Thomas B. Costain

Ride With Me

Against a sweeping panorama of England and the Continent--and the muted thunder of far-off war--Thomas B. Costain has etched in the glass of history a moving tale of adventure and enduring love.Francis Ellery is a young, courageous newspaper editor who pu

The Silver Chalice

The Silver Chalice is an English language historical novel by Thomas B. Costain. It's the fictional story of the making of a silver chalice to hold the Holy Grail (itself here conflated with the Holy Chalice) & includes 1st century biblical & hist

Below the Salt

The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor.The last Plantagenet monarchs governed

The Black Rose

The Darkness & the Dawn

In Darkness the major figure lurking in the background is Attila the Hun. The story centers upon a man named Nicolan who has been sold into slavery to the Romans but escapes to Attila and helps the Hun in an effort to avenge himself on the Romans. There i

The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)

THE THREE EDWARDS, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave his c

High Towers

The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)

THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272.During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw specta

The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)

Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foun