The Wars of the Roses

Weir, Alison

ISBN 10: 0345391179 / ISBN 13: 9780345391179

Editore: Ballantine Books, New York, 1995

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DJ and boards show light shelf wear, no publisher price on front flap.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; 6.75 X 1.75 X 9.5 inches; 462 pages; "Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal House of Lancaster and York, the longest and most complex in British history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. In The Wars of the Roses, Alison Weir reconstructs this conflict with the same dramatic flair and impeccable research that she brought to her highly praised The Princes in the Tower.".

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• Titolo: The Wars of the Roses
• Editore: Ballantine Books, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0345391179
• ISBN 13: 9780345391179
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: Book Club Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good+
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good+
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Great Britain
  • HISTORY

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Riassunto

The author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII chronicles the struggles of the Lancaster and York families to control the British monarchy, while offering profiles of such figures as Katherine of Valois, Elizabeth Wydville, and Margaret of Anjou.

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d York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal House of Lancaster and York, the longest and most complex in British history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. In The Wars of the Roses, Alison Weir reconstructs this conflict with the same dramatic flair and impeccable research that she brought to her highly praised The Princes in the Tower.

The first battle erupted in 1455, but the roots of the conflict reached back to the dawn of the fifteenth century, when the corrupt, hedonistic Richard II was sadistically murdered, and Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, seized England's throne. Both Henry IV and his son, the cold warrior Henry V, ruled England ably, if not always wisely--but Henry VI proved a disaster, both for his dynasty and his kingdom.