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Bicheno, Hugh.
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Lancaster, House of.
York, House of.
Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461.
Great Britain -- History -- Edward IV, 1461-1483.
Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- 15th century.
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Bicheno, Hugh.
Lancaster, House of.
York, House of.
Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461.
Great Britain -- History -- Edward IV, 1461-1483.
Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- 15th century.
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Battle
royal
: the
Wars
of the
Roses
,
1440-1462
/ Hugh Bicheno.
by
Bicheno, Hugh.
Pegasus Books, 2017.
Call #:
942.04 B583b
Subjects
Lancaster, House of.
York, House of.
Great Britain -- History --
Wars
of the
Roses
, 1455-1485.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461.
Great Britain -- History -- Edward IV, 1461-1483.
Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- 15th century.
ISBN:
9781681773063 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Wars
of the
Roses
,
1440-1462
.
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description:
xxxi, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Previously published: London : Head of Zeus, 2015.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-352) and index.
Contents:
Passionate princesses -- House of Lancaster -- House of Beaufort -- House of Valois-Anjou -- House of York -- Faction and feud -- Defeat and humiliation -- Henry and Richard -- House of Neville -- Marguerite -- Mitre and crown -- Richard -- Henry -- Coup d'état -- Marguerite's counter-coup -- Lord of Calais -- Here be dragons -- Marguerite and Henry -- Entr'acte : the English way of war -- Marguerite's army -- Lancaster resurgent -- Warwick's apotheosis -- Betrayal -- Marguerite and son -- Richard's humiliation -- Edward of March -- The bubble reputation -- Two kings -- Knight's gambit -- Endgame -- Coda : checkmate -- Appendix A. English peerage, 1440-62, by date of creation -- Appendix B. English peerage, 1440-62, alphabetical -- Appendix C. Archbishops and bishops, 1440-62 -- Appendix D. Beauchamp inheritance.
Summary:
"The dynastic
wars
fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a two-volume history of the
Wars
of the
Roses
. 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 dukes, is losing his mind. Disgruntled nobles support the regal claims of Richard, Duke of York, great-grandson of Edward III. The stage is set for civil war.
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 VI 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 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 dynamic and rigorously researched account of England's longest and bloodiest civil war. Hugh Bicheno graduated from Cambridge and later joined the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He is the author of Crescent and Cross: The
Battle
of Lepanto 1571, Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War, Elizabeth's Sea Dogs, and Blood
Royal
: the
Wars
of the
Roses
, 1462-1485"--Provided by publisher.
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