EAGLE AND THE HART (RICHARD II AND HENRY IV) (PB)

Richard of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke were first cousins, born just three months apart. When they were still children, Richard was crowned King Richard II with Henry at his side, carrying the sword of state: a ten-year-old lord in the service of his ten-year-old king. Helen Castor tells this story of one of the strangest and most fateful relationships in English history. It is a story about power, and masculinity in crisis, and a nation brought to the brink of catastrophe.