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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
2 reviews
frantically's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.0
This was quite clearly named wrongly — we get very little on the White Ship tragedy itself and this book is moreso a biography on Henry I. and a few chapters on the anarchy after his death. The biographical part was very well done and I feel like I really got to know Henry, not just as a ruler but as a person. I could've done away with the anarchy part, though, it was too short to really show all the different political happenings and their complexity. Like others, I didn't know Spencer worked as a historian but I was pleasantly surprised :)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Sexism and Gore
Minor: Violence and Rape
srm's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, and War
Minor: Death, Sexism, Suicide, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Rape, Violence, Grief, and Murder
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