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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Skidmore, Chris, 1981-     Subjects     Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485.     Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.     Bosworth Field, Battle of, England, 1485.     Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.     Great Britain -- History -- Richard III, 1483-1485.     Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Skidmore, Chris, 1981-       by title:      Bosworth : the birth...       by call number:      942.05 S628b     Search the Web     Skidmore, Chris, 1981-     Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485.     Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.     Bosworth Field, Battle of, England, 1485.     Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.     Great Britain -- History -- Richard III, 1483-1485.     Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.       MARC Display

Bosworth : the birth of the Tudors / by Chris Skidmore. by Skidmore, Chris, 1981- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. Call #: 942.05 S628b Subjects Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485.   Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.   Bosworth Field, Battle of, England, 1485.   Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.   Great Britain -- History -- Richard III, 1483-1485.   Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603. ISBN:  9780312541392 (US hc.) 0312541392 (US hc.) 9780297863762 (hc.) 0297863762 (hc.) Alternate title:  Birth of the Tudors Rise of the Tudors Description:  xxi, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Fortune's wheel -- To conquer or die -- Exile -- Usurpation -- Rebellion -- The rat, the cat and the dog -- A confederacy of rebels -- The spiral of decline -- March to war -- Secret friends -- The Battle of Bosworth -- Our victorious field -- Reward, retribution and reconciliation -- Bosworth rediscovered. Summary:  "On the morning of 22 August 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a 28-year-old Welshman who had just arrived back on British soil after fourteen years in exile. Yet this was to be a fight to the death -- only one man could survive; only one could claim the throne. It would become one of the most legendary battles in English history: the only successful invasion since Hastings, it was the last time a king died on the battlefield. Much more than the account of the dramatic events of that fateful day in August, this is a tale of brutal feuds and deadly civil wars, and the remarkable rise of the Tudor family from obscure Welsh gentry to the throne of England -- a story that began sixty years earlier with Owen Tudor's affair with Henry V's widow, Katherine of Valois. Drawing on eyewitness reports, newly discovered manuscripts and the latest archaeological evidence, Chris Skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world in an epic saga of treachery and ruthlessness, death and deception and the birth of the Tudor dynasty"--P. [2] of cover. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 942.05 S628b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 942.05 S628b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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