Fire and Blood. Three Hundred Years Before "Game of Thrones" (A History of the Targaryens). George R.R. Martin

The acclaimed author of A Song of Ice and Fire brings the fascinating history of the Targaryens to life. Centuries before the events of Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the only dragon lord to survive the Fall of Valyria, made Dragonstone their home. Fire and Blood tells the story of this house from the time of the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, the creator of the Iron Throne, to the civil wars that nearly split the dynasty.
What really happened during the Dragonfall? Why did visiting Valyria after the Fall become deadly dangerous? What were Maegor the Furious' worst crimes? What was life like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are just a few of the questions answered in this chronicle, written by the learned Maester of the Citadel and illustrated by Doug Wheatley.
"Fire and Blood", which is not inferior in scale to "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon, is the first volume of an exhaustive two-volume chronicle of the Targaryens, which will allow the reader to take a new look at the changeable, often bloody, but invariably bright history of Westeros.