Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London. This item is unavailable.Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London

A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it.

Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the UK: The Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.

Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national--and international--events. In a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs, he captures the Tower in its many changing moods and its many diverse functions.

Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of london not just as an ancient structure, but as a living symbol of the nation of Great Britain.

Nigel Jones is CEO of the Information Assurance Advisory Council, a not-for-profit network and strategic research organization bringing industry, government, and academic sectors together to work on information society challenges and opportunities. He is a visiting fellow at King's College London, Department of Defence Studies. He runs his own consultancy, training, and research business specializing in the information and human dimensions of security and conflict. Previously he was at Cranfield University at the UK Defence Academy, where he developed the cyber postgraduate programme. He also directed the Technology Strategy Board's (now Innovate UK) Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network.