son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House Lanc… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
"As is often the case in politics, the truth was less important than public perception."

-Lauren Johnson, Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

Cover of The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen  Carr

16. The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

By: Helen Carr

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all th… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
Cover of Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon

17. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

By: Emma Southon

4.22

Format: 285 pages, None

They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy

18. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.38

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of t… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"...if the Greeks joined together in the Panhellenic cause and attacked Persia to take land and wealth. Once conquered, Asian barbarians would work the field and tend the cattle as slaves or helot-lik…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

"The Macedonians and Greek has been raised to despise Persians and all Asians as barbarians, fit only to be slaves, and the defeat of Darius and his great armies can only have reinforced their immense…"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

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19. Brothers York

By: Thomas Penn

4.24

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, an… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Penn's Brothers York book and Thomas Penn's Brothers York

  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
  • 15th century
Cover of Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore

20. Richard III: Brother, Protector, King

By: Chris Skidmore

3.70

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The last Plantagenet king remains one of England's most famous and controversial monarchs. There ar… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • 15th century
Cover of Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan

21. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War

By: Jon Grinspan

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

18 best-selling history books like Brothers York by Thomas Penn

Transform Your Habits

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Princes in the Tower

Alison Weir

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

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11 Top audiobook books like Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson

Transform Your Habits

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Tom Holland

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs Trilogy)

Dan Jones

4.16

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