Ian Mortimer, The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330 Reviews

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Good Points: Forget the wonderfuly colourful subject matter for a moment. This is a wonderfully writen piece. With great use of timing.

Bad Points: There where no bad points

General comments: The subject matter is of course something I was already interested in, or I wouldn't have picked this book up off the shelf; but the fantastic writing and energy of the piece carried you through.
Ian Mortimer's personal twist on this old tale was as exciting as any Tom Clancy or Dan Brown novel.
It was the best peice of non fiction I've ever had the pleasure to read.
Read this book, even if, history isn't your thing. I promise you after your read it, you'll be hooked.

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As a great-grandaughter of Roger Mortimer and Isabella of France and King Edward II of England, I have extensively studied their lives. Don't let the times in which these royal women lived fool you; many of them are not as innocent as they appear to be. Roger was lied to by Isabella and she used him to suit her own selfish purposes. Isabella was very sly and cunning in her own way, but in Roger she found a man she could easily deceive, one who had the ways and means to help her accomplish her wi ...