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Michael Jones

Biography

Michael Jones

Michael Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History. He is the author of eight previous books, including most recently THE KING'S GRAVE: The Search for Richard III; a series of works on World War Two’s eastern front culminating with TOTAL WAR: From Stalingrad to Berlin; and BOSWORTH 1485: Psychology of a Battle, regarded as a seminal work on Richard III and the battle of Bosworth. Jones lives in England.

Michael Jones

Books by Michael Jones

After Hitler: The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
by Michael Jones - History, Nonfiction

On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in western Europe until May 8th, and in Russia a day later. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame? AFTER HITLER shines a light on 10 fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the 20th century.

Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England
by Michael Jones - History, Nonfiction

On August 22, 1485, at Bosworth Field, Richard III fell, the Wars of the Roses ended, and the Tudor dynasty began. The clash is so significant because it marks the break between medieval and modern. Yet how much do we really know about this historical landmark? Michael Jones uses archival discoveries to show that Richard III's defeat was by no means inevitable and was achieved only through extraordinary chance.

The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
by Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, and Michael Jones - History, Nonfiction

Philippa Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins’ War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.