# Tower

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- Book: [Tower](https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-jones/tower) ([Tower.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-jones/tower.md))
- Authors: [Nigel Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/nigel-jones)
- Publisher: windmill_books
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-765-6
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2012-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury, observatory: the Tower has been all these things and more, standing at the epicentre of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years. Setting this dramatic story firmly in the context of national - and international - events, Nigel Jones's superb history portrays the Tower of London not just as an ancient structure but as a living symbol of the nation.