Book Review: The Iron King By Maurice Druon

George RR Martin claims that the inspiration for Game of Thrones was a series of novels which began to be published in 1955 called ‘‘The Accursed Kings’’ by French writer Maurice Druon. Having just finished the first book ‘‘The Iron King’’ I can certainly see the similarity, indeed, my copy which I picked up on Ebay for £4, features two pages of blurb b…