


This four-volume series was one of the inspirations for Game of Thrones, according to an interview with G. You will see also the strong and continuing fight for human rights as typified and brought into being by such farseeing and important documents as the Domesday Book, the Treaty of Wallingford, the Charter of Henry I, the Constitutions of Clarendon, and the Magna Charta.-from the Dustcover. The conquerors themselves take form and substance under the skillful pen of the author William the Conqueror, Henry I and his Good Queen Maude, Henry II, Thomas à Becket, John, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard Coeur de Lion, and the others all live again, love again, and fight for power. The story, first of the Costain histories which will form The Pageant of England, begins with the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 and closes with the end of the reign of John in 1216, when the full merging of Norman and Saxon had taken place and the conquest was complete. The Chord of Steel: The Story of the Invention of the Telephone
