Book description
No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain
than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very
heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber, execution site,
zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury, observatory: the Tower has been
all these things and more, standing at the epicentre of dramatic,
bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.
Setting this dramatic story firmly in the context of national - and
international - events, Nigel Jones's superb history portrays the
Tower of London not just as an ancient structure but as a living
symbol of the nation.
Nigel Jones is a former deputy editor of
History Today
and
BBC History
magazines who is now a full-time historian and biographer. He has
written books on subjects as diverse as Rupert Brooke, Patrick Hamilton
and Nazi Germany, appeared on historical documentaries on
BBC TV
and radio and written and reviewed for most national newspapers. He
conducted the author interviews for the
Daily Mail
Book Club; and reads for serialisation for the
Daily Mail
. His reviews appear frequently in the
Sunday Telegraph
,
Literary Review
and
History Today
. He lives near Brighton in East Sussex with his partner and three
children.
Tower
is his most ambitious project to date.
