Fire and Blood: The inspiration for HBOs House of the Dragon (A Song of Ice and Fire) Martin George R. R. (2024)

Fire and Blood is the inspiration for HBO and Sky TVs Emmy-nominated House of the Dragon. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, settles on Dragonstone. This first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens begins with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and recounts the generations who fight to hold it, leading to the civil war that nearly destroys their dynasty. Related by a learned maester of the Citadel, this chronicle explores the Dance of the Dragons, the dangers of Valyria after the Doom, Maegor the Cruels worst crimes and life in Westeros when dragons rule the skies. The book includes more than eighty new black-and-white illustrations by Doug Wheatley and presents the dynamic, often bloody and always fascinating history of Westeros with the scope and grandeur of Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.