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Title: Educational and entertaining!
Review: What I liked about this book was that Simon de Montfort wasn't given a whitewash like the characters Thomas More and Thomas Beckett have been given. All three men had great faults (More was a strong proponent of burning protestants at the stake; Beckett had a high martyr complex that exacerbated his problem far more than Henry ever did). Penman shows us how great a man Simon de Montfort truly was, faults and all. The accuracy and attention to detail is what makes this book truly great (although Edward was a great king in real history).
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