Tower

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.