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The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds Hardcover – October 22, 2013

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (October 22, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1250044103
  • ISBN-13: 978-1250044105
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
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47 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Interesting and exciting
By Ionia Martin TOP 1000 REVIEWER on October 22, 2013
Format: Hardcover
I, like millions of others, watched the telly special about Richard III and the discovery and subsequent actions taken with his remains with rapt attention. I was very excited when I saw this book.

After reading this, the excitement has not diminished. Philippa Langley and her co-author do an excellent job of painting a different portrait of Richard than the skulking, hunched, maniacal figure that Shakespeare and Tudor history have made popular in the eyes of the general public.

Before I get into the finer points of this book, may I take a moment to congratulate the author on her determination to do the impossible. Through sensitive situations and hurdle after hurdle she persevered, bringing history to life in this century in a very real, very physical way. Incredible.

Now on to the book. The King's Grave is more than just a simple story about an archeological dig or a great figure in history. This book is very personal to the author and that much is clear through her writing. The book alternates between retelling the story of Richard's fight against the House of Tudor and the more current efforts to restore his body to a rightful place of honour.

I was impressed by the amount of information in this book and by the way the authors delivered it. I was never bored or threatening to skim through chapters as is often the case with historical books of any length. I particularly enjoyed the sections of the book that focused on identification of the remains and the scientific techniques used to do so.

Personally, I like the idea that Richard III may have been the chivalrous and noble warrior that we want to think of when we picture a former king of England.Read more ›
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
A Personal History
By Saundra Mitchell on October 25, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Though this book contains a brief history of Richard III's ascent to the throne and then ignominious descent at Bosworth Field, it's more a story of co-author Philippa Langley's journey to find the remains of a fallen and maligned king. As a modern Ricardian, Langley's determination to find the remains of Richard III is breathtaking. It's a testament to what individuals can achieve with enough grit, sincerity (and the backing of an international organization dedicated to your cause.)

In her chapters, Langley talks about her personal journey as the excavation of a car park in Leicester uncovers the remains of Richard III. It's obvious that she believes nothing but good of the last Plantagenet King (going so far as to argue-- in text-- over whether Richard was responsible for the deaths of the Princes in the Tower.) Her reaction to discovering that Richard III suffered scoliosis is heartbreaking as it unfolds: it's a moment where hard scientific fact crashes into her personal dogma surrounding Richard III. Not everything in the history books was Tudor propaganda, after all.

Because it's a personal account, Langley also includes her feelings, intuitions, psychological profiles and, bizarrely, a graphologist's interpretation of who Richard III was as a man. It's during these sections that readers must remember that this isn't a history of Richard III. It's the story of a woman in the 21st century, reaching back to try to uncover what she believes is the truth about a king from the 15th century.

Jones' chapters provide an overview of Richard III's rise to the throne, though it often argues with itself in the attempt to rehabilitate a reputation that was no doubt darkened by Shakespeare-- but was also aided by Richard III himself.Read more ›
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Unearthing Richard
By Sarah-Hope on November 29, 2013
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Like much of the world, I followed the discovery of the remains of Richard III with great interest. I read a fair bit of Tudor biography so, as the King whose fall led to the Tudor triumph, Richard is a compelling character—particularly when one adds in the long-fought battle over his depravity and/or virtue.

I’ve just finished the first book-length work on this archaeological project, The King’s Grave, authored by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones. Langley, chair of the Richard III Society, coordinated the dig after a “revelation” of sorts convinced her that she had identified the location of Richard’s burial. She is not an archaeologist herself, but pulled together a fine team of experts for the project. Michael Jones is the author of a key pro-Richardian history, which provided much of Langley’s initial inspiration. (While the two are co-authors, I will often refer to Langley as author in the course of this review because much of the book is written in her voice.)

For centuries, Richard’s story has been carried along on two very different tracks. After Richard’s defeat and Henry VII’s rise to power, any number of scholars were eager to ingratiate themselves with the new king by writing biographies denigrating Richard. As a result of this historical bandwagon, Langley and Jones tell us, “By the time of Shakespeare this propaganda had reached its zenith. Richard had now become a crouching hunchback, whose bent and distorted body mirrored the hideous depravity of his crimes. By then, the king’s actual body, buried hastily in Leicester after the Battle of Bosworth, had disappeared from view.Read more ›
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Not such a bad guy.

Always been interested in Richard since seeing the Olivier version in high school. Glad to read it was all a myth perpetrated by literature. Read more

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A new View On Richard III and Finding his Remains

While visiting Leicester this past month, I happened on this book and spent most of my flying time engrossed in it. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Brad4d
Interesting!

Interesting description of the search for King Richard's body alternating with a retelling of his life. The author is sympathetic but not too much so.

Published 8 months ago by Dewey R Tipton
Philippa finds her bin-Laden

"It was a large open space for seventy or more vehicles, surrounded by Georgian buildings with a large red-brick Victorian wall running north to south straight ahead of me. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Mr. Joe
Fact is Better than Fiction

I cannot get enough of this fascinating story. Too bad there is so much in-fighting.

Published 8 months ago by VIone
Lost For 527 Years! And No - He Wasn't a Hunchback!

It was Philippa Langley who was the heart and soul of the modern search for the bones of Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England. Read more

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Amazing journey with the author through her innate feelings about finding Richard the 3rd and her knowledge of his life and times from a "Ricardian" perspective. Read more

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