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Battle Royal Hugh Bicheno

Battle Royal par Hugh Bicheno

Battle Royal Hugh Bicheno


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The first volume of a rip-roaring, two-part history of England's longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated as a medieval 'game of thrones' by a master military historian.

Battle Royal Résumé

Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1462 Hugh Bicheno

England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos. The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent feuding of his magnates, loses his mind. Disgruntled nobles back the regal claims of Richard, Duke of York, great-grandson of Edward III. The stage is set for civil war. The first volume of an enthralling two-part history of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, Battle Royal traces the conflict from its roots in the 1440s to the early 1460s - a period marked by the rise and fall of Richard of York, the deposition of Henry VI following the Lancastrian defeat at Towton, and the subsequent seizure of his throne by Richard's son Edward. Populating this late-medieval saga of ambition, intrigue and bloodshed are such fascinating characters as the vacillating Henry himself, his indefatigable queen Marguerite of Anjou, Richard of York (father of kings but never king himself), his opportunist ally Richard Neville, 'the Kingmaker', and the precociously virile Edward of York. Charting a clear course through the dynastic and factional complexities of fifteenth-century power politics, and offering crisply authoritative analysis of the key battles of the Wars of the Roses, Battle Royal is a compelling and rigorously researched account of England's longest and bloodiest civil war.

Battle Royal Avis

Compellingly told, this book brings late Medieval England thrillingly back to life in such gory detail you can almost smell the blood and muck * History of War *
Fact-packed... with the help of maps, family trees, a who's who and various appendices the excitement of the story wins through. I'm looking forward to volume two' * The Battlefields Trust *

À propos de Hugh Bicheno

Hugh Bicheno read history at Cambridge, and later joined the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He is the author of Crescent and Cross: the Battle of Lepanto, Razor's Edge: the Unofficial History of the Falklands War and Elizabeth's Sea Dogs.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR008192855
9781781859667
1781859663
Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1462 Hugh Bicheno
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20161006
400
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