Author: STARKEY, DAVID.
Title: Magna Carta The True Story Behind The Charter.
Description: Demy 8vo; pp. [viii], 285; illustrated with 16 pages of coloured plates, several b/w. text illustrations, notes on sources, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; Hodder & Stoughton; 2015. The book paints a vivid portrait of the years 1215-1225, ten revolutionary years of huge significance that produced not one but three charters. A story of treachery and idealism, politics and peace-making that is surprising and enthralling and helps us understand the true significance of that day beside the Thames, eight hundred years ago.

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