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Author Jones, Dan, 1981-

Title The Wars of the Roses : the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors / Dan Jones.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, [2014]
©2014

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Description xxiii, 392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index.
Contents "King of all the world" -- "We were in perfect health" -- "Born to be king" -- "Oweyn Tidr" -- "My Lord of Suffolk's good lordship" -- "A dear marriage" -- "Away, traitors, away!" -- "Then bring in the duke of York" -- "Smitten with a frenzy" -- "Princess most excellent" -- "Suddenly fell down the crown" -- "Havoc" -- "The noble and the lowly" -- "Diverse times" -- "Final destruction" -- "To execute wrath" -- "The only imp now left" -- "Judge me, O Lord" -- "War or life" -- "Envy never dies" -- "Blanche Rose."
Summary The best-selling author of The Plantagenets traces the 15th-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families. Includes six maps and four genealogies.
The crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. In this follow-up to The Plantagenets, historian Dan Jones describes how the longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains of history were thrown together in these turbulent times, from Joan of Arc to Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt marked the high point of the medieval monarchy, and Richard III, who murdered his own nephews in a desperate bid to secure his stolen crown. This was a period when headstrong queens and consorts seized power and bent men to their will. With descriptions of the battles of Towton and Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was slain, this narrative history revels in bedlam and intrigue.
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
Tudor, House of.
Plantagenet, House of.
Plantagenet, House of. (OCoLC)fst00218202
Tudor, House of. (OCoLC)fst00213879
Wars of the Roses (Great Britain : 1455-1485) (OCoLC)fst01355312
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1399 - 1485
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780670026678 (hardcover)
0670026670 (hardcover)
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