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The Hollow Crown
by Dan Jones
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The Hollow Crown begins with the political weakness that followed Henry V’s death and traces the struggle between Lancastrian and Yorkist claimants through deposition, restoration, rebellion and battle. Dan Jones follows Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou, Edward IV, Warwick, Richard III and the families whose shifting alliances turned disputes over government into the Wars of the Roses.
The narrative continues through Bosworth and the consolidation of Tudor rule under Henry VII, showing how marriage, propaganda and controlled violence helped a new dynasty secure the crown. The United States edition was published as The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors. Jones treats the period not as a simple contest between two houses, but as a prolonged crisis of kingship shaped by personalities, institutions and regional power.
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