End of Empire: The Rise And Fall of Dynasties

The fascinatingly brutal stories of history’s real “Game of Thrones”. Where family dynasties fought for control of the empires created by great warrior kings – only to lose it all will be revealed next week. Historian David Adams crosses Europe and Asia as he investigates the warrior kings who created vast empires only for their families to later dismember the empire as they fight over the spoils. In a real “Game of Thrones” the dysfunctional families of Attila the Hun; Timur (Tamerlane the Great); Edgar, King of the English and Charlemagne manage to lose it all. In End of Empire: The Rise and Fall of Dynasties, David investigates the mystery of who murdered Edgar’s eldest son, the rightful King of England. He also looks into how a brilliant strategist like Tamerlane destroy cities, building towers of skulls of slain enemies, but not leave behind a proper succession plan?