A vast and brilliant panorama of love and intrigue, passion and power-told by Costain, the incomparable storyteller at his best. Here is the drama of the men and women of one powerful family who sought to sweep the whole world before them..."e;BRILLIANT...SWIFT-MOVING...FULL OF ACTION, RICH IN COLOR"e;-Henry Seidel Canby, Book-of-the-Month Club News"e;To this Costain has brought all the skill of a prime storyteller. He riots amid the actual happenings in perhaps the most richly dramatic and romantic country we know...A thrilling narrative...history told with all the interest found only in a great novel."e;-Salt Lake City Tribune"e;Crowded with epochal events and grandly heroic personalities...much bloodshed and battle and violence and suffering...lively, fascinating"e;-Orville Prescott, New York Times"e;The glorious pageant of England...the most exciting of all stories."e;-Christian Herald

A vast and brilliant panorama of love and intrigue, passion and power-told by Costain, the incomparable storyteller at his best. Here is the drama of the men and women of one powerful family who sought to sweep the whole world before them..."e;BRILLIANT...SWIFT-MOVING...FULL OF ACTION, RICH IN COLOR"e;-Henry Seidel Canby, Book-of-the-Month Club News"e;To this Costain has brought all the skill of a prime storyteller. He riots amid the actual happenings in perhaps the most richly dramatic and romantic country we know...A thrilling narrative...history told with all the interest found only in a great novel."e;-Salt Lake City Tribune"e;Crowded with epochal events and grandly heroic personalities...much bloodshed and battle and violence and suffering...lively, fascinating"e;-Orville Prescott, New York Times"e;The glorious pageant of England...the most exciting of all stories."e;-Christian Herald