Fire & Blood

With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally
bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this is the first volume of the
definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only
family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on
Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the
Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations
of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil
war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so
deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three
dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential
chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more
than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley.
Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The
World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of
Targaryen history is revealed.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones,
giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and
always fascinating history of Westeros.